Jarrow

Meaning

Proper Noun

• town South Tyneside (metropolitan borough) Tyne and Wear (county) north-east England (constituent country), located on the River Tyne .

Origin

• From Middle English Jarwe, Jaruum, from Old English In Ġyrwum (Latin: In Gyruum), dative plural of ġyru, from Proto-Germanic *gurwijō from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-. Related to gore, from Proto-Germanic *gurą ("half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure"). The dʒ sound in Middle English j derives from a nasal before palatalised ġ (compare singe).