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Found in 416 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/43
Scope and Contents

Vocabularly note for 'Luirgneachan' and 'Gearraiste', the former being 'that part of the tether next the foot' and the latter 'the part next the ciopain the udalan between'. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary connected with sea-life, 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/51
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary connected with sea-life including am bùite (puffin) and cearc-scràbaire (black guillemot or razorbill).

Dates: 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for a frog, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/81
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for a frog, possibly from travelling people (often known as 'tinker's cant'), which reads 'Mola-mhogan - miolamhag muile, mhag-murra-mhaga = Frog'. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'athla' [heifer], August 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/60
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'athla' [heifer].

Dates: August 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'carsail', 'cladhan' [byre drain], 11 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/101
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for carsail, cladhan [byre drain]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 11 September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'ceann gropai' and 'marag-deochdai[dh]', August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/118
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'ceann gropai' and 'marag-deochdai[dh]' meaning cod liver and oatmeal boiled in cods head and cod liver and meal boiled in cod intestine.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'Cioch-shlugain' and 'Glas-chiodhlan', September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/128
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'Cioch-shlugain' [cìoch-shlugain or uvula] and 'Glas-chiodhlan' [glas-chìodhlan or lock-jaw]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for different mammal placentas, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/23
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for different mammal placentas including 'Teana', 'Cruthach', 'Badhar' and 'Seile' for the placenta of a woman, mare, cow and hind or roe or sheep or goat respectively.

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'faoileann' [a reef or bank] and accompanying saying, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/334
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'faoileann' [a reef or bank] and accompanying saying which reads 'Sinn in shuidhe air an fhaoil[eann] sinn gun fhaoilt gun fhurran'.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary for 'fire' and 'wall recess', August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/39
Scope and Contents

Note on vocabulary that 'buthail' is a recess in a wall and 'aingeal' means a fire probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael