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Feugarsaich
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[fe:ɡəʴsiç] Note: “na Feugarsaich” applied to a certain family in Ness. A family name like, say “na Fìdhleirean”. Puilean told by a member of the family that the name applied to deer-poachers in Sutherland, where one of his ancestors had come from. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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baile-frithe
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hamlet by the moor, crofting area community within access to the or to a deer forest. [NOTES: slipped under ‘baile-frìthe’. Definition: ‘Hamlet by the moor.’]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bochuill
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home-made shoes. Consisted of wooden soles and the hide of seal or deer.
Location: North Uist, [Carinish], Cnoc Cuidhein [Knockquien]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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breiche
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haunch of deer.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bùiraich
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sound of deer in rut.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Faireachdain / Senses
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bùireadh
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rutting of the deer.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cho fallain ri fiadh
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healthy as a deer.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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cuilbhear
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[ku̟lu̟vɑð] Note: used of a spurt of blood as knife is plunged into the belly of deer (Bàrd Phabbaigh).
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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earb
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roe deer.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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earb
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[ən jɑrɑp] roe deer. [NOTES: the slip has [ən jarɑp].]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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earba
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roe deer.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eillearaig
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deer corral. Also ‘eiltrich’.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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faobhadach
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carcases of deer, etc.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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fiadhmhíola
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wild animals (deer, etc.); hence fiadh – a deer (from adj?).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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fiagh
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deer.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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geir féidh
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deer fat. [NOTES: all four above slipped together under ‘geir’.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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greigh
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[ɡɾ[ɤi]] Notes: herd, e.g. of deer.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie, Alltan Dubh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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grèidh
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herd of deer. (Bays)
Location: Harris, Borisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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langanaich
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Notes: the bellowing of deer.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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laogh
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[ɫɤ:ɣ] Notes: calf of a cow or deer.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leabaidh-na-gréighe
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the resting place of deer, sheep and cattle, an roinn dhe’n talamh air a bi ’ad laighe.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leth-chabrach
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lobster with claw missing (also deer).
Location: Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Iasgach a’ Ghiomaich / Lobster-Fishing
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mar fiadh na beinne
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healthy as deer, as healthy as the deer of the hill.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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mulchag
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[mulaxɑk] geir feidh [sic] [deer fat] in a mould (endowed with healing powers – any wound or baby’s navel). [NOTES: slipped under ‘mulchag’ with ‘mulchag geir feidh’ as the quotation. Definition: Deer fat in a mould. Endowed with healing properties – for a wound or was rubbed on a baby’s navel.]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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mìolradh (coll. n)
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animals (deer, etc.).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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os, ois
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old name for deer; fiadh means just “wild”, abbrev. of fiadhmhìol.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poca-buidhe
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Note: fat on the “maodal” of the deer.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poca-buidhe
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Note: tripe (usually of deer).
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poll
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Quotation: poll-buirean [p[ɤu]ɫbu͎:ɾɑṉ]. Notes: a patch of ground churned into mud by the stamping of deer at the rutting season.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poll-búirean
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Notes: area of ground churned underfoot by deer in the rutting season.
Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poll-dàmhair
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rutting-soil (deer), rutting-mire. [SLIP: Miry soil in which deer have rutted.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ruadhag
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roe deer, roe.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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slat-chabar
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Note: a pointless deer antler.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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slat-chabrach
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Note: a deer with pointless antlers.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sliabh-spianaidh
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Notes: “Deer Grass”. Used for thatching. Found on hillsides; pulled up by the roots.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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streighleag
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This was little bits of jelly stuff which starts coming away from a cow a week or about ten days before she calves and also the little bits which fall away for two or three days after she calves but not the afterbirth or the cleaning as we call it here, which is the English word we give to it hereabout. ‘ei’ as in ‘feidh’ (genitive of deer).
Origin: Inverness-shire, Nethy Bridge
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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àbhaich
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deer. (Sutherland)
Location: Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
