@ticiaverveer @caitlinrgreen OK this is one for @TeaJunkie1 Was Uist always an Island? 16,000 BC looks not!
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Replying to @Tweets2CV
@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer@TeaJunkie1 Uist? Now there's a potentially interesting island-name....! ;)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen@ticiaverveer@TeaJunkie1 Tea Junkie lives there & is a retired (almost) history prof! Do tell us more!2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Tweets2CV@caitlinrgreen@ticiaverveer Yes, I'd love to hear more about the origins of the name.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @TeaJunkie1
@TeaJunkie1@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer It's potentially quite fascinating! Generally treated as 'etymology unknown', but Coates in 1988 and >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@TeaJunkie1@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer > others more recently argued only obviously workable explanation is that is Proto-Semitic/Phoenician >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@TeaJunkie1@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer > & identical in origin to name Ibiza---either same name used in British Isles (cf. Thanet/Y TNT) >2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@TeaJunkie1@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer > or Punic name = 'lush island' or similar---compare http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html … esp on name Hebrides :)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@TeaJunkie1@Tweets2CV@ticiaverveer Most recent discussion=Broderick, 'Some island names', Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 7 (2013), 1–282 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen@TeaJunkie1@ticiaverveer Many thanks to our Great History Doctor!1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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