Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and MeaningW. Blackwood & Sons, 1894 - 219 páginas |
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... takes its usual place after the substantive the stress follows it , as in Barglass , green top , in Wigtownshire . So Glàsvein , in Loch- aber , is glas bheinn ( ven ) , green hill , as Benglàss in Dumbartonshire is beinn glas . This ...
... takes its usual place after the substantive the stress follows it , as in Barglass , green top , in Wigtownshire . So Glàsvein , in Loch- aber , is glas bheinn ( ven ) , green hill , as Benglàss in Dumbartonshire is beinn glas . This ...
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... takes its name from that mineral . Kelso was formerly written Kelhou or Calchow , in Welsh Calchvynyd , the chalk hill , and the name remains attached to the calcareous hill near the town , still called the Chalk Heugh . tory The ...
... takes its name from that mineral . Kelso was formerly written Kelhou or Calchow , in Welsh Calchvynyd , the chalk hill , and the name remains attached to the calcareous hill near the town , still called the Chalk Heugh . tory The ...
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... Hotherwise . In studying place - names , in order to obtain a true Exaggera- picture of the state of the land which they describe , tion . Ambiguous meanings . one must take into account that tendency General Principles . 23.
... Hotherwise . In studying place - names , in order to obtain a true Exaggera- picture of the state of the land which they describe , tion . Ambiguous meanings . one must take into account that tendency General Principles . 23.
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Their Origin and Meaning Sir Herbert Maxwell. Ambiguous meanings . one must take into account that tendency to magnify the importance of localities and individuals which is so common in all rural districts . All nomencla- ture is ...
Their Origin and Meaning Sir Herbert Maxwell. Ambiguous meanings . one must take into account that tendency to magnify the importance of localities and individuals which is so common in all rural districts . All nomencla- ture is ...
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... for rejecting a simple and obvious explanation for a complicated and obscure one . But it would be unpardonable to take this course except upon clear documentary evidence . It may , perhaps , be thought that I have General Principles . 25.
... for rejecting a simple and obvious explanation for a complicated and obscure one . But it would be unpardonable to take this course except upon clear documentary evidence . It may , perhaps , be thought that I have General Principles . 25.
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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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