Book Description
Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.
Author : George Mackay
Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Gazetteers
ISBN : 9781902407876
Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.
Author : Iain Taylor
Publisher : Birlinn Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781780270050
Scotland is a land of many languages—Gaelic, Norse, Pictish, Brythonic, Anglo Saxon, Modern English and some from before recorded time. The result for the visitor is a confusing series of overlapping layers of place names, difficult to understand and often more difficult to pronounce. From Eass Forss (Waterfall Waterfall!) to Edinburgh (The Fort of Eidyn) for the first time in one place we have a simple reckoner to where means what with derivations. Packed with information this is an essential short guide by an expert to the names that shaped and still shape our history.
Author : James Brown Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : William John Watson
Publisher : Edinburgh Blackwood 1926.
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN :
Author : Adam Watson
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782220690
A study of Celtic, Scots and English place names across large sections of north-east Scotland, based on interviews with indigenous residents working the land and the sea, along with historical sources and maps.
Author : W. F. H. Nicolaisen
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : 9781906566364
Author : William John Watson
Publisher : Birlinn Limited
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841583235
First published in 1926, this remains the best and most comprehensive reference guide to the Celtic place-names of Scotland. This is the only paperback edition of this classic work, which is essential reading for anyone interested in Scottish history and the derivations of place names the length and breadth of the country. Many place-names date before the arrival of the Celts (the name 'Tay', for example, is almost certainly thousands of years old), and each successive group of invaders and settlers - Britons, Dalriadic Scots, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Picts and many others - constantly adding and enriching, leaving their own unique story in the landscape. The book is divided into sections dealing with early names, territorial divisions, general surveys of areas; it also looks at saints, church terms and river names. For the scholar, and indeed anyone interested in the subject, this book is a prime reference point which has never been surpassed.
Author : Sir Herbert Maxwell
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : David Mills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 019960908X
From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.
Author : Maggie Scott
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1845028228
The Scots language is a world of wonderful, historic and evocative words, full of a rich variety that can fit any occasion. And where better to find this use of Scots than in the land itself. In Scottish Place Names Maggie Scott of Scottish Language Dictionaries takes you around the country from Dumfries to Shetland to explain the meanings of the place names that make up today's Scotland. Through a trip to Scotland's towns and cities, up and down the hills and mountains, along the rivers and lochs, through the forests and glens, all the way around the Scottish coast and back to the names of the streets where we live today, Scottish Place Names is a fascinating, entertaining and informative guide to Scots language and to Scotland.