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I’m currently reading an interesting book – Uncommon Ground – A word-lover’s guide to the British landscape<\/em><\/a> by Dominick Tyler. <\/p>\n One thing I’ve learnt from it, is that there are quite a few words in Scottish Gaelic related to hills and mountains:<\/p>\n Beinn<\/strong> [bei\u0272 \/ be\u0272\u0259] = mountain, mount; high hill, pinnacle; head, top, high place. It comes from the Old Irish benn<\/em> (peak, point, pinnacle), from the Proto-Celtic *benno-<\/em> (peak, top).<\/p>\n Sgurr<\/strong> [sgu\u02d0r\u02e0 \/ sgur\u02e0\u0259] = high pointed hill, peak; cliff, craig.<\/p>\n Stob<\/strong> [sd\u0254b] = point, pinnacle; stake; pointed iron stick; prickle, thorn; stump; sharp-pointed stick; to prick, prod.<\/p>\n Meall<\/strong> [mjaul\u032a\u02e0 \/ mjal\u032a\u02e0\u0259\u0263] = mound, round hill; pile, heap; lump, clot, mass; (rain) shower; bout. It comes from the Old Irish mell<\/em> (a ball, sphere, round mass; a round protuberance, swelling).<\/p>\n St\u00f9c<\/strong> [stu\u02d0xg] = little hill jutting out from a greater, steep on one side and rounded on the other; cliff; pinnacle of a roof; horn; scowl; rock; lump; conical steep rock; precipice.<\/p>\n St\u00f2r<\/strong> [sd\u0254\u02d0r] = steep, high cliff; broken or decayed tooth.<\/p>\n Coire<\/strong> [k\u0264r\u02b2\u0259] = circular hollow surrounded by hills; mountain dell; whirlpool.<\/p>\n Cnoc<\/strong> \/kr\u0254\u0303xg\/ = hill: small hill, hillock, knoll; chilblain. It comes from the the Old Irish cnocc<\/em> (hill, lump, stump), from Proto-Celtic *knokkos<\/em> (hill).<\/p>\n Cruachan<\/strong> [kru\u0259xan] = conical hill; hip.<\/p>\n Mam<\/strong> [maum] = rounded hill\/mountain; mountain gap\/pass; boil; bulge.<\/p>\n Cnap<\/strong> [kr\u00e3hb] = small lumpy hill; knob, lump, protrusion; block; boss, node; swelling; button; potato; gust of wind; thump, thud. It is a borrowing from the Old Norse knappr<\/em> (knob, stud, button), or the Old English cn\u00e6p<\/em> (top of a hill, button, brooch).<\/p>\n Tiumpan<\/strong> [t\u02b2\u0169\u02d0mban] = one-sided hill; timbrel, tabret; tambourine; backside, bum.<\/p>\n Binnean<\/strong> [bi\u0272an] = high conical hill; apex, high point; pinnacle.<\/p>\n Cruachag<\/strong> [kru\u0259xag] small round hill; small pile\/stack; small clamp (stack).<\/p>\n D\u00f9nan<\/strong> [du\u02d0nan] = small hill; small fortress; dunghill; midden.<\/p>\n Torr<\/strong> [t\u0254\u02d0r\u02e0] = hill, mountain of an abrupt or conical form, lofty hill; Eminence; mound, large heap.<\/p>\n Monadh<\/strong> [m\u0254n\u0259\u0263] = mountain (covered with moors); high-lying moorland; expanse of heather.<\/p>\n Sliabh<\/strong> [\u0283\u028ei\u0259v] = hillside, slope; mountain. It comes from the Old Irish sl\u00edab<\/em> (mountain, mountain range, moor), from the Proto-Celtic *sl\u0113bos<\/em> (mountain).<\/p>\n Note: not all these words feature in Uncommon Ground<\/em>.<\/p>\n Some of these words appear mainly in place names, and may be used in songs and poems, but are not used in everyday Gaelic.<\/p>\n Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m currently reading an interesting book – Uncommon Ground – A word-lover’s guide to the British landscape by Dominick Tyler. One thing I’ve learnt from it, is that there are quite a few words in Scottish Gaelic related to hills and mountains: Beinn [bei\u0272 \/ be\u0272\u0259] = mountain, mount; high hill, pinnacle; head, top, high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,127,10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}