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Achnacree

Achadh na Crithe


Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

NM930364


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 agitans

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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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