Càrn Àirigh an Easain
hill or mountain · Highland · 348m
GaelicAI-generated
This name refers to a hill or mountain. 'Càrn' means a heap of stones or a conical hill, 'Àirigh' means a shieling or summer pasture hut, and 'easain' is the genitive plural of 'eas', meaning waterfall. It likely refers to a hill with a shieling near a waterfall.
Word origins
- Càrn
- Gaelicheap of stones, conical hill(from carn "heap of stones, conical hill")
- Àirigh
- Gaelicshieling, summer pasture hut(from àirigh "shieling, summer pasture hut")
- an Easain
- Gaelicof the waterfalls(from eas "waterfall")