Year: 1950
Type: article
Abstract: In a paper in the Transactions of this Society, entitled "Ancient Denominations of Agricultural Land in Scotland," l I suggested, when considering the meaning and use of the term "davach" (dauch, daugh, dock), that it might have been originally the name applied more particularly to the arable area of the Celtic rural township or vill, and not, as is found at.later dates, in some cases at least, to the whole land of the township.This view was based mainly on a consideration of the facts that, as a place-name prefix, it is of infrequent occurrence compared with such other prefixes as bally and pit, which are known to have been Celtic names for the township, and also, because the most reputable modern philologists consider the word to be from old Gaelic.dabach,meaning a seed-vat.Since writing that paper five years ago I have come across some further evidence, not known to me then, which appears to confirm this view.
Author: Andrew McKerral
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4322735912