English / Map Form: Portsoy
Gaelic Form: Port Saoidh
Location: Banffshire
Post Town: BANFF
Postcode area: AB45
County: Banffshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Portsoy
Gaelic Form: Port Saoidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G port ~ harbour; saoidh ~ saithe, coalfish
Sources
porst-so:i (in Gael. – soy has 2 syllables): Diack MS2276
Port-sōĭ: Diack MS22276
pɔrs̆t ‘so:i : Dorian place-name survey
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