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Verbal behaviour

 Subject

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Proverb beginning 'Eisdeachd math us labhair math', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/158
Scope and Contents

Proverb which reads 'Eisdeachd math us labhair math, Us cluinnear an rud a ta ann/ bha s a th'ann.'

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Proverb beginning 'Is farsuinn am facal', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/159
Scope and Contents

Proverb which reads 'Is farsuinn am facal nach foghainn sa bhial - nach labhar am bial''

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for the word Cramhan, 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/107
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula for the word Cramhan describing it as 'a continual low murmuring complaint by any person kept up for no other purpose than to keep on grumbling and dissatisfying others.'

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael