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Gaelic |
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Valley of the River Kent |
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Welsh |
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Exalted effigy |
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English |
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Valley of the River Kent |
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(KEN dal) [Guide] |
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From the place name Kendal in Cumbria, recorded in 1095 as Kircabikendala ‘village with a church in the valley of the Kent river’.
It is also an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted’, ‘high’ and delw ‘image’, ‘effigy’. |
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