Caithness

//ˈkeθnɛs// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A Scottish earldom.
  3. 3
    A type of cheese from Caithness in Scotland.

Etymology

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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Ord of Caithness

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