Gosnell
English
Etymology
From earlier Gosnold, possibly from a former place called Gosenwold, a compound of Old English gōs (“goose”) + Middle English wold (“plain”), from Old English weald, Anglian Old English wald.[1]
Proper noun
Gosnell
- A surname.
References
- Mark Antony Lower (1860), “Gosnell”, in Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes: G. P. Bacon, page 134, column 2.