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PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 1:42 pm 
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This is for a book I'm co-authoring. How would I say "White Swan Lake". I know a lake is a "loch." Also, I'm interested in any other domestic animal names. Is there a list somewhere?

Thanks for your help. You have been helpful in the past.

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 Post subject: Re: Animal names
PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 3:10 pm 
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The White Swan is - An Eala Bhàn, but in the dictionary this means a mute swan and it is also the name of a well-known song written by a soldier to his girlfriend when he was in the trenches in WW1 so this has a special meaning for many older speakers of Gàidhlig. The version sung by Julie Fowlis has been unfavourably compared to the version (on You Tube) by Hugh Matheson.
If you are looking for vocabulary in Scots Gaelic there's Lexilogos (Stor-Dàta and B.Beag)


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PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 4:22 pm 
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Many thanks!

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PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 5:53 pm 
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scw1217 wrote:
This is for a book I'm co-authoring. How would I say "White Swan Lake". I know a lake is a "loch." Also, I'm interested in any other domestic animal names. Is there a list somewhere?

Thanks for your help. You have been helpful in the past.


To answer your question, there are actually two ways to say the expression.

The grammatically correct way is Loch na h-eala bhàine
but what may be more commonly used in everyday speech is Loch na h-eala bhàin [without the final "e"]
This has to do with the fact that many traditional case endings in Gaelic have merged (or are merging) into common forms.

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 Post subject: Re: Animal names
PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 8:00 pm 
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Also on Lexilogos there's this (though I hope it isn't too out of date)

https://archive.org/details/gaelicnamesofbea00forbuoft


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PostPosted: Fri 05 Sep 2014 10:55 pm 
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Super! Both are helpful!

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