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Vocabulary

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

Found in 389 Collections and/or Records:

Note on the work 'spagada-glig', September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/286
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Note on the word 'spagada-glig' [spagda-gliog] collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that it was 'App[lied] to Macleans as spagada-glig Chlann an Leathain'.

Dates: September 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on vocabulary, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/197
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Note on vocabulary which reads 'Glibneach (=Glib & sneac) In Badenoch = Flineadh in Uist - butter'.

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on vocabulary, 10 March 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/20
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Note on vocabulary which reads 'Tairbhean, animal over-blown with food; at le biadh a lughdach [eir] do bhuilge'.

Dates: 10 March 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on vocabulary for 'castle passage', 14 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/4
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Note on vocabulary that 'Laine' and 'Loine' are words for 'castle passage'.

Dates: 14 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note under the heading 'Roin' entitled 'Cousmal', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/21
Scope and Contents Note under the heading 'Roin' entitled 'Cousmal' [Causmal] collected from an unnamed old man in Scolpaig, Uist a Chinn Tuath [Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] in 1865, giving names for seals from Causmal according to who receives them so that the minister of Cille-mhoire's [Kilmuir] seals are 'cuilein Moire', the laird's 'cuilean maoirneac', the smith's 'cuilein goibhneac' and the Boidhreidh [Boraraigh/Boreray people] the 'biast Bhoireach' since Boreray is close to Haisgeir...
Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads '12 men in the Cleir sheanachain', 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/5
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Note which reads '12 men in the Cleir sheanachain' [cliar sheanchain or itinerant band/sorners]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads 'Calamor = Falmair H. Kake.', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/81
Scope and Contents

Note collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Calamor = Falmair H. Kake.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads 'Dyes - Alder bark Roid (bog myrtle) brambles', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/249
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Dyes - Alder bark Roid (bog myrtle) brambles'

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note which reads ' Hake = Fence of Gates', July 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/25
Scope and Contents

Note which reads ' Hake = Fence of Gates'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 12 September 1890 to 1895

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael but also used by John Ewen MacRury. The front cover bears a sticker which reads 'Gaelic Notes 1894-5. (Collection of traditions, tales, etc. by Alexander Carmichael (?). Many pages cancelled, indicating publication.) [Carmichael Watson Collection]'. The flyleaf reads 'Gaelic Notes, 1894-5' and the rear flyleaf contains a jotting which reads 'Wishing Guidhe'. The beginning of the notebook contains field notes made by Carmichael in Uibhist a...
Dates: 12 September 1890 to 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

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