#The Buachaille

[ancestorsalive]

My favourite place in Scotland. Glencoe!

The Buachaille Etive Mòr and River Coupall Waterfall

Buachaille Etive Mòr, Scottish Gaelic: Buachaille Èite Mòr, 'great herdsman of Etive', also known simply as 'The Buachaille', is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland.

Photography by Lors, UK.

[kylebonallo]

Buachaille Etive Mor by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[breathtakingdestinations]

Buachaille Etive Mor - Scotland (by Judith)

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Buachaille Etive Mòr waterfalls, Highlands, Scotland

Photograph: Jay Birmingham

Mountain Photo Of The Year Competition

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[masked-disciple]

Irish Duolingo wants me dead. Greek Duolingo, on the other hand, is my friend and I love them.

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The Beehive Cluster over the Great Herdsman, Glencoe.

Scotland's most famous mountain - Buachaille Etive Mòr is iconic for a reason. Viewed from the A82 road on the way past it looks incredible, and even more so if summited - with amazing views over the flat, vast Rannoch Moor that lies off to the East.

The Beehive Cluster is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer. One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, it contains a larger population of stars than other nearby bright open clusters holding around 1,000 stars. Under dark skies, the Beehive Cluster looks like a small nebulous object to the naked eye, (a little fuzzy patch of light) and has been known since ancient times. It was among the first objects that Galileo studied with his telescope.

This looks quite beautiful and serene but I was well aware how dangerous the scene was. At this area there is a huge bog which had partially frozen in areas as the temperature dipped to a cool minus 7 celsius. In the pitch black with my feet sliding about next to water and rocks is always something that makes you work much slower and deliberately.

- Steven Robinson

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Leagan Gaeilge na postála seo 🤗:

Rud amháin fúmsa ná is buachaill mé ar breá liom gile an scáileáin a chastáil síos📱👀

one thing about me is i am a boy who loves to turn down the screen brightness

[milesaerach]

Wearing dean coded clothes as a cas girlie* has always been a favourite of mine

[misfitwandersdani]

Embark on an enchanting winter adventure with our guide to the best winter hiking destinations, from the mystical trails of the Scottish Highlands to the panoramic views of the Tatras. Discover trails for an unforgettable winter hiking experience.

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i was also thinking this. also his nickname, instead of pepsi it's like Lucozade or (flat) 7up 😭😭

Just thinking about how sodapop would probably be called, fizzy drinks-fizzy drinks in Ireland cause that what we call soda/pop (i think thats what ye call it in America) here

[kylebonallo]

Buachaille Etive Mor by Kyle Bonallo

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Good Morning from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sunrise at Buachaille Etive Mòr.

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[gaelstrym]

Something about... semantic change... (in Irish)

Bliain Mhaith Úr, a mhuintir.

Like all languages, words in Irish can (and will) warp their meanings over time - a process linguists like to call semantic change. Over its many long years of being spoken, Irish has altered the meanings of many of its fine little words.

Originally, before there was Irish, in Proto-Celtic (Irish's ancestor language), the word for sun was *sāwūl. This word would survive in Irish as súil, but the word's meaning would shift from sun to eye. This is more of a poetic re-imagining, as one could interpret the Sun as the "eye of the sky". The modern Irish word for sun is grian, originally from the Proto-Celtic term *grēnā, which probably meant "the hot one".

Another good example would be scamall, the Irish word for cloud. The word was originally a diminutive borrowing of Latin squama, meaning animal scale. Over time, however, the meaning shifted from scale to membrane to eye occlusion (which I personally don't get the jump there, but whatever) to cloud. The original Proto-Celtic word is thought to be something like *neglo.

And for a last one, a great example would be buachaill, one of our words for boy. In Old Irish, buachaill was the word for cowherd, descending from Proto-Celtic *boukolyos. I guess the similarity here is that the ultimate Proto-Indo-European roots were *gʷṓws ("cow") and *kʷel- ("to turn"), which is something a young boy on a farm would do, although I'm not sure. The other Irish word for boy is gasúr, which is loaned from Norman garçun, meaning servant.

And alas, those are just 3 of the many other shifting words in the Irish language. There are plenty other examples of words such as these, but I didn't think I'd be able to squeeze so many into one post, so I'll leave it at here for now.

Go maire sibh an lá, a chairde.

[starkey]

Day 5: 72/97 miles

daydreaming about hiking the west highland way solo next year ✨