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Glengarry

Gleann Garadh


Meaning

? rough glen


Lowland

Location

Inverness-shire

Highland

NH319011


English / Map Form: Glengarry

Gaelic Form: Gleann Garadh


Location: Lochaber, Highland

Post Town: INVERGARRY

County: Inverness-shire

Local Authority: Highland

English / Map Form: Glengarry

Gaelic Form: Gleann Garadh


Language Notes

G gleann, masc. ‘glen’ + nom.? sg. garadh, hydronymic element, possible from gairbh, `rough one’ reanalaysed. 

Element Meaning

G gleann ~ glen + ? G garbh ~ rough one 

Sources

Glengarry 1492 x 1500 ER xi
Glengairie 1630 Ane Description p. 169
Glen Garrif 1654 Blaeu map Braid-Allban

Gleanna garadh Dwelly 1911
Gleann Garadh Watson 1926, 470
Gleann Gharadh Dieckhoff 1932
Gleann Garadh mu thuath Robertson

 

Additional Information

Dieckhoff’s form is surprising, but his phonetic script implies the form is not lenited, or is so only because of a preceding schwarabhakti, which is discussed by Robertson in Scottish Gaelic Dialects.

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