The story
- Scottish Gaelic · derived fromruadh“red”
- English todayRuthven
Possibly from Scottish Gaelic ruadh (“red”) + mhaighin (“place”). Some places with this name may be from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh rhudd (“red”) + Welsh maen (“stone”).
Words from the same roots
Scottish Gaelicruadh all →
roy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.