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Beinn Dubhchraig

Beinn Dubhchreig


Upland

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Stirlingshire

Stirling

FK20

NN307254


English / Map Form: Beinn Dubhchraig

Gaelic Form: Beinn Dubhchreig


Post Town: CRIANLARICH

Postcode area: FK20

County: Stirlingshire

Local Authority: Stirling

English / Map Form: Beinn Dubhchraig

Gaelic Form: Beinn Dubhchreig


Language Notes

G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + gen. sg. of existing name Dubhchreag (G nom. sg. preposed adj. masc dubh ‘black’ + lenited nom. sg. creag fem ‘crag’)

Sources

Ben-douchrick 1783 Stobie

Beinn Dubh-Chreige: Dwelly [headform is Dubh-chraige, Beinn]

bin̆du:xrek, emphasis on Dubh is so strong that the g in the last syllable is barely or not sounded ‘du:xre, Beinn Dubh-chreag, hill of black crag: A. Watson 2015, 175

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Munro M175, 978m

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