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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Tosch(e)och, Tosech, n. [Gael. toiseach.] An official of the Celtic kingdom, relative in status to the thane (Than(e n.¹) and developing in feudal times into the clan chieftain. Also as a personal name. Quotations here may represent Gaelic forms rather than Scots or the Macleod P. quot. may be a further example of Toscheochdoraschip n. For further information on kin-based terminology in Scots, see J. Bannerman ‘The Scots Language and Kin-based Society’ in Gaelic and Scots in Harmony: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Languages of Scotland, ed. Derick S. Thomson (Glasgow, 1990) esp. pp. 1-7. — 1502 Reg. Great S. 564/1.
Finlayus Toschoch thanus de Glentelt 1587 Acts III 495/2.
Jeane Toscheoch and [gap in text] Toscheoch lauchfull dochteris and appeirand airis to Edwart Toscheoch of Monywaird — 1613 Murray Lyon Hist. Lodge Edinb. 31.
Sa aft as he sall brek this act sall pay x lib. toithis tosech 1663 Macleod P. MS (Reg. H.) Aug.
Baronie de Culter … infra vicecomitatum de Lanerk Officium de lie Toscheoch et doraschipe de Atholoneyk