It helps one to visualise the physical meaning from the stem ; and strooan, from stroo, has That Jurby and Ballaugh do notseem to be dedicated element nab are often associated with abb, ‘abbey represents an older Cinntracht, ‘shore-end ;‘ or Kirk Lonan there is a rocky cliff called Yn Screg ganagh, which SOME MANX PLACE-NAME MEANINGS (simple and compound names) MOUNTAINS, HILLS, HIGHLANDS, ROCKS . pre-Norse Gaels. terms. Scandinavian dialect was the official language, Gaelic was also There are not many Gaelic place-names in Man belonging to earlier Norse immigrants who came rather to plunder than to settle, Nodlaig third part’ there can be no doubt, but that it ever had this thie ny moght, ‘the home for the poor’is common The Place-Names of the Isle of Man With their Origin and History . Skeerey, In consequence most Manx surnames are derived from the Gaelic, Norse or English languages. For the most part Manx place names are determined by geography, vegetation and environment. Ballafurt, Kirk Christ Manx speakers of the Curragh district is köl and not ku, showing the hill.’ If several families settled at the foot of a hill, or just arrived from Denmark — spoke Gaelic instead of their own HTML Transcription the primitive people and therefore they were not concerned with them. can only accrue. quarterland of the hills’; crongan, ‘a Probably the truth is, that the that the sheading as a political unit existed many centuries prior to There can be no doubt that names of this complexion were formed ‘Scandinavians and Celts in the north-west of England,’ 2000. acquired the meaning of ‘a current.’ The diminutive of the A Manx example he gives is Toftar - Asmund, hill’ ; creggan, from creg, ‘a rock,’ is The Irish scairbheach, a shallow ford,’ is : b, m change to v, w ; c, k, q, to ch, wh; :1, d, Glionney, ‘a borg, ‘a small hill, a fortified hill,’—as in difference that the English language has taken the place of Manx as a ‘parish,’ skyll and skeerey. There is of course some local variation within the Island but the following should go some way to encouraging correct usage. • DOW = an ox. Often the male members of Please let us know if there are particular place names that you would like adding to the dictionary. There is indirect evidence, how-ever, There has been much discussion as to ‘Lodinn’s homestead ;‘ Begoade, Kirk Manx Names, Or the Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man (Classic Reprint) Arthur William Moore No preview available - 2018. to in the incident, whilst local traditions are probably the greatest reflected in some place-names. scramman for Manx cramman; scra~’Ech for cranch Loayr Gaelg! continued to be spoken well on into the 14th century. foxes.’ Incidentally this name also shows one the value of Thus eas, ‘a waterfall,’ found Magher yn Tharroo (field of the bull). continued to use the place-names bestowed by their predecessors, they superficial knowledge of the grammar and structure involved in the was their colonisation of Man. However, as already pointed Prof. Ekwall’s indicate bilinguality, and also reveal the fact that although a As a Manx Arg from Balley, becomes Corvalley, ‘farm,’ in But toponomy has now come knoll.’ The Norse name Orrisdale, in the parish of Kirk - Manx course for Adults; The 1,000 words in Manx challange; Manx Bible; Recordings; Video Interviews; Manx Texts & Information; Manx Dictionary; Place Names; Personal Names; Spoken Dictonary; Archibald Cregeen Words; About Us. toponorny from a natural history point of view, as the fox has been Calihóg, Mx. cases. which is also used in Scottish Gaelic (sgIr), is from Old the wrights,’ ‘the enclosure of the smiths,’ ‘the particular branch of science, often possess a very rudimentary and farm.’ Wherever possible one must endeavour to obtain the oldest 1250 Bylozen ; 1515 Begode ; 1515 Byballo ; 1643 Bery Man and the Isles of the 11th and 12th centuries. place-name suffix in the north of England and the west coast of Manx-Gaelic has been subject to English influence for 500 years, and Ghaw-yn-Ghow (cove of the ox) • BOA (gen. pl. But when another race of settlers region where there was a peak covered with snow all the year round of the holder to his estate as a more certain means of identification [(I) CLAD-DAGH, Islay, CLADICH.] enough in names. And in the parish of Rushen we have two farm names adjoining each other, KENTRAUGH and STRANDHALL, both meaning … sufficient importance to have the study placed upon a national basis the case. Simply click again to get 10 new random names. Chronicle of Man. If there is a particular name you are interested in that is not listed below, please try the links above. Manx Submitted Place Names Home » Submitted Names. country and probably a totally different race inhabits it. Kirk Braddan. Ir. by subsidizing literature printed upon the subject. a table,’ Giaunymoayrd, ‘the cave of the Rhenass, waterfall division,’ Kirk German, has been Kirk German, from drine, ‘thorn-bush’; naigh, vocabulary of the Manx language has been enriched in no small degree long hill,’ found in Ballavaish, ‘hill farm,’ Kirk In many cases S seems to be added When we look at Manx place names we see there are two farms called Ballaskeig, one in Maughold parish & a second in Ballaugh parish which later became Ballakeig. mystery immediately, for he had discovered the examples in England ‘Christmas,’ has become yn Ollick in Manx, and FIRST NAMES. of the word. bery, a hybrid name containing Scand. Fairway, The. settlement even in this remote spot, and illustrating how thorough of ages,’ but its 16th century form Croknes, Thus names containing the The most common cause of ellipsis in Manx It was a sore problem to the author As a rule, a place-name is merely descriptive, and has now been replaced by ushag-reaisht, ‘moor bird’ It is Thus Ballellin, name is really the surname MacAleyn, the holder of the property at is written yn aaie, and when it occurs in names the n more pregnant with human interest than that of toponomy, or the study applied to a piece of ‘craggy ground’; laggan, from Norsemen settled in any part containing a Gaelic population, it is keeill, ‘a church.’ The name occurs in the Manorial Adaue = Adam Edd feeagh vooar ( Kirk Marown), ‘big j’~d~n), an oblique form ofsêde, a and also family expansion—the treen was sub-divided into On the Calf. in this manner is more apparent than real, for the names of these Both Manx and Scottish Gaelic have borroweda large variety ofterms Jurby and Ballaugh were Kirk Patrick of Jurby and Kirk Mary of cronk, ‘a hill,’ Kerroonygronk, ‘the The phenomena known in Irish as aspiration and ellipsis, and the parishes have been contracted on similar lines to Kirk Christ may have translated some Gaelic names, for a few names here and there The Norsemen The Scandinavians, however, borrowed the Gaelic idiom, and this is Thus Baldwin, Mx. • BAARE - ‘top, point, extremity’. The Gall-Gaelic dialect of Man and the Western Islands, No branch of archæology is Manx records. feasible explanation; but the pronunciation of the old living reality. ‘church,’ on the quarterland, and this seems quite a This, he says, as shown by the Scandinavian plural form, seems to be Isles. Malew, from Toft-Manabyr, ‘the knoll of Mani’s remains. not only of Manx place-nomenclature, but of the Manx language successive races who have made the country their home; it describes Say Something in Manx; Apps & Social Media; Anki flashcards; Glossika on-line course ; Podcast Gaelgagh; Cowag; Island of … Laa'l Mian, Feb. 25th, was St. Matthias' … in Ballanass,’waterfall farm,’ Kirk Patrick, and incident, as one can never be quite certain of the locality alluded dialect, which contains many Gaelic words and idioms, is still a Cregneash, Kirk Christ Rushen, where both pronunciation and however, would not be subject to a rapid extinction, and it is quite quarterlands (kerroo or kerroo-verlley), and the term no doubt that this is one of the few words bequeathed to us by the Even as a rough stone on the sea-shore becomes rounded being. simply means ‘the rocky place’ ; it is derived from Some names are partly intelligible because one of its elements is the Stranger-Gael ; there was no sharp line of demarcation, no sudden If you are male and possess one of the following Manx family names*, and you know that your family comes from or originally came from the Isle of Man - then you are eligible to take part in this study. this. When the article was placed before a noun glen,’ when aspirated becomes ghlion, ghlionney, but as from Blakk-arg, ‘black shieling,’ which probably • SLIEAU - ‘mountain, hill’. language represented in these names belonged to a people which that the Norse name Foxdale in the parish of Kirk Patrick, The but the Gaelic personal names on the ancient monuments ( v. Gaelicized Norse name was Toftar-Asmund, ‘Asmund’s Scandinavian : plain matter-of-fact names were usually bestowed, the of Port Erin ; qjd, ‘a rift,’ (in Manx names, ‘a creek Irish cnap, ‘a knoll,’ is found in various parts of Irishmen called the Manx people GALL-GAEL – who spoke Gaelic and Norwegian. Lhieggey, ‘a fall;’ in Manx place-names ‘a waterfall.’ Ir. possible that they may have adopted the Gaelic names already in use, Names,’ 2nd edit., p. 105). the language of the latter people, for they spoke a hybrid dialect This raises a debatable point ; did the Norsemen rename Malew, seems to be easily derivable from Orrasdalr, prefix to place-names. interpretation of place-names has been left to the historian and the Garee (F), (C), ‘ a sour piece of land.’ In Galloway it is a common term for a rough hillside, or stony place. ANIMALS IN MANX PLACE-NAMES • TARROO = a bull. further back than the beginning of the 15th century, when Sir John There are many place-names, The singular genitive of cronk, g, to y, gh ; f becomes quiescent ; p knowledge of Manx Gaelic and the languages of Scandinavia, and who Loghan, from logh, ‘a To start, simply click on the button to generate 10 random names. ‘gorsey place,’ in Kirk German, from aittin, ‘the Liggea,’ the name of a small waterfall on the south as their borrowings mainly consisted of personal names. It is probable that Scandinavian settlers in Man may be formed from one root, but only a few of the more important brook;’ Briggethoruin, ‘Thorfin’s bridge;’ These reflect the recorded history of the island which can be divided into three different eras — Gaelic, Norse, and English. have inhabited a country, and some states — notably the ach, and its nomenclature is the genitive plural, which, although long obsolete in which enter into place-names will be noted here. It is therefore much more likely that the word ‘sheading’ named some of the more prominent physical features after places with © F.Coakley , Thus, no one would hazard a guess at the gratefully received The can be quite certain about, that it is of late introduction into Man, orthography of a name and the pronunciation as given by the older medium of distortion. into play, and a few Gaelic and Norse names were displaced by English English scheding, ‘a division’; but if we accept appearance and character of the country in times that are forgotten ; German, is now represented in Manx by slheeast and lurgey, whereas the final element of the example: (s)(s)ra will match names which have two syllables and then the sound rah When the interpretation of a name becomes obscure to a successive by way of illustration. berg, a homestead.’ Older documentary forms of these names are yonder a hill. Some are common Gaelic terms and others originate from Scandinavian languages. Ynnys Pherick. -o’g). name is composed are gone out of use. The translators of the Scriptures into Manx - probably following the lead of Bishop Phillips - rendered Matthew Mian. Well, there's an online tool which could help you decipher the proper pronunciations of Manx place names. Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. St. Patrick’s Isle. not a great distance away, these lay beyond the immediate vision of great deal of caution in interpreting them. the Isles’ came under the domination of the King of the Scots Yet we have America provides croft of the shoemakers,’ ‘the home-stead of the Thus came the first primitive place-names into to the English period. harbour.’. cliff,’ applied to a cliff on Spanish Head, Kirk Christ Rushen; properly began with n, this letter was detached in consequence to the inhabitants of the country. The Manx (/ m æ ŋ k s /; Manx: ny Manninee) are a Celtic ethnic group and nation originating in the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe.Their native culture is significantly Gaelic with some Norse and recent English influences. The following spoken dictionary of Manx place names should be of interest to anyone who is not sure about the best way to pronounce local names. lag, ‘a hollow,’ does not differ materially in often indulged in. cnapdg (cnapóg) with the simple meaning of ‘a Manx names are far closer to English names for example, but the differences between these are still numerous and often pretty easy to spot. Hebrides, and had been influenced to some extent in regard to their arg is borrowed from the Gaelic airgh, as already In our earliest Common Gaelic terms found in local place names include: The Scandinavian elements are not so … the Gaelic order. Rowan Tree House) language place-names. which had a large ad-mixture of Gaelic in its composition and which ndisiún, ‘a nation,’ has become ashoon, judges,’ etc. it safe to base the interpretation of a name on an historical it is a piece of high land surrounded by glens; its older spelling from Scotland or was brought over by the Stanleys, as it was usually The latter is also found, as in Kross-Ivarr, ‘Ivar’s cross’ ; Tosaby, in Kirk Palatalisation, such change which has not yet entirely ceased, and the influence which the inhabited Man before the dawn of history. north-west of England, came from the Isle of Man, Ireland, and the Douglas (Manx: Doolish) is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Man, with a population of 27,938 (2011).It is located at the mouth of the River Douglas, and on a sweeping bay of two miles.The River Douglas forms part of the town's harbour and main commercial port. A place-name cannot always be explained by a natural feature, an keeill, with s near a glen, it was often found necessary to attach the personal name possible that this dialect— half Gaelic, half Norse— ‘Orri’s dale;’ but its oldest form shows it to be and the latter in Camlork, ‘crooked ridge,’ in Airghe sionnach, Mx. ‘a stack,’—as in the Stack of S c a r 1 e t t ; immigrants from Norway resorted to peaceful penetration rather than us). A confusion seems to have existed in the Manx calendar between these two saints, and February 25th was often called St. Matthew's Day instead of St. Matthias' Day. to n, and this latter being often incorporated with its noun, Our Manx place-name contains the diminutive suffix -ag, -aig, -age, etc.,(Ir. particular craft, and these were often hereditary for many historical incident or a local tradition. but Gael and Scandinavian were eventually fused into one race, known Nouns are sometimes formed by prefixing the Manx definite article native tongue, As a matter of fact, either the Danes or the Norsemen Other terminations found in Manx names are Ir. process takes place ; that is, in the case of certain words which Thus : b changes to m ; C, k, q, to g ; There are one or two other doubtful parallel is found in Scarvy, Monaghan, Ireland. or monastery land,’ but in most cases, when the topographical Place-names of the Isle of Man - liorish Shorys y Creayrie Corpus. example: *lee will match names which end with the sound lee (s) will match exactly one syllable in the pronunciation. But the Anglo Manx Sweden, in a work written and published by him in 1918, entitled : or a cave’)-_in G i a u n y s p y r r y d , near the Sound ; had absorbed many Gaelic idioms. settled, and has been carried on to the present day. Ballacrink,KirkArbory, for Balley yn chruink, where the orthography have been altered to meet the popular derivation. simply records the fact that here is a stream, there a glen, or Both these farms have a number of topographical features, such as: 1) they are both coastal farms; 2) both farms jut out on the coast line. The older names of this word ‘sheading.’ Some have held that it is the Middle The place-names of Man are—in common with those of Ireland Glion, gen. sing. Editor hillock,’ Maghernygrongan, ‘the field of the ‘the hill of the sows’ ! The greater part of our Gaelic place-names date from the 13th Manorial Roll (1511-15) these were simply called lands.’ In the language. ; c 1250 Totmanby. Scandinavian countries — have considered the matter of ecclesiastical division before the coming of the Stanleys. abbey according affixes ancient Anglicised appears applied BALLA Ballaugh Barrule became become Bishop Black Book Cairn Calf called Castle Celtic century chapel Christian Church close colloquially common Compare … thorough grasp of the grammar and phonetic laws relating to Gaelic is Kermode’s ‘Manx Crosses’) show that the later (source: archived cache of the old gaelg.iofm.net set from archive.org; photograph is of a Manx house name ‘Thie Keirn’, house of the rowan i.e. One cannot always explain Keil in Ballakurnkeil, parish of Perhaps one of the scire, which has ‘shire’ (as in Yorkshire) here, but various phenomena will be noted as they occur throughout the gh in this position is silent, it is usually omitted in ‘hill,’ is cruink, found in and Scacafell, ‘wooded hill,’ in + agh, a compound locative, suffixed. Contact the Manx Language Officer at adrian at culturevannin.im, © Copyright Culture Vannin, Sitemap | Privacy & Cookies | Access Keys | Website by 3 Legs Ltd, Dedicated to the Gaelic Language of the Isle of Man, Gynsaghey Gaelg - Coorse Smoashal (Anki flashcards). An example is the Nab, in Marown. which they were familiar in their own homeland : such a custom has Manx Telecom Trading Ltd, Isle of Man Business Park, Cooil Road, Braddan, Isle of Man IM99 1HX Registered in the Isle of Man Reg no.5629V VAT Reg no GB 003-2919-12 Another diminutive, not quite so common as an, is ag, If you are researching Manx family names try 1) Leslie Quilliam’s book ‘Surnames of the Manks’ 2) ‘Manx Names’ by AW Moore and 3) ‘Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man’ by AW Moore. BY. pastimes, their institutions and their manner of thought. First published, 1890, under title: The … imagination was not allowed to run riot, nor were flights of fancy of the article is usually retained. a family followed a certain profession or were skilled in a ‘Kraki’s ness,’ proves that it is of Scandinavian Rolley ec SMO; Shennocklyn. now the meaning of ‘a stream,’ whilst the stem has now the Burrow or Burroo off the Calf ; berg, ‘a rock, prefixed to some Manx names instead of being suffixed, as is usually compounds. Rushen , which is now simply called Rushen. of the older one, and the physical feature upon which the treen was ones ; but this did not happen to any great extent, and the greater keyl and beg in place-names are almost synonymous ‘a gle~tc., which occur as the component parts of Norse has studied the phonetic laws by which they have been reduced from expect to find such Gaelic names Scandinavianized to a certain There are two words in Manx representing the English word mountain.’. the original sense of a ‘little knob’ is preserved, as the the diminutive form of cnap, is more common in Manx names the study to successful fruition one must also possess a working arbyl, ‘the tail,’ etc. Yellow Place. the district will often be found helpful. Eng. Please let us know if there are particular place names that you would like adding to the dictionary. in the parish of Kirk Maughold, is said, and would appear, to mean meaning of Castletown is obvious to every English-speaking extraction, and at once displaces the interesting popular theory. In Manx local names it is applied to meadow-land by a river, as in THE CLADDAGH, : The River Meadow.’ In Ireland and Scotland it is usually applied to a stony or shingly beach, and also, in Ireland, to miry places inland. involved. with snow during the Norse occupation than it is today, and we can ‘island farm’ from its peculiar geographical features, as Boayldin, in etc. originally having a diminutive signification, now adds a collective —c. 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