Mendip Hills

from Middle English Mendepe, possibly via Anglo-Norman *Mendepe. The exact origin is uncertain; possibly a hybrid of Proto-Brythonic *mönɨð, (“mountain”) and Old English yppe, (“upland hill” or “hunting upland”), possibly reconstructed as Old English *myned-yppe. Alternatively, a medieval folk form includes Middle English Myne-deepes (“mine-deeps”). + hills. For a further alternative to the above speculative conjectures, please see a remotely possible comparison in the 'discussion' page.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mĕn'dĭp hĭlz, IPA^(key): /mɛn.dɪp hɪlz/
• Rhymes: -ɪlz

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Mendip Hills

1. A geographic area consisting of a mountain range of limestone hills in Somerset, England.

• Mendips

• Mendip (local government district)
• mendipite

• Coates, Richard (1986). "Mendip". Nomina. 10: 5–9.
• Freeman, D. (2021)."Canon and King’s Pyon and Pyon Wood, Herefordshire: Pre-English Hill-Names?." Journal of the English Place-Name Society*, vol. 53, 2021, pp. [page 14]. (relevence due to 'Proto-Brythonic *mönïð* and its possible borrowing into Old English as *myned*'). Available at: [1]
• Mendip hills National Landscape: [2]