Wetherlam
hill or mountain · Westmorland and Furness · 763m
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Old NorseAI-generated
Wetherlam is likely named from the Old Norse for a sheep or wether, combined with a word for a slope or hill. It suggests a hill where sheep grazed.
Word origins
- Wether
- Old Norsewether, castrated ram(from veðr "wether")
- lam
- Old Norseslope, hill(from hlamm "slope, hill")