English / Map Form: Loch Ussie
Gaelic Form: Loch Ùsaidh
Location: Black Isle and Mid Ross
Post Town: STRATHPEFFER
County: Ross and Cromarty
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Loch Ussie
Gaelic Form: Loch Ùsaidh
Language Notes
G nom. sg. loch, masc. ‘loch’ + ùsaidh obscure element, probably P-CelticElement Meaning
G loch ~ loch; ùsaidh river-name
Sources
| lacu de Usuy | 1463 RMS ii no. 801 |
| Ous | 1476 RMS ii no. 1227 |
| molendinum de Houssy | 1565 iv RMS no. 1618 |
| Litill et Mekill Usie | 1583 RMS v no. 506 |
| L. Owsie | 1636-52 Gordon 21 |
| Meikle-Usie et Litill-Usie | 1633 Retours (Ross) no. 79 |
| Loch Owsie | c. 1620 Pont text 125v |
| terras de Ussie | 1649 RMS ix no. 2140 |
| Loch Eusy | 1747-55 Roy |
| L. Ussie | 1820 Thomson |
| Loch Usaidh | TSR2 |
| ùsaidh | Watson 1904, 105 |
| Ùsaidh | Robertson Collection MS 357, 66 |
Additional Information
The Pont and Gordon forms would tend to corroborate Watson and Robertson’s form with the long [u].
