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Scottish Gaelic literature

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

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary list (no title), early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/5/9
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. As well as translations and explanations in English for most listed words*, there is a note of which manuscript and on which page of the manuscript the word can be found.The word list starts at A: "a", meaning 'a height'. (Possibly ard supposed to be written?)The word list ends at u: "uraceipt", which has...
Dates: early 20th century

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 list titled 'Coir anan san'. Copy 2, Late 19th or early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/5/12
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. As well as translations and explanations in English for most listed words*, there is a note of which manuscript and on which page of the manuscript the word can be found.The word list starts at A: "annoid". There is no translation given for this word, but it is probably cognate with modern Scottish Gaelic word annaid,...
Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century