LanguageScottish Place Names interpretedaird, ard | high | annocht | steep slope | auch | field | bal, baile | town | birk | birch | blar | plain | brae | [ON brá eyelash, OE bræw eyelid, OFris. bre, OS, OHG brawa (G Braue) eyebrow: the sense development is parallel to that of BROW n.1] A steep bank beside a river valley; a hillside, a slope | brex, brec, breac | spotted, speckled | burn | stream | cabar | pole or beam | clenoch | steep or sloping | clyde, clud | clothed, covered | core, corroc | a circular hollow, a cauldron | cotter | a farm laborer who lives in a cottage in return for labor | croft | a small enclosed field, worked by a crofter; a piece of enclosed land used for tillage or pasturage; esp. a plot of arable land attached to a house; also, a smallholding worked by a tenant; esp. one in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and a right of pasturage in common with others | cul | nook | dal | dale | dar | forest | darach | oak | deffrane, draffan | black moss | devon, dovane | deep, black river | doire | back | droc | dark | drum | long narrow hill or ridge | dun | mount or hillock | dyke | artificial ditch or canal; a dry-stone enclosure; alternatively, a stane-dyke | fardel | faithful man | foot | lower end of a stream or man made ditch | gad | priest | gannes | pasture | gar, garrel | justice, court | gaul | stranger | gill | gully, ravine, small stream | glen | glen [Gael., Ir. gleann, earlier glenn Welsh glyn.] A n. A mountain valley, esp. narrow and steep-sided and forming the course of a stream or river | gour | goats | gow | smith | gray [grex-gis] | herd of cows | gre | herd or flock | head | source of a stream or man made ditch | holm | pool of water | kars, kerse | mossy ground | kirk | church | law | Scottish & north. ME. [Var. of LOW n.1] A hill, esp. one more or less round or conical. Chiefly in names, as North Berwick Law, Cushat Law | loch | lake | muir | moor, wasteland | nether | lower | poniel, polnelle | pool in a stream, Neil's pool or pond | raen | plain | raw | uncultivated | rig | A ridge (similar to a "drum") | scor, scorrie | sharp rock | shaw | beard or thicket | tool | blood or flood | tor | tower or fort | Vode | wood |
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