English / Map Form: Tumore
Gaelic Form: An Taobh Mòr
Location: Lairg
Post Town: LAIRG
Postcode area: IV27
County: Sutherland
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Tumore
Gaelic Form: An Taobh Mòr
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Tumore 1820 Forbes
Tumore 1820 Thomson
Taobh mòr: Dwelly
G. “Tu” = taobh, side; and beag, little; “more,” mor, big side of land divided by a river or stream: MacKay
“Taobh has gone a stage further in West Ross and Sutherland as has also craobh in the latter district; both vowels have coalesced into one long Gaelic u, ‘tù,’ ‘crù.’” Robertson, Scottish Gaelic Dialects, Celtic Review, vol iii, 234.
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