Fife

Fifer fife English <dab!> Etymology en cel Borrowed from en gd Fìobha, said to date back to the eponym en Fib, one of the seven sons of the legendary en xpi - king Cruithne.Calise, J. M. P. (2002). Pictish Sourcebook: Documents of Medieval Legend and Dark Age History. United Kingdom: Greenwood Press, p. 225 Possibly related to the xpi Uip attested in the Pictish kings lists, in turn possibly related to the Latin la Vepogenus, in which the first element is the en cel-bry-pro - predecessor of Welsh cy gwep face.Rhys, Guto (2015) Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic. PhD thesis. Pronunciation en /ˈfʌɪf/ Scotland en /ˈfaɪf/ RP en aɪf 1 Proper noun en traditional county cc/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. II 4 993 Ross: Will you to Scone?Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife. en council area cc/Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996. en place c/USA: en ucomm co/McCulloch County s/Texas, named after Fife in Scotland. en ucomm co/Goochland County s/Virginia, named after the owner of the village site. en city co/Pierce County s/Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife. en. Synonyms en Fifeshire older usage Derived terms en Fife Lake en Fife Ness Translations county Irish: ga Foibhe m Scottish Gaelic: gd Fìobha m See also en Fyfe References Anagrams en effi fief en Geographic and cultural areas of Scotland