Cookies-shiel Loch
lake or loch · Aberdeenshire
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Cookies-shiel Loch is of uncertain etymology. 'Loch' is Gaelic for lake, but 'Cookies-shiel' is not clearly identifiable. It may relate to a personal name or a descriptive term.
Word origins
- Cookies
- UnknownUncertain, possibly a personal name or descriptive term
- shiel
- ScotsA shepherd's hut or summer dwelling(from sheil "hut")
- Loch
- GaelicLake(from loch "lake")