Etymology

Blantyre

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Today it means: A town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6857). Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic Blantaidhr
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  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromBlantaidhr
  2. English todayBlantyre

From Scottish Gaelic Blantaidhr, from Cumbric *blain (“summit, end”) + *tir (“land”), comparable to Welsh blaen + tir.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.