English / Map Form: Minginish
Gaelic Form: Minginis
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: ISLE OF SKYE
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: B8809
English / Map Form: Minginish
Gaelic Form: Minginis
Language Notes
Perhaps ON megin-nes: + ON nom. sg. neut. adj. megin, ‘main’ + ON nes, neut. nom. sg. ‘promontory’ = ‘main promontory’Element Meaning
ON megin ~ main; ON nes ~ promontary
Sources
| Myngenes | 1572 RMS iv no. 2093 |
| Meynos (vel Megines) | 1585 Retours (Inverness) no. 9 |
| Megnes | 1626 Retours (Inverness) no. 45 |
| Mingeness | 1644 Pont text 141r |
| Migness | 1655 Retours (Inverness) no. 79 |
| Minganish | 1776 Mackenzie: South part |
| Minginish, Minngnis, Minnhis – uncertain meaning | Forbes, 265 |
| Minginis | Sorley Maclean, An Cuilitheann |
Additional Information
See MacBain 1922, 36 for the derivation