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Jim Brown	Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy (91* d)	RE: Origins: Help with Gypsy Davy	10 Dec 15
> it would be good to know the source of the idea that "wemyss" was the Pictish word for cave This is getting a bit off-topic, but surely it is more likely Gaelic. See the short article on place names from "uamh" (including Wemyss) at http://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/SWE/TBI/TBIIssue16/Uamh.html Not far from Wemyss is Pittenweem, which W.J. Watson, in The Celtic Placenames of Scotland (1926) explains as "peit na h-uam(h)a", "share of the cave". The "peit" bit seems to come from a Pictish word meaning a portion of land, which continued to be used even after Gaelic replaced Pictish as the dominant language in the east of Scotland, but the rest is completely Gaelic.

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