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Càrn a' Mhadaidh-ruaidh

hill or mountain · Highland

GaelicAI-generated

This name refers to a cairn, which is a man-made pile of stones, likely named after a red fox. The Gaelic word 'càrn' means hill or cairn, 'a' is a possessive article, 'Mhadaidh' means fox, and 'ruaidh' means red.

Word origins

Càrn
Gaelichill, cairn(from carn "heap of stones, cairn")
a'
Gaelicof the
Mhadaidh
Gaelicfox(from madadh "dog, fox")
ruaidh
Gaelicred(from ruadh "red")