Georna
Georna is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name containing georn (yearn).
Reference:
Georna [Hugh Smith 1928 English Place-Name Society 5: 321].
Stem:
georn = yearn [John Beames 1872 A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India 1: 126].
Suffix:
— a= termination of pet names, such as Cutha for Cuthwine or Cuthwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].
Explanation:
“*Georna is a short form of names like Friþu-, Heregeorn” [Eilert Ekwall 1936 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place-Names, 1st edition, page 254].
Evidence:
The place-name Gerneham, recorded in 1086, is believed to mean “Homestead or village of a man named *Georna” [David Mills 1991 A Dictionary of English Place Names, 1st edition, page 188].
