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Elgin

Eilginn

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Meaning

(New) Ireland


Settlement

Location

Moray

Moray

NJ216629


English / Map Form: Elgin

Gaelic Form: Eilginn


Location: Moray

Post Town: ELGIN

County: Moray

Local Authority: Moray

English / Map Form: Elgin

Gaelic Form: Eilginn


Sources

Eilginn Am Fèillire 1873, 16
Eilgin Dieckhoff Dictionary
eilginn elikin (palatal n) Diack, Inscriptions, 195
Eligin usually, occasionally eligiN’[i.e. Eilgin, usually occasionally Eilginn] Diack, Place-names of Pictland, I, 128
Eilginn Robertson MS
Eilginn Watson, letter in the Scotsman May 19 1913.
Eilginn Watson in Dwelly
Eilginn Watson 1926, 231

Additional Information

Cf also Watson in the Celtic Review vol 9, 176.

“I was… taught to pronounce the name in Gaelic, not Eilginn… but Eiliginn and in the north-west of Perthshire it is still so pronounced by the old natives. To those unacquainted with the language, the pronunciation of the word, as near as I can give it phonetically, is AEle-ghinn (or AEle-ckin), with slight emphasis on the AEle, the gh hard, as in k, and the in rather soft.” Letter to the Scotsman from ‘’Letterfinlay” in Morayshire May 20, 1913.

It would seem that the local form for Elgin is Eilginn, whilst a non-local form exists as Eilgin (such as that gathered by Dieckhoff in Glengarry). The proposed form is well established.

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