Etymology

Cowdenbeath

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Today it means: A town and burgh in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1691). Full definition →

Scots Coudenbeith ← Scottish Gaelic beith
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived frombeith
  2. Scots · borrowed fromCoudenbeith
  3. English todayCowdenbeath

Borrowed from Scots Coudenbeith, from Cowden + Scottish Gaelic beith (birch).

Words from the same roots

Scottish Gaelicbeith all →

Beith

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.