English / Map Form: Hopeman
Gaelic Form: Hudaman
County: Moray
Local Authority: Moray
English / Map Form: Hopeman
Gaelic Form: Hudaman
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Hudaman; cp Howdman in local speech Diack 1927, 195
ann ə hudəman (English Howtman): Diack MS2276
“The local pronunciation of the word is Howdman… so far as I know there is neither in old nor in modern Gaelic a word to correspond with it”: Trans. Inverness Scientific Society, Celtic Place-names, 1887, 299
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