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’.
