Westmorland

English

Etymology

From Old English folk name Westmōringas (“the people west of the moors”) + land.

The civil parish in New Brunswick is named analogously to Westmorland County.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstmələnd/

Proper noun

Westmorland

  1. A former county in northwestern England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria.
  2. A civil parish of Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  3. A city in Imperial County, California, United States.
  4. A surname.

Derived terms

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.