Editing Little Cumbrae (section)

==Etymology==
The Cumbraes take their name from the [[Old Norse]] ''Kumreyjar'', meaning "islands of the [[Cymry]]" (referring to the [[Cumbric]]-speaking inhabitants of southern Scotland). They are referred to under this name in the Norse ''[[Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar|Saga of Haakon Haakonarson]]''.<ref>{{cite thesis|title=Ethnonyms in the Place-Names of Scotland and the Border Counties of England|last=Morgan|first=Ailig|date=2013|degree=PhD|publisher=St Andrews University|page=45|hdl=10023/4164 |url=https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/4164}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Brittonic Language in the Old North: A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence (Volume 2)|last=James|first=Alan|date=2019|publisher=Scottish Place-Name Society|page=85|url=https://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary_2019_Edition.pdf}}</ref>

Little Cumbrae was recorded as "Litill Comeray" in 1515<ref name="J93">Johnston, p. 93</ref> and later in that century as "Cumbray of the Dais".<ref>Munro (1961) p. 48, quoting the Sibbald Manuscript of Monro (1549)</ref>{{#tag:ref|Monro wrote that the name “Cumbray of the Dais” arose “because there is mony Dais in it”. This has been interpreted to mean that the derivation of “Dais” is from {{langx|sco|Dae}}, a female [[fallow deer]].<ref>[https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost00058788 Da, Dae] Dictionaries of the Scots Language/’’Dictionars o the Scots Leid’’ DSL. Retrieved 3 March 2024. </ref><ref> Munro (1961) p. 160</ref> However {{langx|gd|deas}} means “south”<ref>[https://www.faclair.com/ deas] “Am Faclair Beag’’. Faclair.com. Retrieved 3 March 2024.</ref>  and as Little Cumbrae is just {{convert|1|km|mi}} south of its larger neighbour and Monro’s grasp of Gaelic is known to have been weak{{sfn|Smith|1894}} it is possible that the name simply meant “South Cumbrae”.|group="Note"}} In modern Gaelic these the island is known as ''Cumaradh Beag''.<ref name=MacanT>Mac an Tàilleir p. 36</ref> In former times it was also known as Lesser or Wee Cumbrae.<ref name=Smith/>