Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 páginas |
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... map - makers ' blunders - Exaggeration - Deceptive forms , PAGE 1 LECTURE II . THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTTISH PLACE - NAMES . Traces of pre - Celtic speech - The Iverian or Silurian race - The Fir- bolg of the Irish Annalists - The Ernai ...
... map - makers ' blunders - Exaggeration - Deceptive forms , PAGE 1 LECTURE II . THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTTISH PLACE - NAMES . Traces of pre - Celtic speech - The Iverian or Silurian race - The Fir- bolg of the Irish Annalists - The Ernai ...
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... maps - Gaelic names disguised as Norse - Relative antiquity of certain place - names -Traces of Norse occupation in Scotland - Resemblance be- tween Norse and Saxon speech - Norse test - words - Their dis- tribution Inferences therefrom ...
... maps - Gaelic names disguised as Norse - Relative antiquity of certain place - names -Traces of Norse occupation in Scotland - Resemblance be- tween Norse and Saxon speech - Norse test - words - Their dis- tribution Inferences therefrom ...
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... MAP - MAKERS ' BLUNDERS - EXAGGERATION - DECEPTIVE FORMS . to be en- NQUIRY into the origin and mean- Difficulties ing of Scottish place - names is a task countered . beset with difficulties of a peculiar kind . Most of these names were ...
... MAP - MAKERS ' BLUNDERS - EXAGGERATION - DECEPTIVE FORMS . to be en- NQUIRY into the origin and mean- Difficulties ing of Scottish place - names is a task countered . beset with difficulties of a peculiar kind . Most of these names were ...
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... map of Selkirkshire , but they will never hear it on the lips of a local speaker as Scott has taught us to pronounce it . It is always called Delòrain , which clearly brings out its meaning - dal Orain , Oran's land . errors . In ...
... map of Selkirkshire , but they will never hear it on the lips of a local speaker as Scott has taught us to pronounce it . It is always called Delòrain , which clearly brings out its meaning - dal Orain , Oran's land . errors . In ...
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... map Auld Taggart , as if named from an aged person of the name of Taggart or Mactaggart , a common surname in the district . But on the other side of the river Luce , distant only a few hundred yards , is a stream correctly marked Al ...
... map Auld Taggart , as if named from an aged person of the name of Taggart or Mactaggart , a common surname in the district . But on the other side of the river Luce , distant only a few hundred yards , is a stream correctly marked Al ...
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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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