English / Map Form: Phantassie
Gaelic Form: Fàn Taisidh
Post Town: HADDINGTON
Postcode area: EH41
County: East Lothian
Local Authority: East Lothian
English / Map Form: Phantassie
Gaelic Form: Fàn Taisidh
Sources
“Phantassie is probably fan taise, slope of softness,’ i.e. wetness; there is also Phantassie in Fife, near West Wemyss.” Watson 1926, 142
Taylor says of Phantassie in Fife: “Dwelly does not list taise as a noun, but rather taisead, from OIr. taise. Besides modern G tais ‘damp’, there is also taiseach, which might equally have supplied the specific here.”
