Caithness

专有名词
中文释义
美 /ˈkeɪθnɪs/|/keɪθˈnɛs/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A historical county in the far north of Scotland, which was abolished and merged into Highland Region in 1975, which became the Highland council area in 1996.
  2. A Scottish earldom.
  3. A type of cheese from Caithness in Scotland.

词源

The placename is of Pictish origin, named after a tribe called the Catti, with the common Old Norse suffix -ness (“headland”). The tribe name is of uncertain origin, but compare *katus (“battle”).
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