English / Map Form: Glen Prosen
Gaelic Form: Gleann Pràsain
Location: Perth & Kinross
Post Town: FORFAR
Postcode area: DD8
County: Angus
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Glen Prosen
Gaelic Form: Gleann Pràsain
Language Notes
nom. sg. G gleann, masc. ‘glen’ + obscure hydronymElement Meaning
G gleann ~ glen + obscure hydronym
Sources
| glenprostyn | 1463 Reg. Cup. no. 74 |
| water-side of Prosswym | 1524 Lives of the Lindsays i., 447 |
| Glenprossin, prossin | c. 1591 Pont text 139r |
| Prossyiin | R c. 1591 Pont map 30 front |
| Prossin fl | 1636-1652 Gordon map 6 |
| Proson Wr | 1794 Ainslie Angus |
| Gleann Pràsain Watson 2001, 147 (see also 1926, 430) |
| Gleann Pràsain Watson in Dwelly |
| Uisg prasaik, prasag, glen prasaik, uisge phrasaik sometimes prasan Diack 1944, 185 |
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