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(B)adag Chruaidh
This week’s phrases are ‘badag chruaidh’ and ‘adag(-)chruaidh’, which both describe specific types of rainbow.
‘Badag chruaidh’ is a small section of rainbow suspended in the sky which contains the full spectrum of colours. This is usually seen in showery weather. ‘Badag chruaidh’ was collected in Barrapol on the Isle of Tiree.
In the DASG Fieldwork Archive, we can find two meanings for ‘adag chruaidh’. In Stoneybridge on South Uist, ‘adag chruaidh’ refers to part of a rainbow, which if seen in the West would mean it would rain from the East.
There is a slightly different meaning for ‘adag-chruaidh’ in South Lochboisdale, South Uist, which describes a fragment of a rainbow seen in the morning, which would be a sign of bad weather.
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