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Found in 416 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note which reads 'Staoig an admadan = mischief', 1904
Vocabulary note which reads 'Staoig an admadan = mischief'.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stavornadh = Samhla = Tais', March 1874
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stavornadh = Samhla = Tais'
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stiom, Siaman a bhios eir bial [plàt]', 21 May 1869
Vocabulary note probably collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra which reads 'Stiom, Siaman a bhios eir bial [plàt]'.
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stodh = Stewing', 7 August 1886
Vocabulary note probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, which reads 'Stodh = Stewing'
Vocabulary note which reads 'Stonal = Danger Mislein Sea Grass', 1894
Vocabulary note which reads '[Stonal = Danger] Mislein Sea Grass'. There are some numbers written before the vocabulary but it is unclear what they represent.
Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework, June 1887
Vocabulary notes and saying connected to wool, basket-making and weavework probably from Hiorta/St Kilda including 'Balgan-aurais = Auras the bag in which oiled wool is put when ri calanas'; 'Adhrac-bhuaic = Horn in which grease is kept for household purposes', different words for 'Pill' including 'Sgiathag' and the saying 'Chan e aurais tha air mo chuig[e]il'.
Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge], c1894
Vocabulary notes for 'bean-nighidh' [washerwoman] and 'Freath' [edge].
Vocabulary notes for birds of prey, June 1887
Vocabulary notes for birds of prey including 'An t-Seobhag Bheag ghorm - most in braes in long heather' and 'Buzzard = Clamhan'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Vocabulary notes for types of bait, June 1887
Vocabulary notes for types of bait including 'Maoirnean = Mactra helvacia Madadh sal = Mediola miodoilus P[ollenia] rudis L Devon'. Each line of text has been scored through horizontally in pencil.
Vocabulary notes for wool, 15 December 1894
Vocabulary notes written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula for wool including 'Uanallach', 'Marbhanlach' and 'Earannach'.