Scottish Place-Name Society
- Scottish Place-Name Society
The Scottish Place-Name Society ("Comann Ainmean-Áite na h-Alba" in Gaelic) is a learned society in Scotland concerned with toponymy, the study of place-names. Its scholars aim to explain the origin and history of the place-names they study, taking into account the meaning of the elements out of which they were created; the topography, geology and ecology of the places bearing the names; and the general and local history and culture of Scotland.
The Society was founded in February 1996. The Society's journal, the Journal of Scottish Name Studies, will be published from 2007.
Further reading
* Watson, W.J., "History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland." Reprinted, with introduction, full bibliography and corrigenda by Simon Taylor. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2004.
* Nicolaisen, W.F.H., "Scottish Place-Names." Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 2001.
External links
* [http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm Official website]
* [http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS.html Publisher's website for the forthcoming "JSNS"]
ee also
*International Council for Onomastic Studies
*English Place-Name Society
*Ulster Place-Name Society
*Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
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