The
Mounth is the range of hills on the southern edge of
Strathdee in northeast
Scotland. It was usually referred to with the article, i.e. "the Mounth". The name is a corruption of the
Scottish Gaelic monadh which in turn is akin to the
Welsh mynydd, and may be of
Pictish origin. Traditionally the people of northern Scotland did not consider the
Grampians to be a single range, but several, and these were known as the Mounth or the Mounths. Mountain ranges to the west are known as
Monadh Liath and the
Monadh Ruadh, which could be glossed as the
Grey Mounth and the
Red Mounth.