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Delnies

Deilgnidh


Settlement

Location

Nairnshire

Highland

NH853557


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.

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