Etymology

Kinnear

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Today it means: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic ceann
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromceann“headland”
  2. English todayKinnear

Scottish habitational surname from Kinneir, in Fife, apparently from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“headland”) + iar (“west”).

Words from the same roots

Scottish Gaelicceann all →

KincaidKinnairdKinghornKinlocheil

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.