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Insch

Innis

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Meaning

dry ground (of Mabanin)


Location

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire

NJ632280


English / Map Form: Insch

Gaelic Form: Innis


Location: Aberdeenshire

Post Town: INSCH

County: Aberdeenshire

Local Authority: Aberdeenshire

English / Map Form: Insch

Gaelic Form: Innis


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

G innis ~ meadow, pasture, island

Sources

de Inchemabanin 1165×1214 Chr. Lindores, cxxxix
Inchemabanin c. 1199 Chr. Lindores, ii
ecclesiam de Inchemabanin c. 1203 Chr. Lindores, iii
de Inchemabanyn 1219×1232 Chr. Lindores, xv
sancti Drostani de Inchemabani 1228×1239 Chr. Lindores, lix
ecclesiam de Inchemabanin c.1213 Chr. Lindores, xciv
molendinum de Inchemabani c. 1249×1286 Chr. Lindores, cxxiii
Insula x2 c. 1275 Reg. Aberdonensis, pp 53, 55
Ingemabanin 1291 Antiqities Abd. Banff iv, p. 501
Inchmacbany que et Insula vocatur c. 1366 Antiqities Abd. Banff i, p. 221 [from Liver Cartarum S Andree 355-360?]
ecclesiam de Ingemabanin 1375 Chr. Lindores, xcii
Inshis / Inchis 1536 Antiqities Abd. Banff, iii, p. 401

īsh (nasal vowel): Diack, Inscriptions, 195

Additional Information

‘meadow, haugh of Mabanin, an unidentified name, possibly of a saint’: Alexander, 1952 302

Cf. also Watson 1926, 312.

The earliest forms, as Watson suggests, seem to reflect something like *Innis mo B(h)eathain or *Innis MacBheathain. From the 13th Century the personal name was starting to be dropped to simply Innis. (The form Insula is a Latinisation of the Gaelic form). It is interesting that Diack’s form gives no article; this occurs sometimes in simplex names where a genitive has dropped from the name.

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