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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

'Gaelic names: Aspiration, eclipsis, accent, and [definite] article', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/8
Scope and Contents

Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on the phonological features of aspiration, eclipsis, and syllable stress of Gaelic place names. There is also a discussion on the [definite(?)] article.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Declensional forms', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/9
Scope and Contents

Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on how the grammatical categories of gender, number, and nominal case interact with inflected ('declensional') forms of place names in Scottish Gaelic.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Loanwords from English and Latin', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/11
Scope and Contents

A discussion on, or script for a lecture on, elements of Scottish Gaelic place names that are borrowed from English or Latin.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Loanwords from Welsh, Pictish, native (?) Gaelic, and pre-Celtic', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/12
Scope and Contents

A discussion on, or script for a lecture on, elements of Scottish Gaelic place names that are borrowed from Welsh, Pictish, native (?) Celtic, and pre-Celtic languages.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Phonetic changes', late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/7
Scope and Contents

This notebook contains a discussion of Gaelic names, including comparative typological discussion with English and the other Celtic languages.


The front cover has Roman numerals and numericals, scratched out and corrected. There are notes about the contents, suggesting the notebook is divided into two parts. With many pages having been removed from the notebook, it suggests that this notebook was part of a revision process and part of a larger work.

Dates: late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Prefixes and suffixes', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/10
Scope and Contents

Notes and discussion, possibly for a lecture, on the prefixes and suffixes found in Scottish Gaelic place names.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Two main requisites for interpreting names', Late 19th or early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/6
Scope and Contents

Notes for a lecture, article, or book on Scottish Gaelic place names. The notes include etymology, old forms, and contemporary pronunciation. On the front page of the notebook, the Roman numeral 'II' is written, suggesting that this might be the second part to a larger work.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

'Gaelic names: Words borrowed from Norse', Late 19th or early 20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/13
Scope and Contents

A discussion on, or script for a lecture on, elements of Scottish Gaelic place names that are borrowed from Norse.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

Newspaper Cuttings, 1898-1924

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW397
Scope and Contents

Newspaper cuttings relating to various subjects including: Scottish place names, clan history, topography, the Inneses of Caithness and pipe tunes. The cuttings were taken from the following publications, Oban Times, Glasgow Herald, Peoples Journal, Northern Chronicle, Perthshire Advertiser, Northern Ensign and the Highland News.

The cuttings are contained in three envelopes, addressed to the Rev Charles M. Robertson, Jura, Islay and Ullapool.

Dates: 1898-1924

Paper headed 'Notes'. By John O'Donovan, 1850-1862

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/7/4
Scope and Contents

These appear to be notes written by John O'Donovan, including notes used by O'Donovan in preparation of his work 'Topographical Poems of John O Dubhagan and Gille na Naomh (Dublin, 1862).

Dates: 1850-1862