English / Map Form: Beinn Dearg
Gaelic Form: Beinn Dearg
Post Town: PITLOCHRY
Postcode area: PH18
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
English / Map Form: Beinn Dearg
Gaelic Form: Beinn Dearg
Language Notes
G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + nom. sg. adj dearg ‘red’ (lenition suppressed du to homeorganic consontants)Sources
Bēinn dearg no Beinn-deirg (red mountain, or rather perhaps, mountain of the red deer.) 1835 MacIntyre’ s Etymological Dictionary 22v
Bin’ dʒɛrək: A. Watson 2015, 179
airde Beinndeirg [genitive]: 1845 A’ Bhan-rìgh aig Blar Adhall, 8
The preceding -nn suppresses the expected lenition in the feminine adjective dearg.
Additional Information
Munro M124, 1008m
