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Ledi, Tìneag

using cow’s name [to call it].

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

Mac ’ic Iain

“Rinn e Mac ’ic Iain dheth fhéin.” – Mhill e e fhéin, ann an dòigh sam bith. Rinn e amadan dheth fhéin. Rinn e call dha fhéin. ’S mar sin. Tha mi cinnteach gu bheil i seo anns a h-uile h-àit.

Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[bruich]

Bruich, bruich, bruich, Cuid a leanabh bhig, Leanabh beag a call a chèile ’sa chuid fhein a bruich. A little rhyme said whilst the child’s food was cooking.

Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[bòil]

Chuir iad bhòil. – Bhuannaich iad seachd geamannan as déidh a cheile gun call.

Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[call]

Fhuair mi am peann a bha air chall. – I found the missing pen.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[call]

Fhuair mi am peann a bha air chall. – I found the pen which was lost (temporarily).

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[call]

’Ga chall fhéin. “Bha Tormod a’ cumail ris glé mhath agus glé chuimhneach gu ruige seo, ach tha e a nise air tòiseachadh ’ga chall fhéin.”

Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[cur]

A’ cur air a’ chloich – putting the stone. A’ cur air an dòrnaig – putting the stone. Tha a’ muir a’ cur orm. – I am sea-sick. A’ cur an eòrna – sowing barley. A’ cur an t-sneachd – snowing. A’ cur thairis – overflowing. A’ cur nan cleas dheth [dhith? – unclear] – gambolling. A’ cur bhuaidhe – relieving himself (call of nature). A’ cur a mach – vomiting.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[gàireachdaich]

A’ call a chiall a’ gàireachdaich. – Splitting his sides laughing.

Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[hu̜i:dʹʒ]

Notes: call to ducks (repeated).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[prɔkʹ]

[call to a] horse (to come to you). [NOTES: the slip has [prɔˈki].]

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

[pɾi:jo:]

Notes: call for cattle.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[pɾi:veɡ]

Notes: call to a calf.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[pɾi:ʃo]

Notes: call to a horse.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[sluichd]

13. Ann an oisean na SLUICHD, taobh nan clach bha toll duint le sop. Nuair a bhitis an amhrus gun robh a’ mhuileann a’ call an t-sil, chuireadh am muillear a ghairdean troimh ’n toll a’ dh’fhiachainn ceann an ROTH. Mur an robh air ceann an ROTH ach dudan bha a chuis ceart, ach ma bha gran air ceann an ROTH bha a’ mhuilean am feum air a CUBADH.

Location: [Lewis], Leurbost
Category: Muileann Lochlannach / Norse Mill

[tòir]

Thig mi air do thòir aig aon uair. – I shall call for you at 1pm.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[tʹu̜k, tʹu̜k]

[call to] hens.

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

[wit]

[call to a] duck.

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

[ɡɔs]

Notes: call to a dog (old usage).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[ɡʹu̟s]

Notes: call to a pig (repeated).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[ʃi:d̪ɑx]

Notes: call to cats (repeated).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[ˈʃi:əɫ]

Notes: call to geese (repeated).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

a’ dlìgheach

about to vomit, what we call ‘boaking’ in Scots.

Origin: Applecross [mother]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bliadhna

n. ‘year’: bhiodh tu ’ call … dhà no thrì ’n ath bh.-s’ [naflənəs]

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List

buail

Quot.: “Buaileam ort!” Note: when two people were to pick opposing teams, one would call “Buaileam ort!” The second would then say “Leigeam leat!” and the first would pick his first choice. (Two shinty teams.)

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

call

n. ‘loss’: duine sam bith air an tigeadh ~ mòr

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Mira Co., Marion Bridge
Category: Word List

call

nn ‘loss’: dh’fhaodadh e an cur air ch.

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983

call do shuim

wasting your time.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

calla

[kɑɫə] Quot.: Có am ministear dhan tug sibh calla? Note: a “call” to a congregation.

Origin: Kershader
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciora

[ciɾə] Note: motherless lamb brought up with a bottle. Also [ciɾə] [ciɾə] – call to a sheep.

Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciora ciora ciora

call addressed to lamb or sheep.

Origin: [the questionnaire gives Ross and Cromarty but it is most probably meant as the county not origin]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

ciora, ciorag

call addressed to a lamb or sheep. “Trobhad, ciorag.” “Trobhad, ciora.”

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

cioraidh

a call to summon sheep or lambs.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciosa, ciosa, ciosa

call to a lamb. Heard Kishmul Castle built on the rock Steinn was derived from ciosa-maol – enough growth there to support one hornless pet lamb.

Origin: Barra
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

cirain

a call to attract a ram’s attention. This word is repeated a number of times.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cire

Quotation: cire, cire! Notes: call to a sheep.

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Antigonish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cire, cire

call to sheep.

Origin: [Skye, Camus Chroise]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

cirean, cirean

call to lamb.

Origin: [Skye, Camus Chroise]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

ciridh

call addressed to a lamb or sheep.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

clomhan

a wooden latch on a door. Bit of wood, twelve inches or more in length placed across the the [sic] door. String attached to this and pushed through a hole in the wood. Latch could be lifted like this. Others call this a ‘gliongag’.

Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuirm

a feast. MacCodrum has ‘cuilm’. Dioscorides says that the ancestors of the Britons drank a strong liquor made of barley which they call ‘curmi’. So the word has come down to our time and whisky now so called is an ancient beverage.

Location: Killearnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cusg

(coosg) people in the village of Carishader call the artificial insemination man ‘Bodach na cusg’. I never heard the word until last summer.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

faireachdainn

Quotation: Tha mi a’ call m’ fhaireachdainn. Notes: I am forgetting myself or I’ve lost track of time.

Location: Achlyness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fheusaidh ?

see the song Ailein Duinn o hi shiublainn leat in ‘Sinclars’ [sic] [Sinclair’s?] Oranaiche, attributed to Nighean fear Scalpaigh: the song, or a line in the song says Cha b’e call a’ chruidh ’s an fheusaidh? I am wondering is it a corruption? Or should it be Cha b’e call a’ chruidh ’s a’ chéiteinn. I haven’t heard the word being used on Scalpay, and I am wondering… When you’ll get time to look it up, perhaps you may be able to have a definition for it?

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fon

(far) conj. ‘where’: shin ~ a bheil mi air call; shin ~ andeachaidh a’ mh[...] a dhèanamh; ~ a robh sinn ag obair

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List

gille

Quotation: gille pliobair [plıbiɾ]. Notes: a person who was at everybody’s beck and call.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gille-mirean

Quotation: Tha thu na do ghille-mirean aige. Notes: Spinning top. Said of someone who is being used by another, always at his beck and call.

Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gille-plibire

[ɡʹilʹəplıbıðə] Notes: a person who is at everybody’s beck and call and gets nothing in return.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glaodhaich

Notes: to shout, call.

Origin: Glenlyon
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glèidh

vb ‘win’ : fut.:~idh tu am blàr; fut. rel.: ach ma ghlèidheas mise an cogadh; cond.: bha e ‘ rith m’a chuairt airr a’ chaoraich gus an ~eadh e ‘ chaora a-mach; vbl nn: cò dhiubh ‘ bha e ‘ ~eadh no ‘ call

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983

gròcail

warning. “Bodaich a gròcail gun dean sinn call.”

Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gug-gùg

unfulfilled call, or reference. ’S fhad’ o chuala sinn a gug-gùg sin roimhe’, or that commonplace reference. [NOTES: the slip has ‘gùg-gùg’.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

huisteir

Notes: call for a horse: < O.N. hestr.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

huistir

[hıʃtʹəɾ] Quot.: Huistir, huistir! Note: call to a horse.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

huistir(e), huistir(e)

a call with the purpose of bringing horses back to the caller.

Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

keer, keer

call to a pet lamb. (Stoer, Assynt)

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

kirra (?)

call addressed to lamb or sheep when inviting it to eat.

Location: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

laoghan, laoghan, laoghan

call to a calf.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

leirsinn

[lẹ:rsinʹ] Quotation: “Bheil thu call do leirsinn?” Notes: sight.

Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

plibire

Quotation: gille-plibire. Notes: a person who is at everyone’s beck and call and gets nothing in return, a “dogsbody”.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pliobair

[plibiɾ] Notes: a person who was at everybody’s beck and call.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

poitidh

[pɔıtʹi] Note: call to a pig.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

preeleo no preebheag

[call to a cow.]

Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

profaid

n. ‘profit’: an fheadhain a bha thusa ’ call, sin a’ ph. agad

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List

pruch

call to a cow. (Urq.)

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pruchag!

Notes: a call to a pony.

Location: Skye, Strath
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

prug

Quotation: prug, prug! Notes: call to a calf. (Also prugan.)

Origin: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

prugan

[pɾu̟ɡɑṉ] Quotation: prugan, prugan! Notes: call to a calf. (Prug also used.)

Origin: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pruidh (

[pron.] prooee) [prui] call to cow. [NOTES: phonetic transcription added most probably by the fieldworker. The slip has [pruˈi].]

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

pruidh-dhé

[call] to a calf. (Urq.)

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pruidh-dhé

This was the call for a calf. The ‘ui’ is the same as ‘ui’ in ‘suidhe’ (sitting) and the ‘dhé’ same as ‘dhé’ in the genitive of God.

Origin: Inverness-shire, Nethy Bridge
Category: Crodh / Cattle

pruidh-eidh ( prooee-ay)

[pron.] call to calf. [NOTES: the slip gives the pronunciation: [pruiˈɛ̜:].]

Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle

saogan

call to a calf.

Origin: [Skye, Camus Chroise]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

sgal-crìche

a last resort call, or last report call.

Location: [Harris], Scalpaigh [Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

shoocan no shoocan beag

calf call.

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

siog

[ʃiɔɡ] Quotation: [ʃiɔɡ]!, [ʃiɔɡ]! Notes: call to a calf.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siogan

[ʃiɔɡɑṉ] Note: call to cattle in general.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siug

[ʃu̟ɡ] Quotation: siug, siug! siugan! Notes: call to a calf.

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Antigonish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siug

[ʃu̟ɡ] Note: call to a calf.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siugan

a call to a calf.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siugan

[ʃu̟ɡɑ̃ṉ] Quotation: siug, siug! siugan! Notes: call to a calf.

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Antigonish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spidein

skimming stones across a stretch of water. Others call this ‘struitairachd’.

Origin: Glasgow/South Uist? or South Uist, Kildonan or South Uist, Garrynamonie or South Uist or Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spliongag

sling (we call it). Also crann-tabhuill in other places.

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spoth an tairbh

skimming stones across a stretch of water. Others call this ‘struitairachd’.

Origin: Glasgow/South Uist? or South Uist, Kildonan or South Uist, Garrynamonie or South Uist or Skye, Bernisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

staoig-an-amadain

[st̪w:ɡʹən̪ɑməd̪ɑ̃nʹ] Note: cartilaginous piece in the breast of sheep between the ribs. (Some call it “slig’-an-amadain”.)

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiadhag

[ʃtʹiɑɑɡ] Note: call to a cat.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

streighleag

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

stìdeag

Notes: The name of Crawford’s cat, which he usually had in school with him. Crawford was the Keose (Cnoc Ian Duibh?) schoolmaster in the time of Rev. Reid – married Reid’s niece. He came from about Forres, and was a Gaelic speaker. Dwelly has stidean ‘cat; call for a cat (Badenoch)’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sugan beag

ri loagh [sic] [call to a calf].

Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

suil

The Raven’s call: Suil caora, suil caora / Càite, càite / ’Sa làthaich ’sa làthaich

Origin: Barra
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

taorais

stop call to a cow.

Origin: [Skye, Camus Chroise]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

tiug, tiug

[tʹʃu̜k, tʹʃu̜k] Notes: call to hens.

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

torchan!

interjection (call-name) for a bull. [SLIP: Used when calling for a bull.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

trobhad, trobhad, trobhad

call to a cow.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

àth

Quotation: “Bath m’ath’s bhathainn’s i nam bu t-ath’s i.” Notes: supposed to be a test of strangers: if he thought you were talking double-Dutch, he evidently had no Gaelic. It was meant to be said as one long word, which a man used to call for help from his neighbour when his KILN was on fire.

Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

èigh

vb ‘call': past: dh'~ [je:v] ad an duine seo

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983

‘ciorrag bheag’

[call to a lamb or sheep] or sometimes imitating the bleat, e.g. ‘maa bheag’.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

“trobhad, piatan, piatan, piatan beag”

call to a calf.

Origin: Leodhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Crodh / Cattle

“trobhad, siugan, siugan, siugan beag”

call to a cow.

Origin: Leodhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Crodh / Cattle