SCOTTISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY
COMANN AINMEAN-ÀITE NA H-ALBA
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Ben Wyvis, looking eastwards.
Dingwall is at the head of the Cromarty Firth, the sunlit water in the distance. This is from Old Norse Þingvöllr, ‘assembly field’, testifying to its importance under Norse rule.Dingwall's Gaelic name Inbhir Pheofharain is formed of the usual Gaelic word for a river mouth and a P-Celtic stream name (cf. Welsh pefr, ‘radiant, beautiful’), also found at several other places in eastern Scotland as far south as the Peffer Burns and Peffermill in Lothian, as well as Peover in Cheshire. |
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