Where does “Tweed” come from?

Tweed (German) comes from English Tweed — a river in the Scottish Borders area which for part of its length forms the border between Scotland and England. It flows into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth, England.

Tweed (German): tweed cloth

Definitions

  1. tweed cloth

Ancestry of “Tweed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishTweeda river in the Scottish Borders area which for part of its length forms the border between Scotland and England. It flows into the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth, England
Every word from English Tweed
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