Torpenhow Hill
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Torpenhow Hill is an alleged hill in Cumbria whose name is supposed to be a quadruple tautology. While there is a village called Torpenhow, the supposed "Torpenhow Hill" is a ghost word, used as an extreme example of the real tendency of tautological placename etymologies (of the type River Avon "river river", Laacher See "lake lake", etc.)
Tor, pen, and how were said to all mean "hill" in different languages (torr and penn from British, how(e) from Old Norse haugr), so that a literal translation of "Torpenhow Hill" would be "Hill-hill-hill Hill".
Tor, pen, and how were said to all mean "hill" in different languages (torr and penn from British, how(e) from Old Norse haugr), so that a literal translation of "Torpenhow Hill" would be "Hill-hill-hill Hill".
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpenhow_Hill
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Coordinates: 54°44'22"N 3°14'7"W
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