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Laphroaig

Laphraoig

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Meaning

slope of broad-bay


Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

NR387451


English / Map Form: Laphroaig

Gaelic Form: Laphraoig


Location: Islay, Inner Hebrides

Post Town: ISLE OF ISLAY

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: Laphroaig

Gaelic Form: Laphraoig


Language Notes

ON hlað breiðr-vík 'slope of broad-bay'

Element Meaning

ON hlað ~ slope; breiðr-vík ~ ‘broad bay’

Sources

Laphroaig 1849 Admiralty Chart 2515
Lag-Phraoig 1882 Thomas
Doubtful possibly Norse Lands of Lordship
[La:froig̥] (Port Ellen).

Additional Information

Henderson 1910, 194 suggests a derivation of the second element as the same as Proaig, from N breiðr-vík. ‘broad bay, whilst the first element seems to contain ON hlað, barn, pile, stack, or slope”.

Elsewhere on Islay there is Proaig (NR4557) with Abhainn Phroaig which appears to contain the same element as in this name. MacNiven 2006 gives for this name: [prɔə̆g̥ʲ] and suggests a derivation of ON Breiðvík, ‘broad bay’ which seems reasonable.

The Port Ellen informant understood this name as Latha Phroaig, ‘the day of Proaig’.

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