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Found in 416 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary note for 'Giuga' and 'Grodamanach', 1904

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/30
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Vocabulary note for 'Giuga = Garbage [meinich] an eisg' and 'Grodamanach = Flighty'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1904

Vocabulary note for gledeireac [courting], September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/133
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Vocabulary note which reads 'Gledeireac = Courting'.

Dates: September 1872

Vocabulary note for Glut, October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/127
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Vocabulary note which reads 'Glut, Pit hollow. Glutlionadh packing in build[in]g wall.'

Dates: October 1870

Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/182
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Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare] which reads 'Goisneach Goisneachan-ean A bird snare of horse hair'.

Dates: June 1887

Vocabulary note for Grigne [colony or number] and accompanying verse, 10 February 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/76
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Vocabulary note probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, aged 79 years, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist for Grigne describing it as a colony or a number and in some places stating that a sieve was called a grigne. What appears to be a verse reads 'Rionag an Righ, Rionag na madaine, Rionag a bhauch[aille], Nighean ri mheangain sa triuir leam sa cu sa gille sa cocair.'

Dates: 10 February 1870

Vocabulary note for 'Gu meal sibh na sgial', July 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/36
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Vocabulary note for 'Gu meal sibh na sgial' which means 'Congratulations'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909

Vocabulary note for 'guadach', 'mir' and 'dais', 18 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/147
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Vocabulary note for 'guadach', 'mir' and 'dais' which reads 'Guadach = Grace, Mir = Dais = Mir corc, mir feoir, mir aran'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 18 September 1909

Vocabulary note for hospitality, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/84
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Vocabulary note for hospitality which reads 'Fatadh = Hospitality as Fataidh am bleidre agus bithidh e oi[dh]ch agad.' Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Vocabulary note for 'Iodhlan', 'Iollach' and Iollachd', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/193
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Vocabulary note which reads 'Iodhlan = A strip of land ioman beag, Iollach = Gretheadh = Casach Iollachd = Guillachd'. The text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1894

Vocabulary note for 'Langadal', November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/24
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Vocabulary note for 'Langadal' [seaweed] that it has 'small tem + large top Barr-brag top of staimh [tangle]'.

Dates: November 1873