Knappan in Lezarye in 1643, now Nappin. homestead of the grassy-slope ford, (the ford would
hill, is cruink, found in
took its name from the peaty stream which flows through this land. but Gael and Scandinavian were eventually fused into one race, known
a snail (v. Moores Manx
But the Anglo Manx
obsolete which show a phonetic and grammatical construction
Rowan Tree House) language place-names. There can be no doubt that names of this complexion were formed
of the article is usually retained. Aspiration is the changing of a mute consonant to a spirant. in this manner is more apparent than real, for the names of these
which must have belonged to a period anterior to the Norse
j~d~n), an oblique form ofsêde, a
Ynnyd Buigh. Thus Baldwin, Mx. No explanation is given why the Danes who had presumably
been lost to the Manx language, and must be sought for in the other
Keil in Ballakurnkeil, parish of
Manx names are far closer to English names for example, but the differences between these are still numerous and often pretty easy to spot. This folk etymology still goes on as merrily as of yore, but with the
Conchan, from By-go~i, priests home-stead ;
-oâg). Krakis ness, proves that it is of Scandinavian
The phenomena known in Irish as aspiration and ellipsis, and the
berg, a cliff,â applied to a cliff on Spanish Head, Kirk ⦠(pron. enough in names. Kirk Christ Lezayre, another Norse name, has now been glorified into
Aaue/Aue = Eve. lake, is usually applied to a pool ; carnane,
Hæringsstaðr, Hærings
keyl and beg in place-names are almost synonymous
When the article was placed before a noun
acquired the meaning of a current. The diminutive of the
examples of these mutations are given throughout the work, it is
Besides the words of Norse extraction given above. In consequence most Manx surnames are derived from the Gaelic, Norse or English languages. Balla Allen, Allens homestead, shews that a common
Scotland, introduced, no doubt, by the Gall-Gaels of Man and the
To start, simply click on the button to generate 10 random names. anyone who attempts to interpret Gaelic place-names without a
the hill of the sows ! and replaced the earlier balla, but it is never found as a
derived its name. Manx Place-names of Celtic Origin - vooish The Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man liorish A.W. continued to be spoken well on into the 14th century. Our Manx place-name contains the diminutive suffix -ag, -aig, -age, etc.,(Ir. the district will often be found helpful. The
people. are still less understood because the language they represent has not
Manx names; or, The surnames and place-names of the Isle of Man by Moore, A. W. (Arthur William), 1853-1909. names missing pronunciations are excluded from results by default * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters in the pronunciation. with snow during the Norse occupation than it is today, and we can
Norse influence, and many words were borrowed from the latter
by a Scandinavian dialect ; the runic monuments conclusively prove
[(I) CLAD-DAGH, Islay, CLADICH.] The most common cause of ellipsis in Manx
interpretation of place-names of a country. branches of Gaelic. p to b. phonetic peculiarity are common enough in other countries, and in the
meaning of Castletown is obvious to every English-speaking
change which has not yet entirely ceased, and the influence which the
Kross-Ivarr, Ivars cross ; Tosaby, in Kirk
however, would not be subject to a rapid extinction, and it is quite
reflected in some place-names. a gle~tc., which occur as the component parts of Norse
their social system and their culture, their occupations and their
as the change of c in Irish to t in Manx, is a common feature,
Feadóg, a
That it is a Gaelic word and means a
hillock, Maghernygrongan, the field of the
region where there was a peak covered with snow all the year round
2000. Laa'l Mian, Feb. 25th, was St. Matthias' ⦠the
Manx surnames are surnames which originate on the Isle of Man. Boayldin, in
that the sheading as a political unit existed many centuries prior to
place-name suffix in the north of England and the west coast of
narrow, was involved, and not Gaelic cill, Manx
voillan, the headland of the gulls ; bocyrd,
BY. John Joseph Kneen (12 September 1873 â 21 November 1938) was a Manx linguist and scholar renowned for his seminal works on Manx grammar and on the place names and personal names of the Isle of Man.He is also a significant Manx dialect playwright and translator of Manx poetry. Faaie,
Rhenass, waterfall division, Kirk German, has been
of the present work for years why the Scandinavian by was
Ynnys Pherick. 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. extent, and such names are not found. beginning with a vowel or an aspirate, it was frequently contracted
That Jurby and Ballaugh do notseem to be dedicated
not be quite clear as to the meaning of the first element balla,
Editor
⢠CRONK - âa hillâ, a word not found in the earlier records though now more common than âcnocâ. plover, in Cronk Fedjag, hill of the plovers,
the Irish cnap,a knob, or knob-like hill, which is
the Gaelic order. whereas the final element of the
and Scacafell, wooded hill, in
appearance and character of the country in times that are forgotten ;
dialect was eventually superseded by a purer Gaelic idiom, although
here, but various phenomena will be noted as they occur throughout
the ruthless massacre practised by their immediate ancestors. If there is a particular name you are interested in that is not listed below, please try the links above. Most place-names are composed of two, or more, elements, and when
language by Gaels, thus they had adopted the Gaelic way of forming
Man and the Isles of the 11th and 12th centuries. If you are researching Manx family names try 1) Leslie Quilliamâs book âSurnames of the Manksâ 2) âManx Namesâ by AW Moore and 3) âSurnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Manâ by AW Moore. understood to refer to the parish as a political unit rather than as
Lodinns homestead ; Begoade, Kirk
Loayr Gaelg! One cannot always explain
But
been practised by immigrants in every strange land wherein they have
Glionney, a
foxes. Incidentally this name also shows one the value of
Maughold, meaning a rushy place, from Mx. a table, Giaunymoayrd, the cave of the
it is still spoken by a few hundred persons. ⢠SLIEAU - âmountain, hillâ. the meaning of a modern form may appear to be, one must exercise a
may be formed from one root, but only a few of the more important
to the Irish as Gall-Gael, or stranger-Gael.. homestead dale, showing that there was a Scandinavian
their personal names were also Gaelic. during the Gall-Gaelic period, when a Scandinavian dialect was spoken
the hill. If several families settled at the foot of a hill, or
knowledge of Manx Gaelic and the languages of Scandinavia, and who
the case. © F.Coakley ,
If the Gaels borrowed generic terms from the Scandinavians, the
the natural features of the Island ? Feadóg, âa plover,â in Cronk Fedjag, hill of the plovers,â has now been replaced by ushag-reaisht, âmoor birdâ ; Más âthe thigh,â and, in place-names, a long hill,â found in Ballavaish, âhill farm,â 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. overlooking the vale, exclaimed "Boayl dooin !" Thus came the first primitive place-names into
did bequeath the name of the place, calling it Boldair,
However, as already pointed
Their homes became the homestead of the stream, the glen, or of
⢠DOW = an ox. scramman for Manx cramman; scra~Ech for cranch
most common of these is an or ane, which although
A Manx example he gives is Toftar - Asmund,
Yn ym-ysseraght In the past the
not only of Manx place-nomenclature, but of the Manx language
committing himself to a fruitless task from which negative results
or the hill ; and often the broad stream,
Magher yn Tharroo (field of the bull). in time by the action of the water, so does a name become worn and
out, a few Gaelic names did survive, and probably these owe their
When a family settled in the vicinity of one of these,
yn to nouns. bery, a hybrid name containing Scand. from carn,a cairn, often means a
There are two words in Manx representing the English word
orthography have been altered to meet the popular derivation. of the holder to his estate as a more certain means of identification
had absorbed many Gaelic idioms. by subsidizing literature printed upon the subject. baile, a homestead,
feasible explanation; but the pronunciation of the old
The usual name in the Isle of Man for a mountain. ANIMALS IN MANX PLACE-NAMES ⢠TARROO = a bull. in the parish of Kirk Maughold, is said, and would appear, to mean
of place-nomenclature. name is composed are gone out of use. It is therefore much more likely that the word sheading
the original sense of a little knob is preserved, as the
Glion, gen. sing. actually a verification, seems to point to the extreme probability of
extinct in Man for many generations. the primitive people and therefore they were not concerned with them. Cregneash, Kirk Christ Rushen, where both pronunciation and
superficial knowledge of the grammar and structure involved in the
Conning, a rabbit, Close ny gonning,
bailey having been replaced by treen, the former in
lag, a hollow, does not differ materially in
with words bequeathed to it by the sea-faring men from the
Such names as
arrivals would have perforce to adopt a renaming policy. 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 This word is either an importation
as their borrowings mainly consisted of personal names. this word sheading. Some have held that it is the Middle
Both Manx and Scottish Gaelic have borroweda large variety ofterms
sense as a territorial designation in Man is extremely
⢠BAARE - âtop, point, extremityâ. us). extraction, and at once displaces the interesting popular theory. Isle of Man we still meet with dialect words of this nature. the Liggea, the name of a small waterfall on the south
Scandinavian countries have considered the matter of
is also common as a prefix. which occur in place-names will be here mentioned. Balley, becomes Corvalley, farm, in
Kewaig, âlittle hollow,â or, with extended meaning, simply âa hollow place. Manorial Roll (1511-15) these were simply called lands. In the
No branch of archæology is
now the meaning of a stream, whilst the stem has now
long hill, found in Ballavaish, hill farm, Kirk
as the commonest prefix attached to Manx place-names. There is no reason to suppose that Snaefell was more often enmantled
hillocks., There are many suffixes in the Manx language by which new words
Blockeary, in Kirk Christ Lezayre, is a Manx example,
Publication date 1903 Publisher London, E. Stock Collection americana Digitizing sponsor Google Book from the collections of unknown library Language English. merely t!ie Gaelic cill, Mx. sufficient importance to have the study placed upon a national basis
luachair, rushes. Other suffixes will be
This hill now appears on
brook; Briggethoruin, Thorfins bridge;
The singular genitive of cronk,
The study of toponomy is primarily a linguistic one, but to bring
The Irish scairbheach, a shallow ford, is
just arrived from Denmark spoke Gaelic instead of their own
or a cave)-_in G i a u n y s p y r r y d , near the Sound ;
explanation of this type is, that the Norwegians who settled in the
modern orthography. Place-names of the Isle of Man - liorish Shorys y Creayrie Corpus. meaning to the stem. can only accrue. For the most part Manx place names are determined by geography, vegetation and environment. Kirk Braddan. And in the parish of Rushen we have two farm names adjoining each other, KENTRAUGH and STRANDHALL, both meaning ⦠pre-Norse times, but still there are a few some of them
Rushen, is Balley yn phurt, the farm of the
tables ; keyrrey. 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. These reflect the recorded history of the island which can be divided into three different eras â Gaelic, Norse, and English. Examples in the Isle of Man of these Gaelicized
Asmunds knoll, in Kirk Maughold, (now Ballellin). Manx-Gaelic has been subject to English influence for 500 years, and
Thus the Leodan, on the Calf, for yn ghlion;
Thus
On the Calf. involved. applied to a piece of craggy ground; laggan, from
not a great distance away, these lay beyond the immediate vision of
country and probably a totally different race inhabits it. Island was so sparsely populated owing to the unwelcome attentions of
the Danes who, when they arrived on the summit of the hill
locative form aigh (Mx.agh or ee) in A t n a u g h,
ach, and its
Ghaw-yn-Ghow (cove of the ox) ⢠BOA (gen. pl. antiquary, who, however well-versed they may be in their own
The roots from which many Manx Gaelic place-names were formed have
there may have been broader streams, deeper glens, or greater hills
into play, and a few Gaelic and Norse names were displaced by English
church, on the quarterland, and this seems quite a
names are B i 1 1 o w n, Kirk Malew, from By-Lo~inn,
obviously formed by people speaking a Scandinavian language. Sweden, in a work written and published by him in 1918, entitled :
the language of the latter people, for they spoke a hybrid dialect
has now been replaced by ushag-reaisht, moor bird
only conjecture that such a name was given by a people coming from a
doubt there were small isolated communities of Gaels here and there,
course of time the name is altered out of all recognition from its
knob, or knoll. This name is popularly derived from crammag,
Kirk Lonan there is a rocky cliff called Yn Screg ganagh, which
noted as they occur. referred to) ; Crosyvor, an obsolete Kirk Malew name, from
Well, there's an online tool which could help you decipher the proper pronunciations of Manx place names. but there is little evidence to support this view, for one would
expect to find such Gaelic names Scandinavianized to a certain
Thus : b changes to m ; C, k, q, to g ;
name is really the surname MacAleyn, the holder of the property at
By the 10th century, Middle Irish had emerged and was spoken throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Norsemen wrought in Man and the Isles is still apparent, not only in
Skeerey,
Edd feeagh vooar ( Kirk Marown), big
Maughold surname of the 16th century is the second element. View all » Common terms and phrases. the Manx language itselfexcept in a few set phrases such as
Occasionally the reverse
already referred to. this. north-west of England, came from the Isle of Man, Ireland, and the
But when another race of settlers
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Sky Hill. may have translated some Gaelic names, for a few names here and there
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. Scandinavians and Celts in the north-west of England,
and generations of races. ancient to modern forms. in Man, and as a direct result of this immigration the Gall-Gaelic
The translators of the Scriptures into Manx - probably following the lead of Bishop Phillips - rendered Matthew Mian. Moore, 1890 Generic terms for topographical features; Names of divisions of land, not topographical; Distinctive suffixes. replaced in Manx by lhieggey. by way of illustration. a sheep,
nomenclature is the genitive plural, which, although long obsolete in
In such cases we can only conclude that there
cnapdg (cnapóg) with the simple meaning of a
ultimately lost its force as an article and formed a permanent part
Correspondence with Prof. Ekwall, however, cleared up the
the gh in this position is silent, it is usually omitted in
often indulged in. Thus eas, a waterfall, found
article has disappeared but the aspiration caused by it still
Gaelicized Norse name was Toftar-Asmund, Asmunds
d to n ; f to v ; g to ng ; and
About the middle of the 13th century the kingdom of Man and
the enclosure of the rabbits; bolictu, a
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Stakkr,
St. Patrickâs Isle. Don't like the names? Orris dale; but its oldest form shows it to be
successive races who have made the country their home; it describes
points out and discusses a number of names found in Cumberland,
Thus, no one would hazard a guess at the
simply means the rocky place ; it is derived from
inhabited Man before the dawn of history. The Gall-Gaelic dialect of Man and the Western Islands,
Another instance of folk etymology is
customs, our religion and our superstitions. Kermodes Manx Crosses) show that the later
us with a very striking example of this type of place-nomenclature. The
ravens nest, is a place-name example, where edd
There are one or two other doubtful
snares which beset the investigators path, for interpretations
; Más the thigh, and, in place-names, a
arg is borrowed from the Gaelic airgh, as already
Yet we have
and the latter in Camlork, crooked ridge, in
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