Scottish Land-names: Their Origin and Meaning

Aberdeenshire achadh amhuinn Anglian Anglo-Saxon Argyleshire aspiration Ayrshire bólstaðr called cathair ceann Celtic Celts century chlachair church cill cnoc coill common consonants corrie crag creag croft Crown 8vo cudbright cuil cúl dabhach dale dalr davach dialect district druim dubh Dumfriesshire dún earrann Edition English farm Fcap Fife Firbolg Frisians Gael Gaelic names Galloway garbh garriv genitive glas Glasgow gleann glen hill hillside Illustrations Inverness-shire Ireland Irish island Isle Iverian J. G. Lockhart Kirk Kirkcudbright Lanarkshire land language Latin Loch madadh Manann meadow meaning modern Gaelic mór Nennius Norse names Norsemen Northern occurs origin Orkney paddock parish Perthshire pett Pictish Pictish Chronicle Picts plural pre-Celtic prefix probably pronunciation recognised ridge river Ross-shire Saxon Scotland Scottish place-names Selkirkshire shieling shire Skene sloping sound speech Stirlingshire Strathclyde stream stress suffix syllable tiobar tír tún vols Welsh Wigtown Wigtownshire wood word written wudu