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Dalavil

Dail a' Bhil

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Meaning

the haugh at the rock edge


Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NG580054


English / Map Form: Dalavil

Gaelic Form: Dail a' Bhil


Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides

Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Dalavil

Gaelic Form: Dail a' Bhil


Language Notes

Now understood as: nom. sg. G dail, fem. ‘riverside meadow’ + gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. of bile, ‘lip, edge’

Sources

Talevile 1776 Mackenzie South part
Daalvil 1820 Thomson
Loch a’ Ghlinne = L. Dail a Mhill 1857 Admiralty Charts

Dal a bhile Robertson MS375, 81

Hill or fell, dale or meadow; dail and val, fjal; also given as voltr, a field; vellir, fields; valla etc. Locally explained as dail a bhile, copse-dale: Forbes

Additional Information

As Forbes states, this is likely originally a Norse name, reinterpreted as Gaelic. Informant FG says the old version is Dail a’ Bhile with it now being Dail a’ Bhil. This is in line with the development of genitival forms in place-names.

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