Re: [tied] Digest Number 591

--- In cybalist@..., ravi9@... wrote:

>
> Does " Kent " in England have any connection ?
>

I don't know for sure but I don't think so. I found the following on
the internet:

At http://perso.libertysurf.co.uk/pbenyon/Misc/Etymology.html

Kent < Gaelic Ceann "head, top"

At http://www.english.uga.edu/~mathelie/mathii3.html

The area of Kent was the homeland of a tribe called
the "Cantii"

At http://latin.about.com/library/wordstories/blcanter.htm

Kent < a Celtic word meaning "border" which is seen in the
Welsh "cant".

German has Kante "edge, border, corner, margin" but I don't know if
there's any connection.
-David