Buckieburn Reservoir
lake or loch · Stirling
ScotsSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
Buckieburn Reservoir is a reservoir on the Buckie Burn. 'Buckie' is likely a diminutive form of 'buck' or 'deer', and 'burn' is the Scots word for stream or river.
Word origins
- Buckie
- ScotsAttesteddiminutive of buck, deer(from buck "buck, deer", -ie "diminutive suffix")
- burn
- Scotsstream, river(from burn "stream, river")
- Reservoir
- Unknownreservoir