Editing Loch (section)

==Background==
[[File:LochLong(StevePartridge)Nov2007.jpg|upright|thumb|Looking down Loch Long, a long sea loch]]
[[File:Loch Lubnaig (223068248).jpg|thumb|[[Loch Lubnaig]], a reservoir]]
[[File:Lake of Menteith looking towards Port of Monteith.jpg|thumb|The [[Lake of Menteith]] (Loch Innis MoCholmaig)]]
[[File:Loch Derculich near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.JPG|thumb|[[Loch Derculich]] in Perthshire]]
This name for a body of water is [[Insular Celtic languages|Insular Celtic]]<ref name="afgh">The current form has currency in the following languages: [[Scottish Gaelic]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Manx language|Manx]], and has been borrowed into [[Scots language|Lowland Scots]], [[Scottish English]], [[Irish English]] and [[Standard English]].</ref> in origin and is applied to most lakes in [[Scotland]] and to many sea inlets in the west and north of Scotland.

Many of the loughs in Northern England have also previously been called "meres" (a Northern English dialect word for "lake", and an archaic Standard English word meaning "a lake that is broad in relation to its depth"), similar to the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] {{lang|nl|meer}}, such as the ''Black Lough'' in [[Northumberland]].<ref>{{citation|first=Stan|last=Beckensall|date=2004|title=Northumberland Place-Names|publisher=Butler Publishing|location=Thropton, Morpeth, Northumberland|isbn=978-0-946928-41-5|mode=cs1}}</ref>  

Some lochs in Southern Scotland have a [[Brittonic languages|Brythonic]], rather than [[Goidelic languages|Goidelic]], etymology, such as [[Loch Ryan]], where the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] {{lang|gd|loch}} has replaced a [[Cumbric]] equivalent of Welsh {{lang|cy|llwch}}.<ref name="BLITON">{{cite web |last1=Alan |first1=James |title=Brittonic Language In The Old North - A Guide To Place Name Elements |url=http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |access-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011121/http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |archive-date=13 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The same is, perhaps, the case for bodies of water in [[Northern England]] named with 'Low' or 'Lough', or else represents a borrowing of the Brythonic word into the Northumbrian dialect of Old English.<ref name="BLITON" />