Cromarty

Cromba

Meaning

crooked bay

Settlement

Location

Ross and Cromarty

Highland

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English / Map Form: Cromarty

Gaelic Form: Cromba

Location: Black Isle & Mid-Ross

Post Town: CROMARTY

County: Ross and Cromarty

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Cromarty

Gaelic Form: Cromba

Sources

Crombagh Robertson MS357, 98
Crombagh (Cromarty) : Gaelic of the West of Ross-shire, Transactions, 1897, 324
A preference of u to o seems to be a feature of Sutherland Gaelic… Cromba (Cromarty)… [has] u (ù) for o (ò)
: Scottish Gaelic Dialects, vol iii p. 232

krʌupa/ croupa: Diack Ms2276
krɣu:pa: Dorian notebooks