Cumbernauld
Comar nan Allt
Meaning
the confluence of the burns
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.
