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a wee Scottish lake that thinks 'pond' is too pedestrian a title.
means A small lake or pool, especially one tucked into the Scottish Highlands.
from From Scottish Gaelic, where 'loch' means lake and the '-an' is a diminutive suffix — so a lochan is literally a 'little loch.' The word 'loch' itself is one of the oldest survivors of the Celtic languages of Britain, with cousins in Irish ('loch') and possibly further back in a Proto-Celtic root meaning a body of water or a hollow.
- meaning
- Gaelic diminutive of loch, a tiny lake
- the suffix
- the -an does the shrinking work
- highland count
- Scotland hides thousands across its moors
- hill terrain
- often perched in remote upland hollows
- loch's cousin
- too small to host a monster
for instance
lochan uachdaran — small loch in the scottish highlands, elevation 982m, one of the highest freshwater bodies in scotland
lochan na h-achlaise — mountain lochan in argyll and bute, scotland, known for trout fishing