English / Map Form: Bonawe
Gaelic Form: Bun Abha
Location: Loch Etive, Argyll
Post Town: TAYNUILT
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Bonawe
Gaelic Form: Bun Abha
Sources
Abha (’Atha’) (River) and Bun-abha, but Loch obha | Robertson MS405 p. 27v |
Bun-a’a | Robertson Ms368, 151 |
do Bhunatha | Turner’s Gaelic Poems, early 19th C, 66 |
Bun Abh | Orain Iain Luim |
bun a’ə | Diack MS2276 |
Additional Information
Abhainn in local Gaelic can be pronounced as *athainn, where -th- is a glottal stop, so a spelling of Abha is perhaps justified.