Chapter XXX: Appendix: C

SOME LOCAL PYRENEAN TERMS AND THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.

_Artigue_, pasturage, prairie. _Barranque_, a deep hollow or ravine. _Borde, Bourdette_, farm-house, barn, cot. _Caire, Quaire, Quaïrat_, a cone-shaped peak, rocky and bare. _Canaou_, narrow ravine worn by the snow. _Cap_, mountain tip. _Clot_, a valley without exit. _Colline_, a small valley, a dale. _Cortal, Courtaou_, sheep-fold, sheep-pen. _Couila, Couillade_, shepherd's cabin, hut, fertile vale. _Estibe_, pasturage, feeding-ground. _Estibère_, a well-pastured mountain. _Fitte_, pointed summit. _Montagne_, feeding-ground (on a mountainside). _Neste_, mountain torrent. _Orrhy, Orri_, shepherd's hut. _Oule_, a bowl-shaped valley. _Pech, Pouey, Puy_, a mountain of no great height, in the Western Pyrenees; but also applied to loftier summits, in the Eastern range. _Pène, Peña, Penne_, pointed rock. _Peyre_, a large crag. _Piche, Pisse_, a cascade waterfall. _Pinède, Pinade_, pine forest, site of pine forest. _Pique_, synonymous with _Fitte_, pointed summit, peak. _Pla, Plan_, a valley with level meadows. _Prade, Pradère_, similar to _Estibe_, feeding-ground, meadow. _Raillère_, steep decline, avalanche channel. _Roque_, a mountain, steep and covered with crags. _Sarrat, Serre, Serrère_, a sharp-toothed crest, backbone of mountain. _Sarre_, a small hill. _Séoube, Scube_, wood, forest. _Tausse, Truc, Truque, Tuc_, a steep and lofty peak with large buttresses.

The _Defiles_ and _Passes_ of the mountains for which the word _Col_ is generally applied, bear many other names, of which the following, with their special significations, are the chief:--

_Core_, a pass on a side range or small lateral chain. _Fourgue, Fourquette, Hourque, Hourquette_, generally applied to passes on the small side ranges. _Pas_, a pass difficult of approach. _Port_, a pass in the principal chain. _Porteil, Portillon, Pourtet_, passes in the principal or side chains.