Language Notes

Element Meaning

G guireag ~ pimple, i.e. the hill above the town

Sources

Gorag no Gūrag: Macintyre 1810
Goraig, guReg’: Dieckhoff
Gòraig (in Arran Gaelic): Robertson [o also has a breve]
air Gouraig: An t-Òranaiche 1879, 35

Gourock may be guireoc, guireag, a pimple, with reference to the rounded hillocks there.: Watson 1926, 201
aig Gurag: Gaelic of Jura
Gourock, G. Gurraig; I do not know of old forms of the word, but I suggest a Norse personal name, Guthrek: Henderson 1910, 161

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