Reading the Gaelic Landscape

Reading the Gaelic Landscape
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Following the success of the first edition, this new edition has been expanded and improved with additional images and enhanced drawings. The subject matter has been expanded with the chapter on grammar and pronunciation extended. There are examples of how Gaelic personal names and the human body are used in place-names and many etymological sources have been added to place-name tables. In addition to the generic index, there is now an index of specific place-names. Finally, there’s more to say about hares, bears and boars! Reading the Gaelic Landscape is essential for anyone who is interested in the Scottish Highlands and its native language. It enables people to read and understand place-names in Gaelic, providing insights into landscape character and history. The book enriches the experience of walkers, climbers, sailors, bird watchers and fishers by sketching the named context, where they practise their pursuits. Outdoor enthusiasts need no longer struggle with unfamiliar spellings and words, as they can develop a new perspective of place through an understanding of Gaelic toponymy. The ways Gaelic poets like Sorley MacLean and Duncan Bàn MacIntyre used the named landscape in their work is explored. Names are used to speculate about species extinctions and the history of the Caledonian Forest. Readers learn how place has been defined in Gaelic and how this has been recorded, through a deeper understanding of how native speakers applied their language to the landscape.

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John Murray. Reading the Gaelic Landscape

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to First Edition

1: Introduction

2: A Brief History of Gaelic in Scotland

Year of Census

3: Mapping the Scottish Highlands

4: A Brief Guide to Gaelic Grammar and Pronunciation

4.1: Definite Articles, Gender of Nouns and Agreement of Adjectives

4.2 Adjectives and Compound Nouns

4.3: Plural Nouns and Adjectives, and the Gaelic Spelling Rule

4.4: The Genitive Case - singular and plural

5: Place-name Classifications - Revealing Layers in the Landscape

Place-name Classifications

6: Landform and Hydrology

6.1: Mountains, Hills and Knolls

6.2: Landform - Hollows, Valleys, Ridges, Plains and Passes

6.3: Gaelic Waterscape

Coast and Sea

6.4: Still Freshwater

6.5: Running Freshwater

7: Landcover and Ecology. 7.1: Habitats, Woods and Forests

7.2: Flora

7.3: Fauna

8: Land Use. 8.1: Agriculture and Crops

Arable

Grazing

Enclosures

8.2: Transhumance and the Shieling

8.3: Domestic and Farm Animals

9: Climate, Season, Mood, Sound and Time

10: The Cultural Landscape. 10.1: Buildings, Settlements and Structures

10.2: Church and Chapel

10.3: Culture - artefacts

10.4: People and Occupations

10.5: Gaelic Anatomy

10.6: Events

10.7: Legend and the Supernatural

11: Adjectives. 11.1: Colour, Pattern and Texture

Colour Summary

Pattern

Texture

11.2: Adjectives and Adjectival Nouns - Form, Size and Position

Form, Size and Position - Position

12: Reading the Landscape through Place-names

Further Reading

Selected Bibliography. Academic Sources

Literary Sources

General Publications

Websites

Index of Specific Place-names

Index of Generic Nouns found in Place-names (excluding Proper Names)

Index of Adjectives and Adjectival Nouns

Biographical note

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Acknowledgements

Preface to Second Edition

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(Gillies 1938 212)

Something peculiar also happened in Glen Quaich as the OS published new editions of the map for the area. On the first edition of its 6” to the mile sheet, Easter Turrerich burn, on the north side of Loch Freuchie is shown as Allt Cù an Teumaidh – Burn of the Biting Dog. Thereafter the transparency of that name is replaced by the mix of Scots and anglicised Gaelic in Easter Turrerich (NN863388). Turraraich may be onamatopoeic and means twittering, warbling or purling. Alltan na Turraraich is in Dundonnell.

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