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Buachaille Etive Mòr

Buachaille Etive Mòr


Postby Amesy74 » Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:11 am

What are the conditions on the old girl, any snow or is it just a bit wet and drab?

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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby jmarkb » Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:51 am

Amesy74 wrote:just a bit wet and drab


Yup. http://glencoeblog.sais.gov.uk/2022/01/poor-visibility-6/
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby Amesy74 » Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:01 am

Thank you very much heading up tomorrow/sat for a wee wonder, might take my cagoul then :crazy:
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby gman » Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:09 am

http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/

The last image shows the Buachaille
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby jmarkb » Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:26 am

Looking at the forecast, I would not bother tomorrow. Sat afternoon looks better after the front clears through.
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby calicoshmalico » Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:15 pm

"the old girl"

"the Great Herdsman of Etive" :crazy:
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby NickyRannoch » Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:53 pm

It's a mountain. Mountains are feminine in Gaelic
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby Dave Hewitt » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:48 am

NickyRannoch wrote:It's a mountain. Mountains are feminine in Gaelic

I'm not sure that Am Bodach is feminine, though - or The Devil's Point, for that matter! There's a bit in Hamish Brown's Munros walk book where he talks about sexing hills, with the idea that Ben Lui is feminine.
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby nigheandonn » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:59 am

Women are grammatically masculine in Gaelic, but it doesn't mean you call a specific woman 'he'. Two different things.
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby simon-b » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:47 pm

nigheandonn wrote:Women are grammatically masculine in Gaelic, but it doesn't mean you call a specific woman 'he'. Two different things.

So the sisters and brothers of Kintail are all individually sisters and collectively brothers!
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby simon-b » Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:50 pm

Sorry nighe, at first I thought you meant women are masculine in the plural. Now I guess that's not what you were actually saying.
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby nigheandonn » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:29 pm

I like that idea!

No, I just meant that grammatical gender is confusing. It's true that 'beinn' is grammatically feminine in Gaelic, and so if wanted to to say something (daft) like 'that is a mountain, it is big', the word you use for 'it' is the same word that you would use for 'she'.

'Boireannach'/'woman' is grammatically masculine, but you (probably*) wouldn't say 'that is a woman, he is tall', because the real life gender of the woman seems to overrule the grammatical gender of the word in that context.

So if you think a mountain has a real life gender, and that gender is male, I don't see why you couldn't call it 'he', or 'the old boy', any more than you couldn't call a woman 'she' because her word is masculine.

(*I'm not sure if it would actually be ungrammatical, or just odd. Some languages are probably stricter than others about complete grammatical agreement of gender, regardless of real life influences.)

I have thought about this too much!
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby nigheandonn » Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:33 pm

On the other hand, if you call ships 'she', you probably still apply that to MV Clansman...

(Should I report myself for being off topic? I'll go away now.)
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby simon-b » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:23 pm

To bring things back to the hillwalking topic, I wonder what gender Gaelic cat is in Lochan nan Cat? Bearing in mind kitten is neuter in German, even if it hasn't been neutered, but cat is feminine, even if it's been neutered.
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Re: Buachaille Etive Mòr

Postby Glengavel » Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:11 pm

NickyRannoch wrote:It's a mountain. Mountains are feminine in Gaelic


That's fine for the Sow of Atholl but what about the Boar of Badenoch?
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