Brewer's: Witney

(Oxfordshire) is the Anglo-Saxon Witen-ey, the island of Wisemen—i.e. of the Witenagemot or national parliament.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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