English Explanatory Dictionary

Pen-y-ghent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A mountain in Craven district, North Yorkshire, in the Yorkshire Dales of England.

Word forms

Pen-y-ghent

Etymology

From Cumbric *penn (“top, summit”) + Cumbric *ı (“the, of the”) + either Cumbric *ceint (“border”) or Cumbric *gınt (“heathen, gentile”).

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