English / Map Form: Esk River
Gaelic Form: Easg
Location: Dumfries & Galloway
Post Town: EDINBURGH
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English / Map Form: Esk River
Gaelic Form: Easg
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Forfarshire Esk: esk, uisg ĕsk, North Esk, esk ¯ua; South Esk, esk yes: Diack MS2276
Glen Esk glen ĕsk; Diack,Inscriptions, 184
The Esks of Kincardine and Forfar are in Gaelic Uisge, Easg, Watson 1926, 470
Esk Kincardine Uisg’ Easg: Watson notebooks CW9, 80
The notebook form of Watson implies that he meant both the Esks of Kincardine and Forfar are called ‘Uisge Easg’. The comma in Watson 1926 suggests the Kincardine Esk is known as Uisge and the Forfar one as Easg, but this is possibly a misprint.
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