Strachan

//stɹɔn// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO674922). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname. countable, uncountable

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"“Existing buildings already have a lot of embodied energy that has gone into creating them, and as long as we can get them a new lease on life, then that can be a very sustainable thing to do,” says Strachan Forgan, an architect and principal at Solomon Cordwell Buenz."

Etymology

The village is named with Scottish Gaelic srath (“river valley”) + eachan (“foal”). The surname could either derive from the placename or from an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Sruitheáin (“descendant of Sruitheán”), a personal name from sruith (“sage elder”) + -án (“diminutive suffix”).

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