Vocabulary
Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note for 'Sasag', November 1873
Vocabulary note which reads 'Sasag = a straw chair like the fourth of a barrel cut out of it.'
Vocabulary note for seals and otters, c1893
Vocabulary note for seals and otters that 'Biromal' is a male seal, 'Biast-mhaol' is a female seal and 'Biast-dubh' is an otter. Also notes that 'Biromallaich the west side N[orth] Uist people'.
Vocabulary note for 'seocair' [hawker], June 1887
Vocabulary note for 'seocair' [hawker] that it is the man who carries a hawk on his shoulder 'a tall strippling'.
Vocabulary note for Sganagan an liseag, 1871
Vocabulary which reads 'Sganagan an liseag (linseag) tha eir an eanachain the membrane round the brain.'
Vocabulary note for 'Sgiobal', a barn, 1901
Vocabulary note for 'Sgiobal' which reads 'Sgiobal = barn, especially barn where tithes are collected as Sgiobhal Skibo in Sutherland [Cataibh] once the seat of the bishop'.
Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'], c1872
Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'].
Vocabulary note for 'Sile' [generation], October 1892
Vocabulary note which reads 'Sile = Generation'.
Vocabulary note for 'Stèireadh', 1867
Vocabulary note, probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which reads 'Stèireadh = Killing birds at the top of a rock with a long stick like a stone fishing rod.'
Vocabulary note for stop [churn], 10 July 1870
Vocabulary note for stop [churn] collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay describing it as 'a smaller kind of churn with the imedeal tied round with an ial'.
Vocabulary note for 'Sunadan', 1885
Vocabulary note for the word 'Sunadan', which reads 'Sunadan, an pl. bun Na tracha of which ropes are made for sintean, teodhraichean, and the like. Teithean are similar.'