English / Map Form: Buchan
Gaelic Form: Bùchainn
Location: Peterhead
Post Town: Peterhead
County: Aberdeenshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Buchan
Gaelic Form: Bùchainn
Genitive Form: Bhùchainn
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
būching, būchinn: Diack, 183 [i.e. Bùchainn]
In Gael. ‘bu.hən, palatal n: Alexander 1952, 26 [i.e. b:xənj]
“Bucain (gen.)… and Buchan, Bùchan (gen.) in the Legend of Deer; Buchain (dat.) in the Pictish Chronicle…. The u appears to be long” Watson 1926, 119
Additional Information
Buchan Coast ~ Oirthir Bhùchainn
