Author: George Mackay
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781902407876
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.
Scottish Place Names
Author: George Mackay
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781902407876
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.
Publisher: Waverley Books Limited
ISBN: 9781902407876
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Containing almost 2000 entries, a history and geography of Scotland. Towns, villages, islands, mountains, lochs and rivers of Scotland.
Place-Names of Scotland
Author: Iain Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Limited
ISBN: 9781780270050
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Birlinn Limited
ISBN: 9781780270050
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland
Author: William John Watson
Publisher: Edinburgh Blackwood 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh Blackwood 1926.
ISBN:
Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Place names in much of north-east Scotland
Author: Adam Watson
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782220690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 1782220690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
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.
Scottish Place-Names
Author: W. F. H. Nicolaisen
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN: 9781906566364
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN: 9781906566364
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Place-names of Argyll
Author: H. Cameron Gillies
Publisher: London D. Nutt 1906.
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: London D. Nutt 1906.
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Place-names of Ross and Cromarty
Author: William John Watson
Publisher: Inverness The Northern counties Printing and Publishing Company 1904.
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: Inverness The Northern counties Printing and Publishing Company 1904.
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A Dictionary of British Place-Names
Author: David Mills
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019960908X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019960908X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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.
The River-names of Europe
Author: Robert Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Place-names of Scotland
Author: James Brown Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description