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Beinn Dearg

Beinn Dearg


Upland

Location

Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

PH18

NN852777


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.

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Munro M124, 1008m

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