Sayings
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Five sayings used to wish people well, 8 March 1895
Five sayings written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula used to wish people well including a saying 'used when giving medicine to man or beast suffering from lingering disease.' The first saying begins 'Cluig slainte, cnaimh t-anochair'; the second 'Seachd sonais nan seachd rath air gach mac 'us nighean'; the third begins 'Uisge craonabhoineach geal'; the fourth 'Grian an cridhe na h' aird' and the final one 'Doinnean air aghaidh a chuain mhoir'.
Fragment of a note, vocabulary and place-name notes, 10 July 1870
Notes which read,' The St Kilda woman's buitseac[hd]. Starrag = A crow. Liabost, Lybster, Innoruige, Wick, Innorthorsai Thurso' [Liabost/Lybster, Inbhir Uige/Wick, Inbhir Theòrsa/Thurso, Gallaibh/Caithness].
Fragment of a poem or sayings entitled 'Bailgfhionn' [white-bellied calf], 1895
Fragment of a poem or sayings written down by John Ewen MacRury in ink entitled 'Bailgfhionn' [white-bellied calf] which reads 'Laoigh Bhailfhionn an t seann-duine call codach, Laoigh Bhailgfhionn an duine oig cur ann codach.'
Fragment of a verse or saying about shellfish and sheep, June 1887
Fragment of a verse or saying about shellfish and sheep which reads 'Maorach cailleach gun fhaochag is i is as fhaotin, Caoirich cailleach +c'.
Illegible items possibly containing quotations, vocabulary and etymology, c1893
Illegible items possibly containing quotations, vocabulary and etymology.
Incomplete notes on seal-hunting areas around North Uist and accompanying sayings, c1875
Incomplete notes on the different areas and pennylands in the north west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and the proportion of caught seals they receive and an accompanying note relating to Odar, the Viking raider, whose head was buried in Griminis/Griminish.
List entitled 'Gnath-Fhocail', c1862
List entitled 'Gnath-Fhocail' containing proverbs and sayings on subjects such as days, weather, seasons and living creatures.
List of maledictions and accompanying note, 1894
List of maledictions including 'Geolaich ort', 'Ballachd ort' and 'Clisgeadh ort' and accompanying note which reads 'The teaching of the 12 in bapt[ising] in run[nin]g streams = 7 siona from 7 streams.' The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.