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Dunsmuir
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English
Etymology
From en ang - personal name ang *Dynn, genitive case ang *Dynnes + en sco muir moor.
Alternatively from either:
en gd dùn fort, fortress + gd muir sea, ocean, 'the fort by the sea'.
en owl Din Maur great fort.
The collative s in the proposed Celtic sources could come via Scots on analogy with words such as Dunsmore or Dunston, in which cases the -s is a remnant of a genitive case ending.
The town in California is named after San Francisco businessman Alexander Dunsmuir.
Proper noun
en city co/Siskiyou County s/California c/US.
en habitational Scots.