English
Lothian
Lothian comes from Old English Loðene.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Loðene
- Englishearliest quotation 1952Lothian
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150Loðene
- Englishearliest quotation 1952Lothian
Earliest quotation: 1952, H. A. Vallance, The Waverley Route: “As the Lothian Plain is reached, collieries and slag…”
The story
Mills, in A Dictionary of British Place Names, named after "one Leudonus".
Every English word from Old English Loðene
Today it means
name An area and former region of Scotland, including Edinburgh.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English Loðene / Lothian