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Cumbernauld

Comar nan Allt

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Meaning

the confluence of the burns


Settlement

Location

Dunbartonshire

North Lanarkshire

NS768744


English / Map Form: Cumbernauld

Gaelic Form: Comar nan Allt


Location: North Lanarkshire

Post Town: GLASGOW

County: Dunbartonshire

Local Authority: North Lanarkshire

English / Map Form: Cumbernauld

Gaelic Form: Comar nan Allt


Genitive Form: Comar nan Allt

Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

G comar ~ confluence; allt ~ stream

Sources

Cumbrenald c. 1300 Untitled map at the Bodleian Library
Cumbernolde 1319 CDS no. 655
Cumbirnald 1374 RMS i no. 477
Cumyrnald 1417 Arb. Lib. ii no 53
Combernald 1427 Rymer’s Foedera Volume 10, Nov. 10
Cummernald 1440 RMS ii no. 244
Cummyrnald 1480 RMS ii no. 1453
Cumernauld Castle 1480 Wigt. Chrs. no. 51
terras de Cummyrnald 1480 RMS ii, 1453
Cummernauld 1538 RMS iii no. 1774
Cummarnald 1547 RSS iii no. 2501
Cummirnaid 1588 RMS v no. 1595
Cu[o?]mbernade Castle & Cummernod Wood 1590s Pont 32
Cummernauld 1617 RMS vii no. 1634
Cumbernad Castle & Cummernad Wood 1654 Blaeu
Cumbernauld 1755 Roy
Cumernauld & Cumernauld Forest 1777 Ross
Cumbernauld 1832 Thomson

Evidently comar nan allt: Nicolaisen, Names of Towns and Cities in Britain
Comar nan Allt: Robertson, Teach Yourself Gaelic Dictionary
Comar.. nallt: Watson 1926, 243
Combar n-alld ‘burn mouth’ Diack, Place-names of Pictland, ii, 130

Additional Information

This would originally have been the old genitive plural Comar n-Allt, now rendered as Comar nan Allt.

Thanks to Pete Drummond for the early forms.

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