Etymology

cairns

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Today it means: A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns. Full definition →

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  1. Scots · borrowed fromcairn
  2. English todayCairns

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.

Words from the same roots

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