In a message dated 9/1/00 10:33:53 AM GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:
> (and maybe never reached Scotland)?
In reply to my own daft posting: I had never heard _uinnius_ used in
Scotland, but now I see it _is_ in the dictionary _uinnse_ 'ash-tree'.
Incidentally, ash-trees don't seem particularly popular in Celtic
place-names: I can only think of one Scottish place that might (with
deference to the current doubts expressed by the learned list-members!)
contain 'ash-tree' , and that is Strath Noon (G. _Srath Ni\n_). In Ireland, I
know only the river Funshion (Ir. _Fuinnsean_ 'ashy'), which certainly does
exhibit the genuine 'ash' word. There must be others? Can anyone expand the
list?
The 16th September is slowly approaching, when we can hope that _all will be
revealed_!
Henry
visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website at
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
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