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Tumore

An Taobh Mòr


Location

Sutherland

Highland

IV27

NC184266


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


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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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