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Adamnan adjective affix allied ancient Anglicised Anglo-Saxon applied brae Celtic church cognate Coille common corruption Dail Danish derived Dubh Duffus Dutch dwelling eclipsed Elgin Elginshire enclosure evidently farm field or plain Forres French frequently found Gaelic Achadh Gaelic Baile Gaelic Coire Gaelic Linne Gaelic Reidhe genitive German Greek green ground hillock hillside stretch hollow Icelandic Inver Irish Kinloss Abbey lake Latin latter literally little hill loch Lochty Lossie marsh meadow meaning Middle English modern Gaelic monks Moray Firth mound mountain Norse Norsemen old form old Gaelic word old name olden original parish Pictish chronicle Picts piece of land place names plain or field pool prefix Reidhe ridge river river Spey rock root rough Sanskrit Scandinavian Scotch Scotland Spey Speymouth Spynie stone stream stronghold suffix Swedish tautology Teutonic throughout the country topography town or residence valley various forms Welsh willow wood word is found word signifies