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Scottish Gaelic language

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = EUA

Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary list (no title), Late 19th or early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/5/14
Scope and Contents A list of words, which may have been used to compile notes on Gaelic manuscripts, or was in preparation for a dictionary, with modern Scottish Gaelic words spelled according to the conventions of the time*.The word list starts at A: "aicside". The contemporary Scottish Gaelic word listed is difficult to decipher, and there is no English note.The word list ends at U: "uáth", which is listed as meaning "úir" (today as ...
Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

Vocabulary note entitled 'Heigir or Eigir', 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/76
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Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Heigir or Eigir' describing the term as being commonly used amongst old highlanders and 'often used as a nick-name ofr hald grown boys, having a pale looking face long thin bones and bent inwards casan cuiladh or cuile.' He describes how it is pronounced in different parts of Gaelic-speaking Scotland with examples of expressions. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895