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Nairn

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Nairn , town (1991 pop. 7,721), Highland, N Scotland, at the mouth of the Nairn River on Moray Firth. It is a tourist resort and fishing harbor. Other industries include dairy and crop farming and whiskey distilling. Granite is quarried. Cawdor Castle, the legendary scene of the murder of Duncan by Macbeth , is located nearby.

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Nairn

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Nairn, UK, USA UK (Scotland): formerly Inuernaren and Narne ‘Mouth of the (River) Nairn’ with the river's pre‐Celtic Indo‐European name possibly meaning ‘Penetrating One’. The initial part of the original settlement name came from inbhir ‘river mouth’.

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Nairn

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Nairn Highland. Inuernaren c.1195, Narne 1382. ‘Mouth of the River Nairn’. The river has a Celtic or pre-Celtic name possibly meaning ‘penetrating one’. The first form above has Gaelic inbhir, ‘river mouth’.

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A. D. MILLS. "Nairn." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Nairn.html

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Nairn

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Nairn former county, Scotland: see Nairnshire .

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