English / Map Form: Holm Mills
Gaelic Form: Muileann an Tuilm
Location: Inverness, Highland
Post Town: INVERNESS
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A82
English / Map Form: Holm Mills
Gaelic Form: Muileann an Tuilm
Language Notes
G nom. sg. muileann, masc. ‘mill’ + the gen. sg. masc. def. art. an + gen. sg. tolm, masc. `holm'.Element Meaning
G muileann ~ mill; tolm ~ holm
Sources
| An Tuilm For Holm, (Inverness) | Dwelly 1912 |
| Holm = An Tolm | MacLean, 78 |
| An Talm | Robertson |
| Holm = an Tuilm | Watson 2001 (1909), 160 |
| Muileann an Tuilm | HB |
Additional Information
MacLean says that Holm is in Gaelic ‘an Tolm’. MacLean also gives the genitive of Tolm as Tuilm in the Gaelic form for the Laird of Holm and Holm Burn which are Fear an Tuilm and Allt an Tuilm respectively. Informant HB says for the form stated above, he had seen it written but not spoken. There is no direct evidence for this form, however.
