Strathmore
He loved the name Strathmore. The sound of it, the shape of it, the imagining of it being of a beautiful place filled with green open spaces and an abundance of wildlife that survived in its changing climate. So he looked into the name structure. The following is what he found.
Strath is one of those beautifully old landscape-words whose meaning is still visible in the land itself. It comes from early Celtic languages and ultimately from a Proto‑Indo‑European root meaning “to spread out.”
Core meaning: A strath is a wide, broad, flat-bottomed river valley, in contrast to a glen, which is narrow and steep-sided.
More (and Morris) can trace its etymological strand back to the Latin Maurus, meaning “Moorish, dark, swarthy.”
Morris has several well‑documented origins:
From the personal name Maurice (Norman French → Latin Mauritius)
Welsh forms like Meurig → Morus/Morys
Irish forms like Ó Muiris
Norman–Irish forms meaning “of the marsh” (de Marisco → Morris)
He knew he loved the name Strathmore and now he believed it to be great. He had researched, read, and comprehended what the word Strathmore actually is, apart from it being a place that is beautiful and full of the oldest people habitat stories we are ever likely to know.
