Vocabulary
Found in 389 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note for Lùthar and sketch, 1867
Vocabulary note for Lùthar and sketch probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, which reads 'A Luthar makes a dread[ful] sound pre[vious] to a West wind. It indic[ates] a gale of West wind.' The sketch shows the shape of the Lùthar.
Vocabulary note for 'Maoirnean' [cockle], June 1887
Vocabulary note for 'Maoirnean' [small cockle] describing it as 'smaller than the creach[an] [large cockle]'.
Vocabulary note for Meiricil and Uspaid, 17 October 1873
Vocabulary note, probably collected on Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis which reads 'Meiricil = miorin, pongail. Uspaid = [Br]igh = sense'.
Vocabulary note for 'mothal ' and ['uthan'], September 1909
Vocabulary note for 'mothal' and ['uthan'] which reads 'Mothal = Seed of various corn and fish mixed, An [t-uthan = luban]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note for 'Muglan' [sulky], Augsut 1909
Vocabulary note for 'Muglan' [sulky]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note for noises, 24 June 1887
Vocabulary note for noises collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann which reads 'Chomhag = ghlagach = Rattling. Whirlwind noise in air a rush.'
Vocabulary note for 'orthan' and 'boslach' [infant baptism], September 1909
Vocabulary note for 'orthan' and 'boslach' [infant baptism]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary note for plants, June 1887
Vocabulary note for plants which reads 'Mhongail-mhear = Di-thosd Foxglove = Sithean mor'. Each line of text has been scored through horizontally in pencil.
Vocabulary note for 'Rosetand = Ceann deasnain', c1892
Vocabulary note for 'Rosetand = Ceann deasnain' described as 'the end of the waxed thread used by shoemakers a common substitute for a shoe lace.'
Vocabulary note for 'Ruth' and 'Rath' and accompanying proverb, 1894
Vocabulary note for 'Ruth' and 'Rath' 'Greaning, procreation' and 'Prosperity progeny' respectively and accompanying proverb which reads 'Mas fear ealainn thu, Cluinnimid feobhas do laimh.'