English / Map Form: Sheader
Gaelic Form: Siadar
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
Postcode area: IV51
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A87
English / Map Form: Sheader
Gaelic Form: Siadar
Language Notes
ON sœ́tr, neut. ‘dwelling’Element Meaning
ON sœ́tr ~ dwelling
Sources
| Siadar | Mackenzie 1931, 48 |
| Sheader, Shadder: called sheader or siader… Siadair | Forbes, 328 |
Additional Information
Forbes spells the word Siadair in a rhyme he quotes with no article. See Cox 1990, 106, entry 30 and Oftedal 1954, no. 12 for further discussion.