A Scottish name for SOUTHERNWOOD. Simpson’s explanation is that apple is from the old word aplen, a church, and ringie is Saint Rin’s, or St Ninian’s, wood (Ringan was the Scots form of Ninian). Aitken offers another derivation. Appelez Ringan, pray to Ringan, became first Appleringan, then Appleringie. But Jamieson says that it is from the French ‘apile’, strong, and ‘auronne’, southernwood, which derives from abrotanum.
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