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Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features

A study of four Berwickshire parishes

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  • Author(s): Leonie Mhari 1  and Carole Hough 1
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    1 University of Glasgow, UK
  • Source: Colour Studies , pp 307-322
  • Publication Date November 2014

This chapter presents a study of colour terms in the names of four parishes within the historic county of Berwickshire in south-east Scotland. Out of 1,895 marked features on the first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1856, sixty-nine (3.64%) have names containing colour terms. These fall into two groups: base names, where the feature was named directly from the colour, and derived names, where the base name has been used to name another feature. Comparison of inland and coastal names reveals different profiles, with derived names more commonly generated inland, but colour terms more salient in coastal names.

  • Affiliations: 1: University of Glasgow, UK

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    (ed.) 1985 Concise Scots Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Coates, Richard
    2009 “A Strictly Millian Approach to the Definition of the Proper Name.” Mind and Language24 (4): 433–444. doi: 10.1111/j.1468‑0017.2009.01369.x
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    1956 English Place-Name Elements, 2 vols (= English Place-Name Society, 25–26). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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    2000 The Landscape of Place-Names. Stamford: Shaun Tyas.
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    2003 “Onomastic Uses of the Term ‘White’.” Nomina26: 83–92.
     [Google Scholar]
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     https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.321.01hou [Google Scholar]
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    1940 The Place-Names of Berwickshire. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Kay, Paul , Brent Berlin , Luisa Maffi , William Merrifield , and Richard Cook
    2009 The World Color Survey (= CSLI Lectures Notes, 159). Stanford, California: CSLI Publications.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Márkus, Gilbert
    2012 The Place-Names of Bute. Donington: Shaun Tyas.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Nicolaisen, W.F.H
    2001 Scottish Place-Names: Their Study and Significance, 2nd ed. Edinburgh: John Donald.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Rätsep, Kaidi
    2012 “Colour Term ‘Black’ in Estonian Place Names.” Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri: Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics3: 129–154.
     [Google Scholar]
  19. Reid, John
    2009 The Place Names of Falkirk and East Stirlingshire. Falkirk: Falkirk Local History Society.
     [Google Scholar]
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    2008 Scottish Place-Names. Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
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    1926 The History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood.
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