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Many of the loughs in
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meaning a "low-lying bit of land in
Menteith", is applied to the loch there because of the similarity of the sounds of the words
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named with 'Low' or 'Lough', or else represents a borrowing of the
Brythonic word into the Northumbrian dialect of Old English.
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Lochs which connect to the sea may be called "sea lochs" or "sea loughs". Some such bodies of water could also be called
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in origin and is applied to most lakes in
Scotland and to many sea inlets in the west and north of
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schemes have been given names faithful to the names for natural bodies of water. For example, the
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As "loch" is a common Gaelic word, it is found as the root of several
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being taken into
Scottish Gaelic by the gradual replacement of much
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Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish, represents
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sound. This form was therefore used when the
English settled
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The current form has currency in the following languages:
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Scotland has very few bodies of water called lakes. The
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273:remained, hence the modern Scottish English
16:Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or sea inlet
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412:Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is
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549:The word "loch" is sometimes used as a
370:Some lochs in Southern Scotland have a
139:Looking down Loch Long, a long sea loch
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193:("lake, pool"), and is related to the
359:(lower case initial), rather than as
304:(such as in today's Welsh placenames
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782:participating institution membership
634:in Scotland. Similarly, lakes named
568:Lochs outside Scotland and Ireland
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970:Highlands and Islands of Scotland
908:"LOCH | Pronunciation in English"
583:, on the south coast of the main
177:This name for a body of water is
990:Lakes of the Republic of Ireland
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579:The United States naval port of
269:. The Scots convention of using
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975:Scottish coast and countryside
618:In the Scottish settlement of
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451:can be considered sea lochs.
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834:Northumberland Place-Names
483:hydroelectric scheme near
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1000:Lakes of Northern Ireland
832:Beckensall, Stan (2004).
761:Oxford English Dictionary
724:List of loughs of England
719:List of loughs of Ireland
714:List of lochs of Scotland
336:orthography in Scotland.
912:dictionary.cambridge.org
479:(which form part of the
200:("lake, pond"), English
26:Not to be confused with
766:Oxford University Press
367:and so on, is unusual.
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607:is a sea loch, near
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489:Blackwater Reservoir
390:equivalent of Welsh
204:("lake") and French
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652:Nova Scotia
648:Loch Lomond
540:Lake Louise
441:Loch Linnhe
422:Loch Lomond
349:Black Lough
239:Northumbria
45:Loch Lomond
959:Categories
917:2 December
784:required.)
740:References
734:Lake-burst
664:Loch Leven
656:Loch Leven
636:Loch Broom
632:Loch Garry
587:island of
551:shibboleth
544:Raith Lake
461:reservoirs
131:Background
41:Ben Lomond
980:Hydronymy
688:in 1823.
684:named by
682:Greenland
674:Loch Fyne
555:fricative
469:Loch Sloy
459:Some new
449:Afon Dyfi
437:Loch Fyne
433:Loch Long
414:Loch Ness
380:Loch Ryan
372:Brythonic
330:Brittonic
322:Maesllwch
294:Old Welsh
117:estuaries
86:sea inlet
692:See also
640:Big Loch
585:Hawaiian
481:Lochaber
426:Loch Tay
418:Loch Awe
376:Goidelic
334:Goidelic
183:Scotland
90:Scottish
39:View of
943:15 June
878:29 July
755:"lough"
609:Lafonia
603:in the
530:. The
511:of the
388:Cumbric
310:Llwchwr
267:Ireland
243:Cumbria
235:Cumbric
121:straits
43:across
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662:, and
646:, and
491:above
473:Laggan
443:, and
407:lochán
403:lochan
365:inlets
357:loughs
318:Amlwch
259:bright
255:bricht
113:fjords
109:firths
102:lochan
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191:lókus
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818:and
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463:for
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