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Salen

An Sàilean

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Meaning

the little inlet of the sea


Settlement

Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

PA72

NM575434


English / Map Form: Salen

Gaelic Form: An Sàilean


Location: Mull, Firth of Lorn, Argyll

Post Town: ISLE OF MULL

Postcode area: PA72

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

Nearest Main Roads: A849

English / Map Form: Salen

Gaelic Form: An Sàilean


Language Notes

G fem. def. art. an (with t- before vowels) + nom. sg. sàilean, fem. = ‘the little inlet of the sea’

Element Meaning

G sàilean ~ little inlet of the sea

Sources

Salein 1801 Langlands

Salan Columkil 1824 Thomson

Salen 1843×1845 NSA vii, 287 et passim [village and parish]

Salen-dubh-Challum chille 1843×1845 NSA vii, 287 [“Near the small village of Salen are the ruins of a cell which belonged to the monastery of Iona. A rivulet which runs past it, is called the Preacher’s Burn, Ald-an-tsearmaniche; and tradition affirms, that it got this name from the circumstance of St Columba’s coming there occasionally to preach. It is said that the want of good water alone prevented his settling there. The village is called Salen-dubh-Challum chille, i.e. Malcolm of the cell’s black bay.”]

Salen burn 1843×1845 NSA vii, 357 [i.e. Allt na Searmoin]

An Sàilein Muileach 1902 Dwelly iii, 1026

’s an t-Sàilean Mhuileach 1939 Mòd Ionadach na Dreòllainne programme [“Mòd Ionadach na Dreòllainne gu bhi air a chumail ’s an t-Sàilean Mhuileach”; dative form; non-slenderisation of noun and adjective indicates that sàilean is masculine; nom. *An Sàilean Muileach; online at https://digital.nls.uk/120754492]

Bun-Sgoil an t-Sàilein 2019 Modern school sign and road sign [genitive form from nom. An Sàilean]

 

Our thanks to Dr Alasdair C. Whyte, University of Glasgow, for the above forms.

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