Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 páginas |
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... give an idea of the sound of a name by employing written characters , and so long as the idea was con- veyed , neither writers nor readers troubled them- selves about the niceties of orthography . Here , for instance , are five - and ...
... give an idea of the sound of a name by employing written characters , and so long as the idea was con- veyed , neither writers nor readers troubled them- selves about the niceties of orthography . Here , for instance , are five - and ...
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... give Balcleuch . Again , the Rev. James B. Johnston , 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 ...
... give Balcleuch . Again , the Rev. James B. Johnston , 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 ...
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... gives allt na bheath , stream of the birches , for Alloway ; magh sratha , plain of the strath ( a ple- onasm ) , for Mènstrie ; magh chrom , crooked plain , for Mochrum . These names , had such been their 12 Scottish Land - Names .
... gives allt na bheath , stream of the birches , for Alloway ; magh sratha , plain of the strath ( a ple- onasm ) , for Mènstrie ; magh chrom , crooked plain , for Mochrum . These names , had such been their 12 Scottish Land - Names .
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... give a spurious form to certain English words in common use , such as causeway , " a term which has no affinity with " way , " a road , but used to be spelt causey and cawsee . It is from the Old French caucie ( modern French chaussée ) ...
... give a spurious form to certain English words in common use , such as causeway , " a term which has no affinity with " way , " a road , but used to be spelt causey and cawsee . It is from the Old French caucie ( modern French chaussée ) ...
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... give the origin of Blàdenoch , a river in that county . On its banks is a remarkable monumental circle of great stones , which local tradition affirms to be , not druidical , as is usually believed of such monuments , but the burial ...
... give the origin of Blàdenoch , a river in that county . On its banks is a remarkable monumental circle of great stones , which local tradition affirms to be , not druidical , as is usually believed of such monuments , but the burial ...
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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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