English / Map Form: River Spey
Gaelic Form: Uisge Spè
Location: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland
Post Town: FOCHABERS
Postcode area: IV32
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Moray
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.
