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Arbuthnott

Obar Bhuadhnait


Settlement

Location

Kincardineshire

Aberdeenshire

AB30

NO798756


English / Map Form: Arbuthnott

Gaelic Form: Obar Bhuadhnait


Location: Laurencekirk

Post Town: LAURENCEKIRK

Postcode area: AB30

County: Kincardineshire

Local Authority: Aberdeenshire

English / Map Form: Arbuthnott

Gaelic Form: Obar Bhuadhnait


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Element Meaning

 

Sources

The original is something like *Buadhnaid.: Diack Place-names of Pictland, ii, 123

Aberbuthnot, now Arbuthnot in Kincardineshire, is Aberbothenoth, 1242 (Pont. Eccl. S. Andr.), Abirbuthenoth, Aberbuthenot, 1282/3 (Reg. Arbr.), etc. Here ‘ Bothenoth,’ etc., is the name of the stream close to St. Torannan’s church, and is for the genitive of Buadhnat, ‘little one of virtue’ lit. ‘ little triumph, little virtue’ ; in other words, it was a holy stream possessed of healing power.: Watson 1928, 446

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