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A drive through tarbert situated on the banks of loch fyne argyll scotland
Tarbert (Scottish Gaelic: An Tairbeart) is a place name in Scotland and Ireland. Places named Tarbert are characterised by a narrow strip of land, or isthmus. This can be where two lochs nearly meet, or a causeway out to an island.
Contents
- A drive through tarbert situated on the banks of loch fyne argyll scotland
- Map of Tarbert UK
- Panorama of tarbert castle kintyre argyll scotland uk
- Etymology
- Examples
- Scotland
- Ireland
- References
Map of Tarbert, UK
Panorama of tarbert castle kintyre argyll scotland uk
Etymology
All placenames that variously show up as tarbert, tarbat or tarbet in their anglicised form derive from either the Irish or Scottish Gaelic an tairbeart, commonly translated as "the isthmus" today.
Both these words derive from two Old Irish elements, tar "across" and a nominalised form of the verb ber "to carry". The /ɾ/ in tar was assimilated to /ɾʲ/ as a result of being next to the historically palatal /bʲ/ in Old Irish, causing the change in spelling from tar to tair-. So the literal translation would be an "across-carrying". The reason for this is that all tarberts are in fact located at or near old portage sites.
In English language spellings the first syllable "tar" has generally remained constant but the second syllable "bert" has variously been spelled as "bart", "bert" "bat", "bad" etc.
Examples
Places named Tarbert include: