name
Carnegie
kah-NIH-gee
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A Scottish surname, most famously borne by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; also several towns in the US named after him.
"Andrew Carnegie funded the building of thousands of libraries."
Word Forms
Carnegies plural
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Etymology
Possibly from Gaelic cathair an eige, "fort at the gap."