Worthing
/ˈwɜːr.ðɪŋ/noun
A seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England.
Did you know?Worthing is a real English place name, but its exact earliest form is uncertain; the ending -ing often points to an Old English place-name formation meaning “the people of” or “associated with,” not a mystical root.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
Worthingas
“The people associated with or descended from a man named Wurth/Wyrth, or a settlement of that group”
Domesday period
Middle English/Latin record
Ordinges
“A recorded medieval form of the place name in Latinized documentary spelling”
12th–13th Century
Middle English
Wurðing / Worthing
“The settlement name in evolving English spellings”
Modern English
English
Worthing
“The town name in its standard modern form”