Portishead

English

Etymology

From the genitive singular of Old English port (“harbor”), portes + hēafod (“head”), meaning "the harbor headland".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔːtɪsˈhɛd/

Proper noun

Portishead

  1. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676).
    • 1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
      Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.

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