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Durham
c. 1000,
Dunholm
"city on a hill," a merger of Old English
dun
"hill" (see
down
(n.2)) and Scandinavian
holmr
(see
holm
). The change from
-n-
to
-r-
is a result of Norman confusion (see
Shrewsbury
). As a breed of cattle, by 1810.
