English / Map Form: Achnacree
Gaelic Form: Achadh na Crithe
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Achnacree
Gaelic Form: Achadh na Crithe
Language Notes
Achadh -aidh, pl -aidhean, aidhnean, & achanna, sm Field, plain, meadow. Crith -e, -ean, sf Trembling. 2 Tremor — paralysis agitansElement Meaning
Sources
Acnnacree (Argyll) Achadh na Crithe
Achnacreebeg Achadh na Crithe Beag
Achnacreemore Achadh na Crithe Mór
The local etymology of the last two names, which gives the field of the little tree and the field of the big tree respectively, is wrong and quite at variance with the local Gaelic pronunciation, according to which the meanings are the little field of the trembling moss and the big field of the trembling moss.:Dwelly
Achnacreemore Ach’ na craoibh mór & beag ; Achadh na Crĭthemor
Achnacreebeag Achadh na Crĭthe beag: Robertson
“Achnacree, in Gaelic Acha(dh)na-cri’e, might, farther north, be explained as Achadh-na-craoibhe, ‘ tree-field.’ But in Lorn the bh of craobh will not vocalise so readily. The name is Achadh-na-crithe, ‘quaking field.’”: MacKinnon review of Gilies, Celtic Review 1970, 90
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