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Scottish Place Names interpreted

aird, 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