Anglesey

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专有名词
  1. An island and traditional county at the northwestern extremity of north Wales. It is separated from Caernarfonshire on the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. The county was merged into Gwynedd in 1974.
  2. A unitary authority in Wales, Isle of Anglesey County Council, created in 1996 when it was separated from Gwynedd.
    — Owain Roberts, from Anglesey, was sent a bill for £4,300 by Vodafone.
  3. A marquisate in the peerage of the United Kingdom.

词源

Possibly of Old Norse origin, from Ǫngullsey (“hook island”) (ǫngull + ey) or Ǫnglisey (“Ǫngli's island”), the name Ǫngli itself being a variant of Ǫngull and from the former noun. Folk etymology confused the name with that of the Angles. More at Anglesey.
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