English
Loch Linnhe
Loch Linnhe may come from Scottish Gaelic linne ‘pond, pool’.
- Scottish Gaelicmodernlinne‘pond, pool’uncertain
- EnglishtodayLoch Linnhe
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Scottish Gaelicmodernlinne‘pond, pool’uncertain
- EnglishtodayLoch Linnhe
The story
Linnhe is apparently from Scottish Gaelic linne.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leyH- ‘to flow’
level, deliberate, equilibrium, rattle, litre, deliberation, lira, libra, deliberative, 19 more
through Proto-Celtic *lindos
Today it means
name A sea loch in Argyll and Bute council area and Highland council area, Scotland, with its head at Fort William.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Scottish Gaelic linne / Loch Linnhe