English / Map Form: Delnies
Gaelic Form: Deilgnidh
Location: Nairnshire, Highland
Post Town: NAIRN
County: Nairnshire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Delnies
Gaelic Form: Deilgnidh
Genitive Form: Dheilgnidh
Language Notes
Name based on G dealg, ‘thorn’ + locational suffix -nidh, = ‘place of thorns’Sources
Delgeny 1358 Chiefs of Grant no. 14 (p. 157)
Delny 1565 Moray Reg. Rentale Episcopatus
Delny c.1591 Pont map 8
Delny wester, Delny-easter c. 1591 Pont Text 127v
Delny 1611 RMS vii no. 586
E Delny 1654 Blaeu map Moravia
Delnies 1820 Thomson
Deilgnidh: Watson CW9
“…the little fishing village of Delnies was Delgnidh” Letter to the Scotsman May 23, 1913.
Additional Information
There is a Delny in the Black Isle, which is demonstrably Deilgnidh. The earliest form from the Chiefs of Grant shows this is also the derivation for this name. The current form is clearly a Scots plural.
