Old gaelic names
Gaelic Place-Names: ‘dùn’ and ‘caisteal’
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/gaelic-place-names-dun-caisteal/?print=pdf
John Murray, Reading the Gaelic Landscape (2014) W.J. Watson, The History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland (2011, 1926) W.J. Watson, Place Names of Ross and Cromarty (1904) The Gaelic word dùn (pronounced doon) means ‘fort, castle, fortified hill’. It is found in place-names including Dundonald ‘Donald’s fort’ in Ayrshire, Dunbeg
[PDF File] INTERCHANGEABLE SURNAMES AND PERSONAL …
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one surname, and that most Gaelic personal names had an anglicised form and a biblical or classical equivalent which could be, and often were, used interchangeably. ... which translates 'son of Gilchynich', an old Gaelic personal name meaning 'the servant of St Kenneth', was interchangeable with the more recognisable MacKenzie. ...
[PDF File] Gaelic Place-Names Policy
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A Gaelic place-name for the purposes of this document is a place-name used by Gaelic speakers when speaking Gaelic, whatever its linguistic origin, and, if written, represented in Gaelic orthography. It does not need to be originally of Gaelic origin, nor originally coined by Gaelic speakers. (See 6.2.) 2.
[PDF File] The Brittonic Language in the Old North - Scottish Place …
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their names to mediaeval parishes, as did a total of 26 places throughout Scotland whose names contain aber, see Taylor 2011, p. 83. Note that Aber Isle in Loch Lomond, CPNS p. 459 is probably Gaelic eabar ‘mud, mire’. b2) Abercarf Lnk (= Wiston) SPN² p. 211 + -*garw, the river-name Garf: see Barrow in Uses, p. 56.
[PDF File] Scottish Naming Customs - FamilySearch
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less the same, since the Gaels came to Scotland from Ireland and brought their names with them as they brought the Gaelic language. Sharon L. Krossa, “Quick and easy Gaelic Names,” p. 2. Scottish Naming Patterns Parental Scottish Naming Pattern The 1st son was named for his father’s father
[PDF File] GAELIC NAMES OF SHRUBS, AND PLANTS, - Electric …
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very fine contrast to the light green of the common beech, or the. white flowers of the hawthorn or the mountain ash, and is there-. fore a very striking object in a landscape. There are some very large trees of this kind in the Highlands, such as at Guisachan, in Strathglass, where they have a very rich dark colour.
[PDF File] The Place Names of Lewis - The Norse Evidence - Scottish …
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on the o.s. map names and this has led to inaccurate assessments of, for example, the ratio of Norse : Gaelic names on the map. The Norse place-names in Lewis have, of course, been studied a good deal in the past. W. J. Watson's treatment of them in his 'Place Names of Ross and Cromarty' is rather sketchy, and obviously not in-·
Part 4. Gaelic Plant and Animal Names, and Associated Folk …
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THE Gaelic names entered in the following lists were all found current more or less widely amongst the country folk or fishermen of Clare Island and the ... islanders, old and young, English speakers alnd bilinguists, speak of the common Ribwort Plantain as SUm-i ttii; of the Ragweed as b otNAstn; of the ...
[PDF File] Gaelic Place-names along the West Highland Way
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Many place-names along the West Highland Way are very old, and there are some that may have been coined 1,300 years ago; there are others that are more recent, perhaps only ... Gaelic Place-names along the West Highland Way: A Thematic Overview Place-names can give an indication of an area’s past landscapes, whether natural or human
[PDF File] The unique heritage of place-names in North West England
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Old Welsh (Cumbric) Scattered around the region, but especially found in north Cumbria Old Celtic Old Gaelic (from Ireland) Especially found in north west Cumbria The following sections explain and illustrate these sub-divisions. 3.1 Two Anglian influences The largest share of place-names in the North West, as in England in general is from
[PDF File] English Dialects in Modern British Fiction - L-Space
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Before Feegle Language is analysed more closely, the terms “Gaelic”, “Old Scots” and “Glaswegian” should be defined. Gibberish, obviously, needs no explanation. 2.1. Gaelic Gaelic is a Celtic language of the Goidelic branch, also referred to as Q-Celtic because the Indo-European labio-velar /kw/ remained a velar
Appendix. Names for the Aurora - AGU Publications
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Names for the Aurora ... Gaelic Shetlands and Scotland Shetlands and Scotland North England North England North England North England Hudson Bay area or North ... 1716 (old system), and it is difficult to say whether there was another display 2 weeks earlier (two large displays in 2 weeks seems improbable), or whether the aurora of ...
Part 4. Gaelic Plant and Animal Names, and Associated Folk …
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current Gaelic names for about 120 species of plants and animals; yet there can be no doubt that much more remains to be done in this direction even on Clare Island itself, where a visit in the spring season would certainly be rewarded by the addition of several plant names. Gaelic folk-speech is unquestionably copious in terms denoting natural ...
[PDF File] Placenames of Strathardle, Glenshee and Glenisla
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Gaelic cognate is “treabh”, now used only as the verb ‘to plough’. Meaning – Fort Township. Stormont (Starmonth, 1374). Combining Gaelic “stair”, stepping-stones with “monadh”, Moor. The Mounth is the old name for the Grampians, and Mount is found several
[PDF File] Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray 'Place-names'
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Yet most of the old names were retained, albeit in a new mode of spelling. The Normans, and their Anglo- Irish successors, adapted Gaelic names within the sound systems of their own languages. In the early thirteenth century Song of Dermot and the Earl (Orpen 1892 written in Norman French, Áth Cliath became
[PDF File] Place Names of the Cateran Trail - Common Culture
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settlement- names and a small number of hill and stream- names. In the late eighteenth century the area was still mainly Gaelic speaking. The Rev. Allan Stewart, minister for Kirkmichael, wrote in the 1790s that: ‘the prevailing language in the parish is the Gaelic. A dialect of the ancient Scotch, also, is
[PDF File] Handbook of Biblical and Ecclesiastical Gaelic - Church of …
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Introduction. This handbook is intended as a guide to Biblical and ecclesiastical Gaelic – that is, the kind of Gaelic used in the Bible and in church, both of which can be diferent in significant ways from everyday spoken Gaelic. It is aimed primarily at those who wish to be able to preach or otherwise lead worship in Gaelic, but feel that ...
[PDF File] Gaelic Scotland: a brief history
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In the 9th century, during a time of great upheaval caused by Viking invaders all around Britain’s shores, Gaels took power in eastern, as in western Scotland. By 900 the old name of Pictland was no more, and a new Gaelic name for that kingdom—Alba—and with it a new identity as Fir Alban (‘the Men of Alba’) was being promoted.
[PDF File] Gaelic Names of Pibrochs: A Classification1 - University of …
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Gathering”. It is these names which most clearly tell us the circumstances under which the old composers worked: making ceremonial music to honour patrons, or to commemorate victories (and defeats) in battle in the age of clan warfare. The purpose of this article is to review the Gaelic names of the pibrochs, as recorded in the original sources.
[PDF File] McNiven, Peter Edward (2011) Gaelic place-names and the …
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Gaelic Place-names and the Social History of Gaelic Speakers in Medieval Menteith Peter Edward McNiven ... his teaching of Old Irish and Gaelic Phonetics; Dr Sheila Kidd and Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich, for Gaelic 1B; Dr Katherine Forsyth, the departmental Post Graduate convener; Ms Carol
[PDF File] NORSE AND CELTIC PLACE-NAMES AROUND THE …
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W.J. Watson's Place-Names of Ross and Cromarty (1904) is a valuable reference, which is unsurpassed elsewhere in the north. Suther land can boast of no such comprehensive survey, although John Mackay's series of articles in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (r888-94) does attempt to tackle the place-names of much of Sutherland
[PDF File] Issues in developing a chronology for Norse and Gaelic …
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recorded names, the earliest written source is the 19th century Board of Ordnance 6 inch : 1 mile series. Perhaps at least partly because of this, the dating of names in the Heb-rides has largely been restricted to differentiating those considered to be Scottish Gaelic, on the one hand, from those considered to be Old Norse, on the other.
[PDF File] brief clan history - Clan Malcolm
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A Brief History of Clan MacCallum/Malcolm. The names MacCallum and Malcolm derive from the Gaelic name of Saint Columba of the Celtic Church, who brought Christianity to Scotland in 563 A.D. The Gaelic names for Saint Columba are Colm or Callum (Chaluim). Maol Colm is an ancient form of Malcolm - Maol means “shaven head,” i.e. a monk.
[PDF File] Traditional place names around Deeside
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moves into the lower parts of Deeside, the old Gaelic names became modified by the Scots language, because of language shift in those communities, before collection by the OS; the modern forms are thus more difficult to interpret. Place-name scholarship requires an examination of early recorded forms of the names.
[PDF File] Gaelic Bird Names
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Match up the Gaelic Names to the English names and write them on your wildlife Wild Escape card pack! Woodcock / Coileach-coille. Cearc-thomain / (Grey) Partridge. Guilbneach / Curlew. Easag / Pheasant. Gocan-gorm / Blue Tit. Clamhan-ruadh / Kestrel. Nathair-challtainn / Slow Worm. Feadag-bhuidhe / Golden Plover.
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