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Findlater

An Fhionn-Leitir

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Meaning

the white slope


Location

Banffshire

Aberdeenshire

NJ541665


English / Map Form: Findlater

Gaelic Form: An Fhionn-Leitir


Location: Buckie

Post Town: Buckie

County: Banffshire

Local Authority: Aberdeenshire

English / Map Form: Findlater

Gaelic Form: An Fhionn-Leitir


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Findlater, a district in the parish of Fordyce, Banffshire, is in Gaelic Fionn-leitir, White declivity or hillside; Topographical Philology, Highland Magazine, v1,6
Am Fionn-leitir nan Cleòc TGSI 26 1904-7, 236
Fionn-Leitir Place-names of West Aberdeenshire
Fionn-Leitir, MacBain 1895 Personal name and Surnames of the Town of Inverness
Fionn-leitir: Watson 2012, Place-names in much of the North-East of Scotland.

Additional Information

The only mention of this name outside place-name scholarly works is in the poem mentioned above in Transactions. It is not clear if the Am relates to the preposition or the article, but on balance the preposition is likelier, especially since leitir is feminine, so An Fhionn-Leitir would be expected.

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