Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 páginas |
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... English , - · LECTURE V. 76 THE LESSON OF PLACE - NAMES . Succession of races not explained by place - names - These illustrate former appearance of the country - The old forest - Its trees and undergrowth - Humbler vegetation - Crops ...
... English , - · LECTURE V. 76 THE LESSON OF PLACE - NAMES . Succession of races not explained by place - names - These illustrate former appearance of the country - The old forest - Its trees and undergrowth - Humbler vegetation - Crops ...
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... English , for example , the changing shades of meaning in popular intensives , such as " awful , " " blooming , " " tremendous , " & c . , occurring in ephem- eral songs and other light literature , may prove a snare to the student who ...
... English , for example , the changing shades of meaning in popular intensives , such as " awful , " " blooming , " " tremendous , " & c . , occurring in ephem- eral songs and other light literature , may prove a snare to the student who ...
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... English vowel pronunciation which have taken place since this attempt at phonetic writing was made . Let us consider the form given to the well- known name Glenàlmond . It is composed of two Gaelic , possibly Pictish , words , gleann ...
... English vowel pronunciation which have taken place since this attempt at phonetic writing was made . Let us consider the form given to the well- known name Glenàlmond . It is composed of two Gaelic , possibly Pictish , words , gleann ...
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Their Origin and Meaning Sir Herbert Maxwell. several centuries the English a was pronounced broad , at least in Northern English , and " amon " repre- sented the Gaelic pronunciation closely enough ; but when , towards the fifteenth ...
Their Origin and Meaning Sir Herbert Maxwell. several centuries the English a was pronounced broad , at least in Northern English , and " amon " repre- sented the Gaelic pronunciation closely enough ; but when , towards the fifteenth ...
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... English that the mh had to be represented by w , and Awn or Owen are commoner river - names in Ireland than Avon . I am now going to submit to your attention a Stress . point which seems to have altogether escaped the notice of most ...
... English that the mh had to be represented by w , and Awn or Owen are commoner river - names in Ireland than Avon . I am now going to submit to your attention a Stress . point which seems to have altogether escaped the notice of most ...
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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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