What is a Rhu?

[Michael Paterson]

Kenton Adler <kad...@comp.uark.edu> wrote:

>If you please, I'm a piper with the Ozark Highlanders pipeband here in the
>heart of the Ozark highlands. A couple of us have begun playing a lovely
>tune called Leaving Rhu Vaternish. We have determined that Vaternish is
>at the northern tip of the Isle of Skye, but can find no reference to the
>word Rhu, and we wonder what it means.

>Anyone?

It's the Gaelic word Rudha, a masculine noun pronounced RU-ah with the
emphais on RU. It means a point of land in the sea or a promontory.

It also means "a turn" in the sense of "this once" or "this time." For
example, "cuiridh seo rudha seachad" means "this will do for this
time."

Měcheil Rob MacPhŕdruig
Drůisire:duine-uamhal

[Douglas MacGowan]

> If you please, I'm a piper with the Ozark Highlanders pipeband here in the
> heart of the Ozark highlands. A couple of us have begun playing a lovely
> tune called Leaving Rhu Vaternish. We have determined that Vaternish is
> at the northern tip of the Isle of Skye, but can find no reference to the
> word Rhu, and we wonder what it means.

A small village up the Clyde from Glasgow is called Rhu. It used to spelled Row.

- Douglas

[David Jones]

In article <31F1B9...@sirius.com>, From Douglas MacGowan
<macg...@sirius.com>, the following was written:

> spelled Row.> .

My guess is that Rhu refers to a river. Row, or rowe refers to the roll
or flow of a river (among other things).

Perhaps, if bowls row right, and Right succeeds,
Ye yet may follow where a Douglas leads!
- Burns, Scots Prologue for Mrs. Sutherland

- David

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David Jones 71224...@compuserve.com
07/24/96 16:25

[Colin Cadden]

In <09960624161450....@compuserve.com>, 71224...@compuserve.com (David Jones) writes:
>In article <31F1B9...@sirius.com>, From Douglas MacGowan
><macg...@sirius.com>, the following was written:
>>> If you please, I'm a piper with the Ozark Highlanders pipeband here
>>> in the heart of the Ozark highlands. A couple of us have begun
>>> playing a lovely tune called Leaving Rhu Vaternish. We have
>>> determined that Vaternish is at the northern tip of the Isle of Skye,
> >> but can find no reference to the word Rhu, and we wonder what it
>>> means.
>> A small village up the Clyde from Glasgow is called Rhu. It used to
>> spelled Row.> .
>
>My guess is that Rhu refers to a river. Row, or rowe refers to the roll
>or flow of a river (among other things).

Rhu refers to a 'Point' or headland. There are various spellings.