River Spey
Uisge Spè
Location
Highland
English / Map Form: River Spey
Gaelic Form: Uisge Spè
Location: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland
County: -- Select a county --
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: River Spey
Gaelic Form: Uisge Spè
Language Notes
Element Meaning
uisge-speith Turner’s Gaelic Poems, 193
Spé: Watson in Dwelly
amhuinn Spe: Dieckhoff
“Locally, the Gaelic for it is Uisge Spé. Watson also gives it as Abhuinn Spé”: N. MacGregor, Gaelic Place-names in Strathspey
Sources
This is an established term.
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