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forest of lyme

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English

Syllables
forest of -ly-me
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”). However, note the objections of Coates (2003), who argued for a derivation from, via Proto-Brythonic, Latin līmes (“boundary”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Forest of Lyme (canonical)

Questions

What does forest of lyme mean?
A forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.
Where does forest of lyme come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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