Longis
Attested: Longis at position 299 in the Ravenna Cosmography is explicitly described as an island and is the last name before a few oddities and after-thoughts
Where: Lismore, a long, thin, green island in Loch Linnhe, on the Great Glen fault.
Name Origin: Latin longus ‘long’, with cognates in other languages, descended from a surprising PIE root *del-. This name probably just referred to the length of the island.
Notes: Navis longa ‘long ship’ was the usual Roman name for a warship, hence Old Irish long ‘ship’. Ptolemy's Λογγου river mouth, plus the islands called Luing and Lunga, may be a red herring.
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