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Aviemore

An Aghaidh Mhòr

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Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NH895123


English / Map Form: Aviemore

Gaelic Form: An Aghaidh Mhòr


Location: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland

Post Town: AVIEMORE

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Aviemore

Gaelic Form: An Aghaidh Mhòr


Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Agaidh-mhòr Eigh bho Chreag-Eileachaidh, 1864
Agaidh mhòr Diack Place-names of Pictland, ii, 163
Agaidh mhor Robertson MS405, 26
Agaidh Mhór Watson 2002 (1920), 152
Agaidh-mhor MacBain, 182
Agaidhmhor Murray, Notes on the Parish of Duthil, Transactions 43, 41
An Aghaidh Mhór Gaelic Place-Names of Strathspey, 303
An Aghaidh Mhòr Seumas Grannd Place-Names of the Cairngorms National Park
An Aghaidh Mhor existing signage

Additional Information

See the Watson article for discussion. He says the meaning of agaidh is uncertain, but it appears in Avielochan and Gallovie. It seems there are two forms here, Agaidh Mhòr and An Aghaidh Mhòr. It seems likely that the earlier version has been reinterpreted from the obscure element agaidh, with no article, to the transparent, An Aghaidh Mhòr, ‘the big face or slope’.

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