Etymology

Stirling

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Today it means: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996, with its administrative centre in the city. Full definition →

Middle Scots Stirveling ← Early Scots Strivelin ← Old Irish sreb
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  1. Old Irish · derived fromsreb
  2. Early Scots · derived fromStrivelin
  3. Middle Scots · borrowed fromStirveling
  4. English todayStirling

Borrowed from Middle Scots Stirveling, from Early Scots Strivelin, Strivelyn, likely from Old Irish sreb, srib (“stream”) + linn (“pool, lake”). Cognate with Old French Estrivelin, Middle Welsh Ystriflin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.