Language Notes

Element Meaning

G dubh ~ black ros ~ wood

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Additional Information

Sinton: Dubh-ras ‘The black wood’. The second syllable is no mere locative. It is a noun always inflected, as in “Strath Dhubhrais” … mìle o Dhubhras gu Daras, ‘a mile from Dores to Dares.’

This is an obscure name, now thought to derive from the elements above. A number of other derivations are possible, such as doire, ‘thicket’ and is as a suffix. The name was spelt Dubhras, but this may have been an attempt to explain an obscure name. The name is now generally spelled as Duras.

Alternative Forms