Cainey
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Cainey is a settlement in the civil parish of Knighton on Teme in the English county of Worcestershire. Its name is first attested around 1230–40 as Caweneie, etymologised by Allen Mawer and Frank Stenton as an Old English personal name Caua compounded with the noun eg, here meaning 'low marshy ground'.[1]: 52–53
References
[edit]- ^ A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Worcestershire, English Place-Name Society, 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927).
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