English / Map Form: Beinn Fhada / Ben Attow
Gaelic Form: A’ Bheinn Fhada
Post Town: KYLE
Postcode area: IV40
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
English / Map Form: Beinn Fhada / Ben Attow
Gaelic Form: A’ Bheinn Fhada
Language Notes
G nom. sg. fem. def. art. a’ (leniting) + G nom. sg. beinn fem. ‘mountain’ + nom. sg. lenited adj. fada fem. ‘long’Sources
Beinn fhada, “long hill”: MacKinnon, Scotsman
(a) Bheinn-fhada: Robertson’ s notes on MacKinnon lecture [followed by: ‘if that is the right etymology of that name’ ]
best known as Ben Attow, the long hill.: Watson 1904, 174
Beinn Fhada: Watson in Dwelly
a’ Bhinn Fhada: Robertson
A’ Bheinn Fhada: Watson Rosg Gàidhlig, 1915, 40 [Their cuid gu’ m b’ e Beinn Ghuilbinn seann ainm na beinne ris an abair sinn a nis a’ Bheinn Fhada]
A’ Bheinn Fhada: Watson, Ross and Cromarty 1924, 8
Should be A’ Bheinn Fhada, the long mountain: The Western Highlands, 1947 James A. Parker [notes supplied by Watson]
Additional Information
Munro M100, 1032m