English / Map Form: Valtos
Gaelic Form: Bhaltos
Location: Skye, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: PORTREE
Postcode area: IV51
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A885
English / Map Form: Valtos
Gaelic Form: Bhaltos
Language Notes
ON vatnlausa: ‘waterless place’Element Meaning
ON vatnlausa ~ waterless place
Sources
| Valtos | 1820 Thomson |
| Valtos: fold ridge, völd-áss vold (sic) for field (Norse) | Forbes, 444 |
| Bhaltos | Sorley Maclean, An Cuilitheann |
Additional Information
This derivation is offered by Oftedal 1954 no. 58, with metathesis of [-tL-] to [-Lt-].
