Editing South Uist (section)

==Etymology==
Mac an Tàilleir (2003) suggests that the derivation of ''Uist'' may be "corn island".<ref>Mac an Tàilleir (2003) p. 116</ref> However, whilst noting that the ''vist'' ending would have been familiar to speakers of [[Old Norse]] as meaning "dwelling", Gammeltoft (2007) says that the word is "of non-Gaelic origin" and that it reveals itself as one of a number of "foreign place-names having undergone adaptation in Old Norse". In contrast, Clancy (2018) has argued that ''Ívist'' itself is an Old Norse [[calque]] on an earlier Gaelic name, ''*Ibuid'' or ''Ibdaig'', which corresponds to [[Ptolemy]]’s ''Eboudai''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clancy |first1=Thomas Owen |title=Hebridean connections: in Ibdone insula, Ibdaig, Eboudai, Uist |journal=The Journal of Scottish Name Studies |date=2018 |volume=12 |pages=27–40 |url=http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V12/JSNS%2012%20Clancy.pdf |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> Coates (2006) linked the names ''Uist'' and ''[[Ibiza]]'', an island in the Mediterranean, arguing for an origin in Semitic ''*bšm'' ("balsam") with the island-naming prefix ''*’y'', acknowledging the possibility of a name transfer and the name being subject to the influence of Norse ''ívist''.<ref name="coates">{{cite journal |last1=Coates |first1=Richard |title=A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles |date=2006 |page=63-65 |url=https://www.snsbi.org.uk/Nomina_articles/Nomina_35_Coates.pdf |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>