Etymology

keir

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic ciar ← Old Norse [Term?] ← Proto-Brythonic *kaɨr
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The story

  1. Scots · derived fromkeir
  2. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*kaɨr“a fort”
  3. Old Norse · derived from[Term?]
  4. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromciar“dark”
  5. English todayKeir

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dark”) or Old Norse [Term?]. Hanks (2006) derived the name from Pictish/Proto-Brythonic *kaɨr (“a fort”), possibly via Scots keir.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Brythonic*kaɨr all →

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