English / Map Form: Barnluasgan
Gaelic Form: Bàrr an Luasgain
Location: Knapdale, Argyll
Post Town: LOCHGILPHEAD
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Barnluasgan
Gaelic Form: Bàrr an Luasgain
Language Notes
Perhaps G sg. masc. bàrr, nom. ‘top’, ‘summit’ + gen. sg. masc. art. an + gen. sg. of luasgan, masc. ‘tottering, shaking’’ ‘summit of shaking’Element Meaning
bàrr ~ top, summit; luasgan ~ tottering, shaking
Sources
| Barloisken | 1654 Blaeu Knapdale |
| Barlaskin | 1747-55 Roy |
| Barinluskan | 1820 Thomson |
| Baranloisgan | 1912 Bartholomew |
| G. Bàrr an luasgain, ‘height of the shaking…’ Sometimes given as Bàrr an loisgein, G. for ‘height of the pimpernel’. | MacMillan 1960 |
| Barr an Luasgain | Robertson Collection MS 370, 63 |
| Barr an Luasgain movement, jolt | Nils Holmer notebook |