Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 páginas |
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... AUTHOR OF ' STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF GALLOWAY , ' ' MERIDIANA , ' ' LIFE AND TIMES OF THE RIGHT HON . W. H. SMITH , ' ETC. ETC. REVIRESCO MDCCCXCIV All Rights reserved PREFACE . THESE lectures are offered as a contribution to.
... AUTHOR OF ' STUDIES IN THE TOPOGRAPHY OF GALLOWAY , ' ' MERIDIANA , ' ' LIFE AND TIMES OF THE RIGHT HON . W. H. SMITH , ' ETC. ETC. REVIRESCO MDCCCXCIV All Rights reserved PREFACE . THESE lectures are offered as a contribution to.
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... author of an interesting book on Scottish place - names , has re- minded me that Kinloch as a place - name sometimes bears the stress on the first syllable - cinn locha , at the head of a lake - whereas , according to this rule , it ...
... author of an interesting book on Scottish place - names , has re- minded me that Kinloch as a place - name sometimes bears the stress on the first syllable - cinn locha , at the head of a lake - whereas , according to this rule , it ...
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... author , compiling his work from English notes , led his readers to believe that the headland was called Wraith Hotherwise . In studying place - names , in order to obtain a true Exaggera- picture of the state of the land which they ...
... author , compiling his work from English notes , led his readers to believe that the headland was called Wraith Hotherwise . In studying place - names , in order to obtain a true Exaggera- picture of the state of the land which they ...
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... Author of ' Lorna Doone , ' & c . New Edition . BLACKWOOD . and Social Significance . By R. D. BLACKMORE , Crown 8vo , 6s . Blackwood's Magazine , from Commencement in 1817 to March 1894. Nos . 1 to 941 , forming 154 Volumes . Index to ...
... Author of ' Lorna Doone , ' & c . New Edition . BLACKWOOD . and Social Significance . By R. D. BLACKMORE , Crown 8vo , 6s . Blackwood's Magazine , from Commencement in 1817 to March 1894. Nos . 1 to 941 , forming 154 Volumes . Index to ...
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... Author of The Present Art Revival , ' & c . With Three Portraits and numerous Illustrations . Post 8vo , 7s . 6d . BOSCOBEL TRACTS . Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester , and his subsequent ...
... Author of The Present Art Revival , ' & c . With Three Portraits and numerous Illustrations . Post 8vo , 7s . 6d . BOSCOBEL TRACTS . Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester , and his subsequent ...
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Aberdeenshire achadh amhuinn Anglo-Saxon Argyleshire aspiration Author Ayrshire baile barr beinn Blackwood and Sons blár bólstaðr called Celtic Celts century Cheap Edition church cill cloth cnoc coill consonants crag creag croft Crown 8vo dabhach dalr Demy 8vo district druim dubh Dumfriesshire Edinburgh English Engravings farm Fcap field Fife French morocco Gael Gaelic names Galloway genitive Glasgow gleann glen Highlands hill hill-top History Illustrations Ireland Irish island Isle Iverian Kirkcudbright land language Latin Lectures LL.D Loch Manann Maps meaning modern Gaelic mór Nennius Norse names Norsemen OLIPHANT origin Orkney parish Perthshire Pictish Pictish Chronicle Picts plural Poems Portrait Post 8vo prefix probably Professor pronunciation Revised ridge river Ross-shire Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish place-names Second Edition Selkirkshire shire Skene sloping speech Stirlingshire Strathclyde stream suffix syllable Third Edition tiobar tion tír Translated tún vols Welsh Wigtownshire William Blackwood wood word written wudu
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