English / Map Form: Leverburgh
Gaelic Form: An Tòb
Location: Na Hearadh ~ Harris
Local Authority: Western Isles
English / Map Form: Leverburgh
Gaelic Form: An Tòb
Genitive Form: an Tòib
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| An t-Òb | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 2007 |
| An t-Òb | Taylor 2007, 108 |
| An t-Òb | Local Informant |
| Sgoil an t-Òib, Cidhe an t-Òib | local signage |
Additional Information
Although this name has commonly been spelt An t-Òb with the genitive an t-Oib, the genitive form shows the name to be an underlying An Tòb. If An t-Òb were the true form, the genitive would be something like *an Ò(i)b.
