Place-names

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area There are two different words for grey in Scottish Gaelic:
glas or greenish grey, and liath, a light grey of a blueish hue. Place names in the area related to the glas shade of grey

Toponyms from the various names for horse are very common, arising from the old practice of keeping horses on a pasture by themselves. Rosehall (Rossall) comes from the Norse hross-völlr, 'horse field'. In the adjacent Glen Rossal, several names incorporate the Gaelicised version Rosail: Rosail forest, Loch Rosail,

The letter yogh (ȝogh) in Older Scots derived from the letter g, and sounded like a y. In Middle Scots the handwritten character became confused with a cursive z. The early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available and, as a result, some words have a z

Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area. Viking names around the Kyle of Sutherland