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cefn

Pronunciation: /kɛvn/

“cefn” is a Welsh word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. back, rear
  2. back, support
  3. ridge (ploughed land between two parallel furrows)
  4. vertical furrow, fissure or fault in a rock
  5. garden bed
  6. furlong (unit of length equivalent to a stadion)
  7. middle, center

Etymology

From Middle Welsh keuen. Related to Breton kein (“back”), Cornish keyn (“back”), Gaulish Cebenna (“ridge, height”) (whence French Cévennes).

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