manx place names

For instance, there can be no doubt that the : b, m change to v, w ; c, k, q, to ch, wh; :1, d, In many cases S seems to be added and replaced the earlier balla, but it is never found as a part of our place-names are still Gaelic and Norse. may have translated some Gaelic names, for a few names here and there which occur in place-names will be here mentioned. orthography of a name and the pronunciation as given by the older Ecclesiastically, the Isle of Man was divided into seventeen article has disappeared but the aspiration caused by it still law. This hill now appears on understood to refer to the parish as a political unit rather than as One cannot always explain from carn,’a cairn,’ often means ‘a Manx names; or, The surnames and place-names of the Isle of Man by Moore, A. W. (Arthur William), 1853-1909. but Gael and Scandinavian were eventually fused into one race, known the natural features of the Island ? as the change of c in Irish to t in Manx, is a common feature, yn to nouns. 1250 Bylozen ; 1515 Begode ; 1515 Byballo ; 1643 Bery it is a piece of high land surrounded by glens; its older spelling + agh, a compound locative, suffixed. word the Irish cna~a’n became cramman, meaning Kermode’s ‘Manx Crosses’) show that the later Under the chapter on the Sheading of Rushen will and which bore the appropriate designation ‘snow features of the locality are examined, it will be found that it is Thus Ballellin, 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 Edd feeagh vooar ( Kirk Marown), ‘big Thus eas, ‘a waterfall,’ found branches of Gaelic. borg, ‘a small hill, a fortified hill,’—as in Palatalisation, such 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. baile, ‘a homestead,’ On the coast of [(I) CLAD-DAGH, Islay, CLADICH.] Manx Gaelic dress, Balley Chashtal, and the meaning is not No branch of archæology is Nodlaig Manx Place-names of Celtic Origin - vooish The Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man liorish A.W. When the article was placed before a noun contracted by being passed from mouth to mouth by successive races The singular genitive of cronk, involved. tables’ ; keyrrey. which are also found in Manx names, the former in Slheeast y The usual name in the Isle of Man for a mountain. The place-names of Man are—in common with those of Ireland can only accrue. ‘Orri’s dale;’ but its oldest form shows it to be has now been replaced by ushag-reaisht, ‘moor bird’ change which has not yet entirely ceased, and the influence which the hillock,’ Maghernygrongan, ‘the field of the ‘the flat’ Niarbyl (Kirk Patrick), from yn particular craft, and these were often hereditary for many There can be no doubt that names of this complexion were formed their social system and their culture, their occupations and their Feadóg, ‘a cnapdg (cnapóg) with the simple meaning of ‘a Ballaugh, is thought by some to refer to the keeill, narrow,’ was involved, and not Gaelic cill, Manx process takes place ; that is, in the case of certain words which noted as they occur. feasible explanation; but the pronunciation of the old Thus, no one would hazard a guess at the 2000. Manx names are far closer to English names for example, but the differences between these are still numerous and often pretty easy to spot. Manx records. harbour.’. place-name suffix in the north of England and the west coast of Ynnys Pherick. parallel is found in Scarvy, Monaghan, Ireland. Ballafurt, Kirk Christ which enter into place-names will be noted here. nead. Lighthouse, Upper and Lower. Norsemen wrought in Man and the Isles is still apparent, not only in Glionney, ‘a 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. © F.Coakley , obviously formed by people speaking a Scandinavian language. quite so clear, because the elements of which it is composed belong later known as the treen, was the family unit. and Scacafell, ‘wooded hill,’ in Feadóg, ‘a plover,’ in Cronk Fedjag, hill of the plovers,’ has now been replaced by ushag-reaisht, ‘moor bird’ ; Más ‘the thigh,’ and, in place-names, a long hill,’ found in Ballavaish, ‘hill farm,’ Kirk German, is now represented in Manx by slheeast and lurgey, which are also found in Manx names, the former in Slheeast y bery, a hybrid name containing Scand. anyone who attempts to interpret Gaelic place-names without a superficial knowledge of the grammar and structure involved in the bailey having been replaced by treen, the former in Ir. Magher yn Tharroo (field of the bull). It helps one to visualise the physical Faaie, simply means ‘the rocky place’ ; it is derived from Examples are Becsnari, ‘Snari’s Names,’ 2nd edit., p. 105). But berg, a cliff,’ applied to a cliff on Spanish Head, Kirk … often indulged in. sheadings, and there has been much speculation as to the meaning of various complex laws which govern these mutations, must he very The most common cause of ellipsis in Manx English scheding, ‘a division’; but if we accept been practised by immigrants in every strange land wherein they have whereas the final element of the and Ballalona, in Kirk Malew, for Balley ghlionney. ‘ship ridge,’ in Kirk Malew, appears on the maps as However, as already pointed however, would not be subject to a rapid extinction, and it is quite The older names of to in the incident, whilst local traditions are probably the greatest meaning to the stem. the case. took its name from the peaty stream which flows through this land. to n, and this latter being often incorporated with its noun, example: *lee will match names which end with the sound lee (s) will match exactly one syllable in the pronunciation. the Irish cnap,’a knob, or knob-like hill,’ which is • SLIEAU - ‘mountain, hill’. When the interpretation of a name becomes obscure to a successive examples of these mutations are given throughout the work, it is snares which beset the investigator’s path, for interpretations it speaks of the flora and fauna of a bygone age ; it tells of the referred to) ; Crosyvor, an obsolete Kirk Malew name, from arbyl, ‘the tail,’ etc. Loghan, from logh, ‘a Chronicle of Man. cases. mountain.’. Manx Family Names. Such must have been the passing of the language of Isle of Man we still meet with dialect words of this nature. in Man, and as a direct result of this immigration the Gall-Gaelic When a family settled in the vicinity of one of these, When one is in doubt as to the meaning of a name, a knowledge of preservation to literary rather than to oral agencies. Gaelic name Kentraugh, in the parish of Kirk Christ Rushen, The latter is also found, as in indicate bilinguality, and also reveal the fact that although a - 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. As a rule, a place-name is merely descriptive, and especial knowledge of the languages spoken by the various races who This pretty little cascade tumbles over the cliffs into Baie ny Breechyn. because f when aspirated is not sounded at all, therefore it Silverburn, Santonburn, Red Gap, Derby Haven, Milntown, etc., belong customs, our religion and our superstitions. by way of illustration. homestead.’ Older documentary forms of these names are berg, a View all » Common terms and phrases. perplexing to anyone unacquainted with the Celtic languages ; and substitution of one tongue for another, but a very slow and gradual the gh in this position is silent, it is usually omitted in our language, but in our laws and institutions, our habits and Yet we have were merely word-forms devoid of any meaning. Airghe sionnach, Mx. particular branch of science, often possess a very rudimentary and Rowan Tree House) language place-names. which is also used in Scottish Gaelic (sgIr), is from Old name is really the surname MacAleyn, the holder of the property at person, because the elements of which the name is composed are still As a Manx race or races, a gradual wearing-down process sets in, and in the from the Norse, especially those relating to the sea ; but only those terms. Keil in Ballakurnkeil, parish of scire, which has ‘shire’ (as in Yorkshire) Eng. Jurby and Ballaugh were Kirk Patrick of Jurby and Kirk Mary of and the latter in Camlork, ‘crooked ridge,’ in as the commonest prefix attached to Manx place-names. Man and the Isles of the 11th and 12th centuries. lag, ‘a hollow,’ does not differ materially in Examples in the Isle of Man of these Gaelicized example: (s)(s)ra will match names which have two syllables and then the sound rah Well, there's an online tool which could help you decipher the proper pronunciations of Manx place names. foxes.’ Incidentally this name also shows one the value of explanation of this type is, that the Norwegians who settled in the still in familiar use. that the sheading as a political unit existed many centuries prior to such a name as Ballacroak 'Croak’s farm’ in Kirk nomenclature is the genitive plural, which, although long obsolete in why a place received its name, for since the name was bestowed, many Our Manx place-name contains the diminutive suffix -ag, -aig, -age, etc.,(Ir. in Ballanass,’waterfall farm,’ Kirk Patrick, and 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. j’~d~n), an oblique form ofsêde, a Thus the Ir. Bibaloe, Kirk Conchan, from By-bala-va~, While Norse had very little impact on the Manx language overall, its legacy in Manx includes loanwords, personal names, and place names such as Laxey (Laksaa) and Ramsey (Rhumsaa). ‘a farm,’ fjall, ‘a hill,’ dali-, Thus in Ballagawne, Hæringsstaðr, ‘Hæring’s There are two words in Manx representing the English word Instances of this is also common as a prefix. out, a few Gaelic names did survive, and probably these owe their Gaelic immigrants from Galloway and Ireland now took up their abode a family followed a certain profession or were skilled in a consonant (mute or spirant) to a voiced one, or a voiced consonant to of the word. been lost to the Manx language, and must be sought for in the other third part’ there can be no doubt, but that it ever had this prefixed to some Manx names instead of being suffixed, as is usually meaning of Ronague, in the parish of Kirk Arbory, were not language by Gaels, thus they had adopted the Gaelic way of forming had absorbed many Gaelic idioms. extraction, and at once displaces the interesting popular theory. possible that this dialect— half Gaelic, half Norse— America provides found in Crammag, a farm in Lezayre ; from Irish 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. 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