Placenames • Adziel – a farm steading near
Strichen in
Aberdeenshire that lends its name to nearby Adziel Wood and Adziel House; • Ardgilzean – a farm steading and prehistoric cairn north of
Perth and nearby Argilzean Cottage, Eastfield of Ardgilzean and Ardgilzean Plantation; • Auchenbainzie – a farm steading and hill near
Penpont in
Dumfries and Galloway; • Auchenzeoch – a farm steading near
Fordoun in
Aberdeenshire; • Aucholzie – a settlement in
Glenmuick,
Aberdeenshire from the meaning "the field of the wood", also the adjacent stream Allt Cholzie and nearby ruined farmstead Mill of Aucholzie; • Balzeordie and Castletoun of Balzeordie – two farms near
Brechin in
Angus and a neighbouring wood Balzeordie Den, site of a minor
hillfort known by the same name; • Barledziew and Lower Barledziew – two farm steadings in the
Machars, Galloway beside a teardrop-sharped
drumlin, Barledziew Hill; • Barncailzie Wood – a Wood in
Galloway that lends its name to a former hunting lodge; •
Ben Chonzie – a mountain in
Perthshire; • Benziecott – a place on
Westray,
Orkney; • Binzean – a location in
Glen Shee with two farmsteadings Wester Binzian and Easter Binzian; • Branzet Moss – a moor next to a ruined farm steading, Branzet on
Bute; • Branziert – a suburb of
Killearn in
Stirlingshire; • The Branziet – pronounced
bringit (IPA ), a farm and settlement near
Bardowie,
East Dunbartonshire that lends its name to the Branziet Burn and Branziet Bridge; • Bunzion – pronounced
bunion (IPA ), Lower and Upper Bunzion are farms in the Parish of Cults,
Fife; • Cadzow – the former name of the town of
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire; the word continues in modern use in many street names and elsewhere including
Cadzow Castle, and the nearby village of
Kilncadzow; • Cairnerzean Fell – a hill in
Dumfries and Galloway that features numerous cairns, two
hut circles and may lend its name in anglicised form to the nearby village
Cairnryan; • Calzeat – an obsolete place name from the Parish of
Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho in
Peebleshire which, since 1971, has lent its name to textile manufacturer Calzeat and Company Limited; • Calziebohalzie – a former farmstead in Stirlingshire with a rare instance of a word containing two yoghs, from the (); • Carzield – part of
Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire that lends its name to a
Roman fort, a Medieval
Tower house and a farm and stables; •
Cockenzie – pronounced
cockennie (IPA ), from the meaning "cove of Kenneth", a town in
East Lothian; • Cozie – previously West Cozie, the name given to a row of now ruined cothouses on
Chapelton of Menmuir farm in
Angus; •
Colzium Estate – now pronounced as written, a historic estate and mansion house built on the banks of the Colzium Burn near
Kilsyth; • Colquhalzie House – a country house in
Perthshire; •
Corriemulzie – part of the
Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire, the Linn of Corriemulzie is a waterfall on the Corriemulzie burn; • Crailzie Hill – a hill in the
Scottish Borders; • Cultezeoun – a farm in
Carrick,
South Ayrshire from the meaning "the back of Euan's house", the home of
Margaret McMurray; •
Culzean – pronounced
culain (IPA ), a historic castle in Ayrshire run by the
National trust for Scotland; • Cunzierton – a locality in the east of
Oxnam parish in the
Scottish Borders which lends its name to Cunzierton Farm, Cunzierton Burn, Cunzierton Hill and the
hill fort atop it; •
Dalchonzie – a place on the banks of the
River Earn in
Perthshire that lends its name to a country house, farm and power station and the nearby hill Bioran Dalchonzie and a
former railway station; • Dalhenzean Lodge – a Bed & Breakfast run from a historic farmsteading in
Glen Shee, Perthshire; • Dalmunzie – pronounced
dalmoney (IPA ), a historic castle in Perthshire repurposed as a hotel; • Dalrulzion – sometimes spelled Dalrulzian, the site of a
hut circle and
cairnfield in Perthshire and nearby Middleton of Dalrulzion and Dalrulzion House; • Dalzean – a dwelling house above
Penpont on the course of the
Scaur Water in Dumfriesshire that lends its name to the Dalzean Burn and the adjacent hill Dalzean Snout; • Dalzellowlie, Dallzellowlie or Dalziellily – a colliery located between
Maybole and
Girvan in
South Ayrshire whose deposits were contested between the estates of Culzean and Kilhenzie and were set on fire more than once, burning for many decades and becoming known as Burning Hills; •
Drumelzier – pronounced
drumellier (IPA ), a village in the
Tweed Valley that shares its name with Drumelzier Castle, Drumelzier Kirk, the Drumelzier Burn and
Drumelzier Law; • Drunzie and Drunzie Feus – two adjacent settlements near
Glenfarg in
Perth and Kinross; • Easter Dalziel – pronounced
deeyel (IPA ) from Gaelic
Dail Gheal () meaning "white field"; • Enzean – a farm steading on the outskirts of
Monymusk in Aberdeenshire; • Enzie – a settlement in
Moray and
Enzie railway station; •
Edzell – now pronounced as written, a village in
Angus and the nearby Hill of Edzell, Edzell Castle, Mains of Edzell farm and the nearby settlement Edzell Woods; • Falgunzeon – a farm in
Dumfries and Galloway that lends its name to the adjacent Falgunzeon Hill; •
Finzean – pronounced
fingen (IPA ), an area in rural
Aberdeenshire; • Finzeuch – a settlement near
Keig in Aberdeenshire; • Hill of Foulzie – near
Macduff in Aberdeenshire and four surrounding farm steadings Foulzie, Backhill of Foulzie, Over Foulzie and Newton of Foulzie; • Funzie – pronounced
finnie (IPA ), a village on
Fetlar that lends its name to nearby Funzie Ness, Funzie Bay, Haa of Funzie, Loch of Funzie, Muckle Funziegord Geo and the historic dividing wall
Funzie Girt; • Gartwhinzean – a historic settlement near
Crook of Devon in
Perth and Kinross; • Glenrazie – a small settlement near
Newton Stewart, Dumfries & Galloway which lends its name to Glenrazie Woods to the north; •
Glenzier – pronounced
glinger (IPA ), a village in Dumfries & Galloway which lends its name to Glenzierfoot and the Glenzier Burn; • Helzie – pronounced
helly, a place name used for four distinct areas in
Orkney, perhaps eponymously named for
Helgi an influential
Westray householder featured in the
Orkneyinga Saga: • Dale of Helzie – an area of pasture in
Deerness on
Mainland; • Doun Helzie – a beach on
Sanday, Orkney; • Helzie and Sands of Helzie – an abandoned dwelling place and adjacent beach on
Westray; • Helziegetha – a dwelling on
Wyre; • Henzie Burn – a
burn, a tributary to the
River Almond, Perth and Kinross which originates in a high
corrie, Corry Henzie; • Inzie Head – a headland on the
Aberdeenshire coast south east of
St Combs; •
Kailzie Gardens – a historic walled garden named after Kailzie Hill and Kailzie Hope near
Kirkburn, Scottish Borders; • Kenzie's Tower – a minor hillock on
Flotta in
Orkney; • Kilchenzie or Kilkenzie – a small settlement on the
Kintyre peninsula, from
Choinnich (), the genitive of
Coinneach () "Kenneth"; •
Kilhenzie Castle – pronounced
kilhinny, a late medieval, baronial
keep in
Carrick, South Ayrshire, also from
Choinnich and which takes its name from the surrounding features Kilhenzie Burn, Kilhenzie Wood and the Back Hill of Kilhenzie; • Kilmacfadzean – a prehistoric
burnt mound and sheepfold above
New Luce in Galloway; • Kilrenzie, a remote settlement in the parish of
Colmonell in South Ayrshire; •
Kirkgunzeon – pronounced
kirkgunion (IPA ), a village and civil parish in
Dumfries and Galloway that lends its name to the adjacent stream Kirkgunzeon Lane and the nearby Isles of Kirkgunzeon Farm and Cottage; • Largizean – a row of three prehistoric
standing stones and an adjacent farmstead near
Kilchattan Bay on the
Isle of Bute; •
Lenzie – now pronounced as written (IPA ), but previously
lenyie (IPA ), a village near
Glasgow; •
Lenziemill – a sizeable industrial district of
Cumbernauld; • Malzie or Culmalzie, (sometimes Culmazie) – a site in
The Machars in Dumfries & Galloway somewhat dubiously supposed to relate to Saint Mhaillidh which lends its name to the Water of Malzie – a tributary of the
River Bladnoch and Corsemalzie – a nearby country house hotel; • Menzie Cleugh – a gully or ravine in the sea cliff near
Coldingham in the
Borders reputedly derived from the name of a person who resided there; •
Menzion – a village in the
Borders; •
Menzieshill – an area of
Dundee; • Monzie – pronounced
money (IPA ), from the Gaelic
Moighidh, "a level tract", a parish in Perthshire near Crieff which lends its name to
Monzie Castle and the
Falls of Monzie; •
Monzievaird – with competing etymologies but supposed to be from the Gaelic
Maghbhard, "plain of the bards", a place in
Perthshire — the site of the
Massacre of Monzievaird and which lends its name to
Loch Monzievaird; •
Moonzie – a parish in
Fife generally supposed to be from Gaelic and meaning "hill of the deer"; • Mozie Law – a hilltop in the
Cheviot Hills whose summit lies on the
Anglo-Scottish border; • Munzie Well – a holy well dedicated to
St Mungo in
Whitelee Forest,
East Renfrewshire, also Munzie Burn and Munzie Hill; • Onziebust – an
RSPB nature reserve on the Isle of
Egilsay,
Orkney and a second location on
Wyre — the two identically named areas face each other across the
Rousay Sound; • Portencalzie – a small settlement near
Kirkcolm on the
Rhins of Galloway; • Pinzarie – pronounced
pingery, a farm steading and ruined farm steading, Old Pinzarie underneath Pinzarie Hill upstream from
Tynron on the course of the
Shinnel Water; • Pitcalzean – an obscure archaeological enclosure near the village of
Nigg, Highland that lends its name to nearby Pitcalzean House; •
Queenzieburn – pronounced
queenieburn (IPA ), a village in
Lanarkshire; • Rannagulzion House – a country house near Blairgowrie in Perthshire; • Raiziehill – a suburb of
Bathgate and nearby Raiziehill Wood; •
Ruchazie – now pronounced as written (IPA ), a district of Glasgow; • Strath Mulzie and Corriemulzie – a broad glen and the river that runs through it in
Sutherland that lends its name to the Corriemulzie Lodge & Estate; • Soilzarie – a small settlement in the parish of Kirkmichael in
Glen Shee, Perthshire; • Swinzie Burn – a tributary to the
Annick Water in
East Ayrshire; •
Terringzean Castle – pronounced
tringan (IPA ) but with a variety of recorded spellings, a castle in
East Ayrshire; • Ulzieside – an estate and farm near
Sanquhar in
Dumfries and Galloway; • Velzie – a small settlement on
Fetlar. See also: •
Lochranza – a village and sea loch on the
Isle of Arran the in this instance deriving from , but nonetheless mistaken as a yogh with written referents to
Loch Ranga found in the 19th century
Placenames standardised without • Cu' Dheis – a township on
Tiree previously found as Cowzeise; •
Yieldshields – now written as pronounced although previously found as Zuildshields; •
Yell – found archaically as Zell in early modern texts; •
Shetland – known commonly as Zetland in the nineteenth century –
Zetland County Council being the official name of the county from 1890 until 1975 resulting in Shetland
postcodes beginning with the letters ZE.
Surnames • Alzie – a surname, historically found in
Renfrewshire,
Glasgow and
Lanarkshire and possibly an alternate spelling of
Algie. The name fell into disuse in the early nineteenth century; • Cadzow – see placename; •
Dalziel – pronounced
deeyel (IPA ) or
dehyell, from Gaelic
Dail Gheal (); also spelled Dalyell and Dalzell; • Gilzean – pronounced
gilain, a variant of
Maclean, from Gaelic
MacGilleEathain (). However, many now pronounce the 'z', including footballer
Alan Gilzean; • Malzie – a now defunct surname possibly related to the Dumfries & Galloway placename; •
McFadzean – pronounced
macfadyen (IPA ), scotticised version of the Gaelic surname
MacPhaidin also found, primarily in Ireland, anglicised as
MacFadden; •
MacKenzie – now pronounced as written, though as late as 1946 George Black recorded the original form pronounced
makenyie (IPA ), from the Gaelic
MacCoinnich () as standard; •
Menzies – most correctly (for example, by
Sir Robert Menzies) pronounced
mingis (IPA ), now also pronounced with ; •
Winzet – pronounced
winyet (IPA ). See also: • Gilhaize – a seemingly invented surname used for the eponymous protagonist of
John Galt's
Ringan Gilhaize •
Layamon – now written as pronounced although frequently rendered with a yogh as Laȝamon up to the early 1900s in literary referents;
Miscellaneous nouns •
Assoilzie – pronounced with a silent
z – in
Scots law: acquittal or
ruling in favour of the defender in a civil matter; • Brulzie – with a variety of spellings including bruilzie and broolzie – a commotion or noisy quarrel – possibly related to
Brulyie to broil; •
Capercailzie – the Scots spelling of
capercaillie (IPA ) from the
Gaelic capall-coille () meaning "forest horse"; •
Gaberlunzie – most correctly pronounced
gaberlunyie (IPA ) but now often pronounced as written, a licensed
beggar; •
Spulzie — pronounced
spooly with a variety of spellings including spuilzie and spulyie, both the taking of movable goods and the term for a process of restitution for such crimes; •
Tailzie – pronounced in
Scots law: a defunct since 2000 term for an entailed estate/interest in one; •
Tuilzie – now standardised to
Tulyie a struggle or fight, from the Old French 'toeillier' meaning to strive, dispute or struggle; •
Ulzie – pronounced
ooly, oil. Found in reference to "The Ulzie Ball" held by
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