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Snot

Discussion of the name

Snot is an Old English masculine name probably derived from an OE *snot ‘nose, snout’ related to gesnot ‘mucus’.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Snot 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in of this name in DB. Further evidence for its use in pre-Conquest England comes from the place-names Nottingham and Sneinton (Watts 2004: 445, 557).

Bibliography

Watts 2004: V. Watts, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 445, 557.

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Snot

Spellings in Exon: Esnotus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Snot

  Phillimore edition: Snot

  Alecto edition: Snot

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 17,54	Vill Stancombe	DB Spelling Snot	Holder 1066 Snot 'of Stancombe'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Judhael of Totnes	1086 Subtenant Turgis 'of Bovey'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Snot 2 - Snot ‘of Stancombe’ (Devon), fl. 1066