Fife
English
editEtymology
editFrom Scottish Gaelic Fìobha, said to date back to the eponym Fib, one of the seven sons of the legendary Pictish king Cruithne.[1] From Scottish Gaelic fiùbhaidh (“hero, valiant warrior”) from fiù (“worth”).
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editFife
- A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 993:
- Ross: Will you to Scone?
Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
- A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
- A place in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, named after Fife in Scotland.
- An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, named after the owner of the village site.
- A city in Pierce County, Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife.
- A surname.
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edit- Fifeshire (older usage)
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editReferences
edit- ^ Calise, J. M. P. (2002). Pictish Sourcebook: Documents of Medieval Legend and Dark Age History. United Kingdom: Greenwood Press, p. 225
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