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Dunfermline

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Etymology

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From Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phàrlain, the first element being from dùn (“fortification”), and the rest of uncertain origin, possibly from an alteration of the river Lyne Burn, from linne (“waterfall, pool”) + bùrn (“water”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dʌnˈfɜːɹmlɪn/

Proper noun

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Dunfermline

  2. A city and former royal burgh of Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0987); The former capital of Scotland.
    • 1902, James Miller Guinn, Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California: Containing a History of Southern California from Its Earliest Settlement to the Opening Year of the Twentieth Century; Also Containing Biographies of Well-known Citizens of the Past and Present‎[1], Chapman Publishing Company, page 471:
      Referring to the genealogy of the Dobie family, we find that it can be traced back to the sixteenth century, when the Dobies of Dobie's Lane were prominent shipbuilders in the seaport town of Leith, Scotland. Dr. Dobie [William Gowan Dobie, D.M.] was born in the ancient Scotch city of Dunfermline, where his father, William, and grandfather were both damask manufacturers, while his mother, Agnes, was a daughter of James Mathewson, who was one of the pioneer manufacturers of damask.
  4. A former local government district in Fife Region (which superseded the historic county) between 1975 and 1996.
  6. A village in Fulton County, Illinois, United States, first settled by people from Dunfermline, Fife.

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References

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  1. ^ Taylor and Márkus, The Place–Names of Fife: Volume One, pp.309–310.
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