English

Staberdeen

Blend of standard + Aberdeen.

Frankish *standahard

Old French estandart ‘gathering place’

Middle English standard ‘a standard’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘to, at’

Proto-Celtic *ad- ‘to, at, towards’

Proto-Celtic *adberos ‘mouth, confluence (of a river)’

Pictish *ᚐᚁᚓᚏ ‘confluence’

Today it means

name Standard Life Aberdeen, a Scottish investment company.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Staberdeen