Fife

See also: Fifer and fife

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Fìobha, said to date back to the eponym Fib, one of the seven sons of the legendary Pictish king Cruithne.[1] Possibly related to the Uip attested in the Pictish kings lists, in turn possibly related to the Latin Vepogenus, in which the first element is the Proto-Brythonic predecessor of Welsh gwep (“face”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɪf/
  • Rhymes: -aɪf

Proper noun

Fife

  1. A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
  2. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
  3. A place in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, named after Fife in Scotland.
    2. An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, named after the owner of the village site.
    3. A city in Pierce County, Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife.
  4. A surname.

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References

  1. ^ Calise, J. M. P. (2002). Pictish Sourcebook: Documents of Medieval Legend and Dark Age History. United Kingdom: Greenwood Press, p. 225
  2. ^ Rhys, Guto (2015) Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic. PhD thesis.

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