English / Map Form: Totscore
Gaelic Form: Totasgor
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
Postcode area: IV51
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A855
English / Map Form: Totscore
Gaelic Form: Totasgor
Language Notes
Possibly ON topta-skógar: ON gen. sg. of topt, fem. ‘site of a ruin’ + ON gen. sg. skógr, fem. ‘notch, cleft’ = ‘cleft of the house-site’Element Meaning
ON topt ~ site of a ruin; ON skógr ~ notch, cleft
Sources
| Tobhta Sgoir, house site at the wood, from Norse. | Forbes, 432 | |
| [ˈtʰoʰtəˌskor] | local source, Sgianaidean | |
|
[ˈtʰoʰtəˌskɔ:r] |
local source, Sòdhaigh | |
| [ˈtʰoʰtəˌsko-ər] | Cox, local source |
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