English / Map Form: Dalerb
Gaelic Form: Dail Earb
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Dalerb
Gaelic Form: Dail Earb
Language Notes
nom. sg. G dail, fem. ‘riverside meadow’ + gen. pl. earb, masc. ‘roe deer’ = ‘riverside meadow of the roe deer’Element Meaning
Sources
Dalerby 1783 Stobie
‘Haugh of the roe deer’ 1892 Christie
Dail earb MS371 Robertson Collection p. 15
Additional Information
Compare Presnerb ‘roe copse’ Watson 1928 p. 421. For the structure of the name, without an article, compare names such as Bad Each ‘Clump of (the) Horses’ (MacBain 1931 p. 29).
