English / Map Form: Avernish
Gaelic Form: Àbhairnis
Location: Wester Ross, Highland
Post Town: KYLE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A87
English / Map Form: Avernish
Gaelic Form: Àbhairnis
Genitive Form: Àbhairnis
Language Notes
ON Obscure element + nom. sg. ON nes, neut. ‘promontary’Element Meaning
ON obscure element; nes promontory
Sources
| Awnernis | 1495 RMS ii no. 228 |
| Awnarnys | 1528 RMS iii no. 534 |
| Avarrynnis | 1548 RMS iv no. 204 |
| Awirnis | 1596 RMS vi no. 453 |
| Averinsche | 1655 RMS x no. 440 |
| Averneis | 1681 RPS [1681/7/155] |
| Abharnis | Dwelly 1912 |
| Abhairnis | Watson 1904, 188 |
| Abhairnis | previous signage |
| [ɑ:və,ɳɪʃ] | Local source, Sòdhaigh |
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