English / Map Form: Eynort
Gaelic Form: Aoineart
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: B8009
English / Map Form: Eynort
Gaelic Form: Aoineart
Language Notes
Perhaps ON eiða-fjörðr: ON gen. sg. eið, neut. ‘isthmus’ + ON nom. sg. fjörðr, masc. ‘sea loch’ = ‘sea-loch of the isthmus’Element Meaning
ON eið ~ isthmus; fjörðr ~ sea loch
Sources
| Loch Ainort = Loch Eÿnort | 1654 Blaeu Map (Skye) |
| Loch Ainort = Loch Eynort | 1776 Mackenzie: South part |
| Eynord, Eynort: Eyn-ord or eid… isthmus; | Forbes, 187 |
| uncertain Admiralty chart gave name Ainneart | |
| Bràigh Aoineart | Sorley Maclean, An t-Eilean |
Additional Information
This ON name is quoted in Cleasby & Vigfusson, 117, but it is far from certain that it is the correct derivation in this case.