Kerr
/kɜː//kɛr/
词源链
- 苏格兰盖尔语Scottish Gaelic
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- 德语German
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- 爱尔兰语Irish
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- 英语English
Kerr
词源说明
As an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, from Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr.
As an Irish surname, variant of Carr.
As a German surname, Americanized from Kehr.
As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mac gille chéir (“son of the dusky laid”), from ciar (“black”).
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1A surname.
- 2A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
- 3A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States.