Language
Found in 416 Collections and/or Records:
Note entitled 'Observations' about 'Corra cnamh', 1894
Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, entitled 'Observations' describing 'Corra cnamh' as a milkmaid sitting with her knees half bent and her skirt folded on her heels to support her instead of a stool. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note entitled 'Seachdain Na Crodha', 1884
Note entitled 'Seachdain Na Crodha' about rutting stags and the season in which this happens. Scored through is vocabulary that 'dairbeart' is a sort of water beetle. Text scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note entitled 'Splang', 1894
Note written by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Splang' which reads ' A portion, division share for example the spawn of fish before it separates is generally termed splang, splang also means the hald of a liver of fish or animal.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note of vocabulary, July 1909
Note of vocabulary which reads 'Daothal = Tuathal, Suinn = Sweton profer names'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note on a Harris expression using 'seoraiste', 1885
Note on a Harris expression using 'seoraiste' which reads 'Seoraiste = Air mo sheoraiste fhe[in] = mo chomhairle fhein. Harris.' [Na Hearadh]
Note on Caisteal Bheagrum and accompanying diagrams, 27 March 1872
Note on capercaillie, 1891
Note on the the etymology of the name capercaillie.
Note on prac, 1874 and 1891
Note about 'prac' [church teinds] probably given by John Moireson [John Morison] of Bragar [Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis], which is noted as a rent paid in kind with food. The note states that to get these factors were 'trampling over the poor people with a heart of stone.'
Note on the word 'ballac', August 1883
Note on the word 'ballac' that it means 'The play or display of lads upon men in things - often rough'.
Note on vocabulary, 1883
Note on vocabulary which reads 'Glibneach (=Glib & sneac) In Badenoch = Flineadh in Uist - butter'.