Talk:Inveresk

message: This needs to establish what Inveresk actually is: is it a village? suburb? district?  Joe D (t) 16:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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message: Can someone, who knows about it, stick some info and links / sources about the Roman settlements nearby? Im interested in knowing more. Thanks ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(Ταλκ) 22:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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message: A.D. Mills' A Dictionary of British Place-Names (https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl0000mill_u9o6) s.n. Esk has a c.1200 form, Ask, meaning "water", from British *isca. Mills also has several places in Inver-:<BR>
* Inver (Inbhear Náile) Donegal. `Estuary of Náile'.
* Inveran (Indreabhán) Galway. `Little estuary'.
* Inveraray Arg. `Mouth of the River Aray'. Gaelic inbhir.
* Invereela (Inbhear Daeile) Wicklow. `Estuary of the (river) Deel'.
* Invergordon Highland. `Gordon's (place at the) river mouth'. Gaelic inbhir. Earlier, the place was known as Inverbreckie, `mouth of the Breckie', from Gaelic inbhir + a river name meaning `speckled' (Gaelic breac).
* Inverkeithing Fife. Hinhirkethy c. 1057, Innerkethyin 1114. `Mouth of the Keithing Burn'. Gaelic inbhir. The river name probably means `wooded stream' (British *ceto-).
* Inverleith Edin. Inerlet c. 1130. `Mouth of the Water of Leith'. Gaelic inbhir.
* Inverness Highland. Invernis 1300. `Mouth of the River Ness'. Gaelic inbhir. The river has a Celtic or pre-Celtic name from a root *ned- `moist'.
* Inverurie Aber. Inverurie 1199, Innervwry c. 1300. `Confluence of the River Urie (and Don)'. Gaelic inbhir + unexplained river name.
Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge Univ. Press (2004) doesn't have any of the Inver- place-names, but s.n. Esk (p. 218):
: River ESK An old European river n. *Eis-kā formed by a k-suffix extension of the IE root *is-/*eis- 'move swiftly, strongly'. BzN 1957.241.
: (1) - Cumbr NY 3666. Esch after 1165, Ask 1194×1214, Eske [c.1205]n.d., 1279, Esk from early 14th. Cu 13, RN 152, BzN 1957.241.
: (2) - Cumbr SD 1297. Esc [c.1140, 1180]n.d., Esk from c.1180, Hesk, Esch, Eske 13th cent. Cu 14, RM 151, BzN 1957.241.
: (3) - NYorks NZ 7207, 8708. Esch 1109×14-[1199]15th, Esk(e) from 1204. YN 3.
Watts Refs:
* Letter/number combos after the headword/subentry are national grid locations.
* BzN - Beitreäge zur Namenforshung by year and page.
* Cu - A.M. Armstrong, A. Mawer, F.M. Stenton and Bruce Dickens. The Place-Names of Cumberland, 3 vols., Cambridge 1950.
* RN - Eilert Ekwall, English River-Names, Oxford 1928.
* YN - A.H. Smith, The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire, Cambridge 1928.
--Gunnora (talk) 16:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
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