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Cadal fada ri gaoith mhóir
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fishing proverb meaning you could sleep in in [sic] [if?] weather was bad.
Location: Barra, Eoligarry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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Dòmhnull Solt
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An cadal.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cadal]
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Cadal cha dean mi, cadal cha dean mise / Lochd cha d’fhuair an raoir / ’S an nochd chan fhaigh drùb idir.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cadal]
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Tha an cadal orm. – I am sleepy.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cadal]
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Cadal fada nan ceannaichean.
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cadal]
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Cadal fada le gaoith mhoir.
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cadal]
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Leisg, leisg a’ dol a chadal, seachd leisg gu eiridh.
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[loiceadh]
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An d’fhuair thu cadal? Cha d’fhuair loiceadh.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[moch-airidh]
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“Fear dha tig ainm na moch-airidh faodaidh e cadal gu feasgar.”
Location: South Uist, Iochdar, Ardivachar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[priobadh]
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An d’fhuair thu cadal? Cha d’fhuair priobadh.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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an-àm
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Quot.: ’S e cadal-ceàrnach cadal ann an an-àm. Note: at the wrong time.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-deilgneach. Notes: pins and needles (< dealg, thorn). Not in Dw. (Oh!)
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-iongnach. Notes: “pins and needles”.
Location: Ross-shire, Polbain
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-ceàrnach. Notes: a sleep at the wrong time.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal nan con ’s a’ mhuilinn. Notes: as if sleeping but at the same time on the alert for the oatmeal to appear.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: Tha ’n cadal-iongnach ’na mo chas. Notes: pins and needles.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-iongnach. Notes: pins and needles.
Origin: Culkein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-deilgneachan. Notes: pins and needles.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal
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Quotation: cadal-deiligeanach [kɑd̪əɫdʹeliɡʹɑ̃ṉɑx]. Notes: “pins and needles”.
Origin: Strontian
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal a’ gheòidh
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half asleep. Goose sleeps with one eye open.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal cearnach
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cat nap.
Origin: Lewis and Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal coileachan
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this was a phrase used when putting a cockerel to sleep. His head was put under one of its wings and this phrase was repeated 2 or 3 times – ‘cadal, cadal coileachan’. Have seen this being done myself.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal deiligneach
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pins and needles.
Origin: [South Uist]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
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cadal-a-bhàis
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death sleep.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal-ceàrnach
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Note: a sleep at the wrong time.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cadal-deilgneach
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Note: pins and needles.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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deiligneachan
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Quotation: cadal-deiligneachan. Notes: pins and needles.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eadarag
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for eadradh, noon. “Am fear a gheibh ainm na mocheirigh, feudaidh e cadal gu eadarag.” (deireadh a’ mhaduinn)
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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loisinneach
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undisturbed. “Cadal loisinneach.”
Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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moch-eirigh
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Quotation: Am fear ainm na moch-eirigh, faodaidh e cadal gu meadhon-la.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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post
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Quotation: a’ cadal ris a’ phost. Notes: sleeping at the outer edge of the best [?]. Same as “a’ cadal ris a’ bhòrd”.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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seid
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leabaidh de chamhlach air an làr – aodach leabadh air a chuir air a lar, neo faodaidh camlach [sic] a bhi foidhe gu cadal air.
Location: Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sitig
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Notes: ’S dàna cù air a shitig fein. Sitig – in the sense of dunghill. Sitig – a ditch, or drain. “’S tric a bha thu cadal ann a sitigean na dùine [sic].” Sitig – in the sense of site. “Bithidh esan a siubhal na sitigean.” He goes from house to house – or from site to site (certainly did not mean from dunghill to dunghill).
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
