English / Map Form: Marishader
Gaelic Form: Maraiseadar
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A855
English / Map Form: Marishader
Gaelic Form: Maraiseadar
Language Notes
Perhaps ON mara-sœ́tr: gen. pl of ON marr, masc. ‘horse’ + ON sœ́tr, neut. ‘dwelling’ = ‘dwelling of the horses’Element Meaning
Possibly ON marr ~ horse; sœ́tr ~ dwelling
Sources
[‘mariˌʃadər] Cox, local source
Additional Information
See Cox 1990, 108 (entry 40) for further discussion.
