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Yell

proper nouncommon in dialogue

The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.

  2. 2

    An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States, named after Archibald Yell.

  3. 3

    A surname.

Etymology

The name of the Shetland Island is from Pictish, cognate with Welsh iâl (“pastureland”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *yalom (“clearing”).

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