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GameKeeper, I have just added the box on the article page, and the co-ords in Nicholson (1995) are slightly different from the ones you added at the top. Yours may well be more accurate. If you believe them to be so could you amend the box accordingly or vice versa? (Nicholson only quotes degree and minutes, no seconds). Thanks,
Ben MacDui16:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC)reply
Mystery solved - according to the NLB the painting is by
Sam Bough. I am afraid the title on the image frame is just a guess. However if anyone knows how to get hold of a copy of the original booklet - 'The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire. Edited with an Introduction by Roger G. Swearingen (1995)' by RLS, which is probably out of print, I'd be pleased to hear from them. I have contacted all four organisations on the cover. None are available in Scotland; no reply from the USA as yet.
Ben MacDui(Talk)21:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)reply
This information is derived from
MacFie,
Macduffie and
Dubthaigh, all of which emanate from the same User source and which link to the web page specified by the Clan Macduffie Society reference. I have not actually read the original documents although my limited grasp of
gaelic suggests that the derivations of the names are at least plausible. See also
Talk:MacFie.
Ben MacDuiTalk10:04, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
[Continued from
User talk:Blisco My gut feeling is that the Macduffie connection is a red herring. The explanation
here that the name derives from an uibh-hirteach seems at least plausible, though I'd like to see a more reliable source for it rather than anonymous "modern etymologists". Dubh Artach and Dhu Heartach are almost certainly variant forms, but it's not necessarily a "phonetic" anglicisation as such; it may follow older Scottish Gaelic or Irish spelling conventions, and/or reflect an older pronunciation, or may even be a cartographer's error. Note that the letter H isn't used as a consonant in its own right in modern Gaelic, though the sound is represented by combinations such as th and sh.
Given the similarity with the Irish form of Dooherty, it strikes me as possible that
folk etymology was at work (i.e. the original name was Dhu Heartach, but as this was an unfamiliar name to Gaelic speakers and the personal name Dubh Artaich was familiar, the name of the rock was reinterpreted as deriving from the personal name). However, this is pure speculation and shouldn't really be in the article unsourced, though I've included it for now with a {{fact}} tag in case anyone can back it up.
My best suggestion is to pare it down to the hard sourced facts, and keep an eye out for any books that might provide a better answer. --
Blisco23:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Bit late as a response but I've only just come across this ; ) The Dubh Artach and Dhu Heartach issue is easy. The pronunciation of this given is wrong - it should be [d̪̊uh arˠʃd̪̊əx] and the final [h] in pronunciation latches onto the next word if it starts with a vowel (cf English cases of an uncle ~ a nuncle) which leads to the re-interpretation of Artach > Heartach. As far as the etymology goes, I'm not sure of the need to go looking for fancy etymologies, artach is a good (if now obsolete) word for rock or stony ground (see good old
Dwelly).
I'm also not sure where the funny etymology for Dooherty comes from... most reliable sources on Irish surnames give the etymology as < dochartach 'hurtful' or (in case of the variant Doorty) dubh 'black' and art 'bear' (that's an Irish root not commonly found in Scotland). So I think given the nature of the object, the obvious meaning is the right one.
Akerbeltz (
talk)
09:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Fair enough. The phonetic hieroglyphics are a complete mystery to me and I have no objection to them being changed. If you can provide a Dwelly reference I'll amend the text for that interpretation (and/or the "reliable sources on Irish surnames") if you like. Cheers.
Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk18:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I've redone it and added the references. Personally I'd be inclined to remove most of the specualtion... it sounds like it's purely speculation anyway (there are references but they're about the etymologies of the surnames, not the place name). For one thing, if the rock was named after someone, that would involve genitive case marking in Gaelic and you'd get (for example) *Creag Dhubhartaich in Gaelic but not with -ach at the end... we could remove the speculation and see if someone comes along and can point to a source which lists the speculation, we can revert it. What do you think?
Akerbeltz (
talk)
19:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Thanks for doing this, it is all rather more clear now. The original version began as an short attempt to explain and ended up taking on a life of its own. As you have no doubt seen I have replaced some references and other bits of pieces that I think are still relevant. A question I have is that it now reads "suggesting *hartach or heartach to the untrained ear." Is the asterisk intended? It doesn't convey anything to me I'm afraid.
Ben MacDuiTalk/Walk08:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Pleasure. The asterisk is intended, it is used in linguistics to mark words which are "theoretical" but are not recorded as such. For example, if I wrote a history of the word
Jedi and wanted to theorise that this comes from an earlier form Jeddiq because of some general rules about Star Wars names that I've discovered, then I would have to mark it as *Jeddiq because it's pure theory and there is no record anywhere of such a word.
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09:12, 14 April 2008 (UTC)reply
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Getting really close, but only one thing bothers me:
The Later events section, point 5, doesn't completely explain why the name of the lighthouse was changed from Dhuheartach to Dubh Artach. Is there no real or speculative reason to be found? If so, just say so, but your second paragraph implies that there is more infomation to be had on this subject?
I have updated this list to include only the remaining point that I feel is left and I'll update the 'On Hold' status.
BTW:Looking at you use of the word 'probably' again, I understand that must be a quote from your publication.
That's a much better explanation! While I agree that a recent photo whould be nice, it's not necessary for GA status and all the other points have clearly been adressed.
Hi there, I e-mailed the West Lothian Sub-Aqua club and they gave us permission to use their picture from their website on Wikipedia. I've uploaded the picture here and left it for someone else's choice on postiton and size, but you may want to licence it better:
I've created a location map as requested on
Scottish Wikipedians' notice board. The image is based on a non-scalable png file. If you would rather loose the contour information but have the image of lossless quality let me know and I will make it a vector graphic image.
I struggled to put it on the main page and have it look nice. I feel, in this case, having Orkney and Shetland on the map is distracting. At some point creating a
location map without Orkney and Shetland might be a good idea as for showing locations they distract from the message trying to be put across. I suppose I should discuss that elsewhere.
Also I don't know if you would rather have a higher quality image, but still zoomed in to the west coast? An idea which has just occurred to me is to create a vector image with all of Scotland small in a corner, with a box drawn on it to show which section of the west coast we are showing in more detail. What do people think of this idea? I'll have a play when I have some time.
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This is a really nice article with which I only have two issues:
The sources used need to include the page number(s) of the books/journals being relied on for the information.
The lead is just a little too short to adequately summarise the article.
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