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buntàta n.: ‘potato/~oes’: am buntàta [ə mə 'n̥a:tə]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, North Shore, Wreck Cove
Category: Wreck Cove, North Shore wordlist
(b) Potato cutting for seed: Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(b) Potato cutting for seed: Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(b) Potato cutting for seed: Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(b) Potato cutting for seed: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(b) Potato cutting for seed: Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(c) Potato lifting and storing: Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(c) Potato lifting and storing: Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(c) Potato lifting and storing: Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(c) Potato lifting and storing: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
(c) Potato lifting and storing: Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
4. Potato diseases: Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
4. Potato diseases: Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
4. Potato diseases: Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
4. Potato diseases: Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
4. Potato diseases: Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
[Friday]: Tradition that was kept regarding Good Friday. Whether or not the potato crop had been planted before that day it was considered that at least two or three potatoes had to be planted on that day to ensure a good crop. Similarly peats were not cut on a Friday as it was thought this might bring death to the family concerned.
Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[buntata]: Latha cur a bhuntata – potato planting day. Latha togail a bhuntata – potato lifting day.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[buntàta]: Sgiolcaidh am buntata Sgiathanach as an rusg gu barr a chroinn. The Skye potato will jump out of its skin to the mast head. (being so wet)
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[dìthainn]: Dìthainn a’ tighinn air a’ bhuntata – potato flowering. In South Uist – ‘flùr air a’ bhuntata’.
Location: North Uist, Grèinatobht [Grenitote]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[galar]: Galar a’ bhuntàta – potato disease.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[galar]: Galar a bhuntàta – potato disease.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[lair-chaib’]: In Dwelly’s this turfing spade (for houses roofs and potato pits) is called ‘caibe làir’, but in Tiree it is always known the other way round – ‘lair-chaib’’.
Location: [Tiree, Scarinish]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
[rathad-mór]: Rinn iad rathad-mór troimh an phìos bhuntàta aige. – They made a track through his potato plot.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[salting]: (salting butter – essential to use ground sea-salt, butter then put into jars and cabbage leaf put on top) (salting eels – salting eels and then hanging out to dry) (salting meat – pickle not ready until a small potato could float) (salting cod, smallag, cuideag, saoithean)
Location: Harris, Ardvey
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
a dusgadh: Easing up the potato furrow with fork or spade to make it easier for the ‘croman’. [NOTES: spelled ‘dùsgadh’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
an dúc bhuntata: the potato pit. The potatoes were arranged in this form on the field insulated with straw and covered with a thick layer of soil.
Origin: Bràigh-Lochabar [Brae Lochaber]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
an ubhla bhàn: a red and white seen on the potato leaves. Usually seen in July.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
asgairt: rubble left after main mass of peat has been carted away. This word is also used to describe inferior seed potato.
Origin: Leódhas, An Rudha [Lewis, Rudha]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
asgart: Notes: what’s left of a potato after eyes have been cut for planting. (Applecross, glaodhan)
Origin: Back
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bachallag: Notes: potato sprout.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bachallag: Note: potato shoot.
Origin: Scarista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
baraille-buntata: an old version of potato ‘measurement’ or container.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barr gùcach: potato flowering [?].
Location: North Uist, Grèinatobht [Grenitote]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barr-a-cùg: [bərəˈk̚u:kᶜ] Notes: the flower of the potato plant. Only Embo speakers know and use this word; unknown in Golspie and Brora. Source: Sandy MacKay, Hall St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.
Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barr-gùg: [bɑrəɡu̜:ɡ] Notes: potato blossom.
Origin: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barr-gùg (sic): [bɛɾəɡu̜:] Notes: potato blossom.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barra-gùg: Notes: potato blossoms.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
barran: bloom, potato bloom. Bàrran [sic] a’ bhuntàta.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodach sàbhaidh: a potato with bits of wood stuck into it. Rotated when exposed to the wind.
Location: North Uist, Tigharry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodach-sàbhaidh: made with wood and a potato. It was balanced on the edge of a shelf and made to rock backwards and forwards. A well-made one could keep going for quite a while!
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Cur-seachadan: Dèideagan, Geamaichean is Farpaisean / Recreation: Toys, Games, Contests
bodach-sàbhaidh: Note: the figure of a man, its hands stretched out in front of it holding a stick which came down at an angle and passed under its feet. A potato, for balance, was stuck on its lower end. The man then was put standing on a line and it swayed backwards and forwards without toppling.
Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bodachan-sàbhaidh: Notes: a pivotal toy, consisting of a potato which was attached to an angular piece of wood with serrated lower edge. When placed on a fulcrum, and set in motion, the bodachan-sàbhaidh (“the little old saw-man”, lit. “of sawing”) would continue to swing backwards and forwards for an indefinite period if properly balanced. This balancing was considered to be something of an art.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bogais: Potato-bug.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
brìg (f): heap; brìg bhuntàta – potato pit above ground. Pollag-bhuntàta – tattie-pit, dug out, partly underground.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntat atharnaich: last years potato.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Finsbay
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
buntata slisneach: that part of the potato used for seed.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta: Potato. Disease: rheumatism. Part used / How prepared: a potato with a slice cut off. A potato carried by the patient in an inside pocket nearest to his skin, I believe. The body seemingly responding someway to the potato? Sources of information: traditionally.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
buntàta: Quotation: tòrr buntàta. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta: Quotation: maide bhuntàta. Notes: potato masher.
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta: nn ‘potato, ~oes’ : airson bu'tàta; baraillean mu'tàta
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
buntàta: raw bits, broken into crumbs (buntàta air a phronnadh le cloich) is [sic] used as a lure for fish when fishing with a spoon-net (‘tàbh’). The mashed potato thrown above the net sinks gradually luring the fish into the net and then the net lifted with the fish inside. The fish is caught unawares so to speak.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
buntàta: Quotation: poll buntàta [p[ɤu̜]ɫbwt̪ɑ:t̪]. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta dubh: black potato.
Origin: Bràigh-Lochabar [Brae Lochaber]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
buntàta dubh: the purple skinned potato.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta geal: white potato.
Origin: Bràigh-Lochabar [Brae Lochaber]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
buntàta grod: rotten potato.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buntàta-góbhlach: Note: type of potato full of “eyes”.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buthag: Quotation: buthag bhuntàt. Notes: (Locheport usage) potato pit.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buthaman: [bu̜əmɑ̃ṉ] Quotation: am bu(th)aman. Notes: a type of potato. He explains that “Bowman” was the name of the captain of a ship that was wrecked and from which these potatoes were procured.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buthaman: bowman potatoes. So called after a ship ran aground at Paible with a cargo of this potato. The captain of the ship was called Bowman.
Location: North Uist, Iollathraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bàrr: Quotation: barrannan a’ bhuntàt. Notes: potato shoots.
Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bàrr-gùc: flower on the potato crop.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bàrr-gùg: [bɑ:rɡu̜:ɡ] Notes: blossoms growing on potato shaws.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cailleach: a partly rotten potato when planted still adhering to the shaw when new potatoes are lifted.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cailleach mharbh: Potato no longer suitable for seed.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cairrcean: Black disfigurement on potato skin.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
claoidhean: [?] part of the potato. Claodhan – sing. Plural – claodhain.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance
cnaimh: [krɛ̃:v] Notes: part of potato left unplanted.
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnaimh: Quotation: cnàmhan. Notes: part of potato which doesn’t have the eye in it.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cnamh: Potato blight.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cnamh: Potato blight.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cnamhan: Part(s) of potato(es) left after ‘eyes’ have been removed. [NOTES: spelled ‘cnàmhan’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cnap: single potato. [NOTES: the last item added in pencil.]
Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cnàimh: Quotation: cnàmhan glas [kɾɑ̃:əṉɡɫɑs]. Notes: potato patch. (1) Furrow turned with a spade, potato placed and the divot put upside down on top of it (fertiliser put in with potato). (2) Left unturned until the shaws grew. Then at the time of “togail uime” the strip left unturned was dug up and the earth put round the shaws for support.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
coileach-Frangach: A variant on the ‘golan gaoithe’ previously described by R. O’Henley. Feathers stuck into a potato and then taken outdoors and used as a spinning top. Required wind assistance. [NOTES: ‘golan’ corrected to ‘gobhlan’.]
Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
coileach-gòthan: [kɤlɑxɡɔ:ɑṉ] Notes: potato with feathers stuck in it – blown by the wind along the ground.
Location: Tiree, Caolis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
coilleach-gòthan: Notes: a potato with feathers stuck into it. This was allowed to go with the wind, and children tried to catch it.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cork geal: white oats usually the potato oat – a popular variety 50 years ago. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
crath do churrachd air: this would be said when the potato leaves looked like promising a poor crop.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
croiseag: Notes: a small potato.
Origin: Nethy Bridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
croman: Notes: potato-digging implement.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cròcan: [kɾɔ:xkɑṉ] Notes: implement used for potato digging.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cròicean: [kɾɔ:cɑṉ] Note: potato hook.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuibheall-chnò: Notes: a type of toy made from a hazel nut-shell, a potato and a piece of wood. The string was wound round the needle inside the shell, and then pulled. The momentum of the potato kept it in motion afterwards when the string was pulled lightly.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuir: Quotation: An deidh dhaibh a bhi air an gartlan bha iad a cladhach eadar na sreathan agus a’ cur ris a’ bhuntàta. Notes: building up the earth on each side of the potato shaws.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuiseag: Quotation: cuiseag a bhuntàta. Notes: potato shaw.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuiseag: Pl. cuiseagan. Potato shaws
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
cuiseag: Quotation: cuiseag bhuntàta. Notes: potato stalk, shaw.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuiseag: Notes: potato stalk.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
còsach: Quotation: buntàta còsach. Notes: a shrivelled, dried potato which has had more than its share of sun and air.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cùlaidh: Potato-cellar. [NOTES: spelled ‘cùlaid’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
dais: Potato turf-house.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
dais: Quotation: dais bhuntàt. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
dosgainn: [d̪ɔɡĩnʹ] Quot.: “A bheil dosgainn anns a’ bhuntàta?” Note: “Is there a disease in the potatoes?” This was usually asked when a potato pit was opened.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
draoileag: Very small potato.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
drilla: (f) Drillachan. Drill. Potato drill.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
drilla: (f) Drillachan. Drill. Potato drill.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
dusgadh: Easing up the potato furrow with fork or spade to make it easier for the ‘croman’. [NOTES: spelled ‘dùsgadh’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
dìthean: Quot.: dìthean a’ bhuntàta. Note: the flower on the potato shaw.
Origin: Scarista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feamainn shiabaidh: seaweed left at high tide used as potato fertiliser.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feamin dubh: the bladder and other types of seaweed which was cut with “corrans” and carried up in creels. Frequently went with boats to outlying islands to cut this ware. Always used for potato manure. Many boats lost through overloading.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
fliodh: it grows in potatoes and corn, thickly in potato lazy-beds with emerald leaves, perhaps lighter than emerald leaves with pinkish small flower. ‘Fliodh-a-bhuntàta’, given to cattle for food, not for medicinal factors, purposely.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
fracas: Quotation: “Cha tàinig càil as ach fracas.” Notes: potato plot – nothing came out of it but small potatoes, i.e. useless refuse.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
froiseag: [fɾɔʃɑɡ] Notes: a small potato. Usually used in the pl.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
froiseag: Notes: small potato.
Origin: Kinlochourn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
fuar-dhealt: Note: emphasis on “fuar”. Can be seen sometimes in the very early morning on grass and potato leaves. Says it was colder than the usual dew and if it wasn’t away before the sun rose, “bhiodh am feur agus duilleagan a’ bhuntàta air an losgadh”.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gaiseadh: Notes: blight; potato blight.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gaiseadh: potato blight.
Origin: Uibhist a Tuath [North Uist]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
galar a bhuntàta: potato disease.
Origin: Bràigh-Lochabar [Brae Lochaber]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
gath: Notes: potato sprout.
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gearradh a bhuntata: Removing eyes of potato for seed. Cutting potatoes for seed. [NOTES: ‘m’ written above ‘b’ (mhuntata). On the slip spelled: ‘gearradh a’ mhuntàta’.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhain: The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this. These were boiled and fed to cattle. [NOTES: ‘glaodhan’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhain: The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this. [NOTES: ‘glaodhan’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhain: excess potato after the useful bits were kept for seed.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaodhan: [ɡɫw:ɣɑ̃ṉ] Notes: (1) pith. (2) part of cut potato with no eye.
Location: Skye?, Braes, Baile Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaodhan: The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhan: Pl. glaodhanan. The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhan: The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhan: The part of potato left after ‘eyes’ have been removed for this.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
glaodhan: [ɡɫw:ɑ̃ṉ] Notes: portion of cut potato without the eye.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaodhan: [ɡɫw:ɑṉ] Notes: part of cut potato without the eye.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaodhan: [ɡɫw:ɑ̃ṉ] Notes: piece of potato without the eye.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaodhan: Notes: old potato, the inside of which has decayed, leaving nothing but outer skin.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
glaoghan: [ɡɫw:ɣɑṉ] Notes: part cut off potato and having no eye.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
goil: Quotation: goil chruaidh – potato still raw, goil bhog – potato ready.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
goileach-gaoith (beag): made with a small potato and strong feathers. The feathers were stuck in at all angles and it was thrown in a fairly strong wind.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig
Category: Cur-seachadan: Dèideagan, Geamaichean is Farpaisean / Recreation: Toys, Games, Contests
golan gaoithe: a potato with swan’s feathers sticking out from it. In connection with Halloween but not sure of exact role it played.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grionnas: Pit (potato) covered with earth.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
groond-buntata: potato land.
Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
grubair: [ɡɾɤbɑɾ] Notes: The “grubber”. Used to weed between potato shaws. Angle could be altered.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grìleag: Notes: a small potato.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grìleag: [ɡɾı:lʹɑɡ] Notes: a very small potato.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grìleag: [ɡɾı:lʹɑɡ] Notes: a very small potato. (Cf. Applecross grùileag.)
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
grìneas: [ɡɾĩ:ṉəs] Notes: potato-pit.
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Antigonish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gunna cnagainn (‘n’ – r sound): this was achieved by sticking the tubed part of a feather into a potato. When you pulled this out a cylinder of potato would be caught in the feather. This was then let off with the aid of a bit of wood. A toy for children.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gàrradh-buntàta: potato plot.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
inneal togail bhuntata: Potato lifter.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
maide bhuntàta: Notes: potato masher.
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
maide bhuntàta: Notes: potato masher.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
maide buntata: potato masher.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
meath: Quotation: Tha meath anns a’ bhuntàta. Notes: blank space in potato field, where seed has failed to grow.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
miodar: a small wooden vessel for holding liquids e.g. milk for a calf, miodar a’ laoigh. Also held ‘bree’ from boiled salt herring, herring bones, potato peelings etc. given to the cows.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Caoraich / Sheep
méillcheadan: chilblains. Potato cut in half and applied to soothe the burning feeling.
Location: South Uist, Smerclete
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
niodhlag/niùdhlag: [ɲj̃ũɫaɡ] [?] Quotation: niodhlagan bhuntàta carrach (from Duan Callainn – Lewis). Notes: a small potato. Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
niùlag: [nʹũ̜:ɫɑɡ] Notes: a very small potato.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plaosg: Quotation: plaoisg buntàta. Notes: potato peelings, after potatoes had been boiled in their jackets.
Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plaosg: potato-skin.
Location: Tummel and Rannoch
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ploc: Quotation: ploc buntàta. Notes: potato masher.
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plocan: Notes: wooden potato-masher.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plocan: potato masher.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plocan: Notes: potato masher.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plòitean: fibry, brown material in peat. Pockets of it are sometimes found in quite hard peat. It used to be smoked in home-made pipes by boys. The pipes were either made of potato hollowed out with a stem of ‘cuiseag’ (docken plant) or of a section from a cabbage stem (the tough part above the ground was best) with the ‘cuiseag’ stem: piob phuntàt and piob chàil.
Location: Cinntire, An Ceann a Deas [Kintyre, Southend by Campbeltown]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
polag (f), polagan (pl): potato pit. About 3' deep, 3' wide, up to 20' in length, 2' high (above ground level). Potatoes covered with layer of hay. Then covered with “ùir”. Then covered over by “sgrothan”, which had been cut with a “lair-cheab”. Better if potatoes were allowed to breathe as they sweat – toll beag no dhà mura biodh reothadh ann. Ma bha coltas reothadh ann, dh’fheumadh tu an dùnadh.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
poll: [pɤu̜ɫ] Quotation: poll buntata. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Blairmore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
poll: Quotation: poll buntàta. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
poll: Quotation: poll buntàta. Notes: potato pit. “Toll buntàta” also used.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
poll: Quotation: poll buntàta [p[ɤu̜]ɫbwt̪ɑ:t̪]. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
poll-buntàta: [pɤu̜ɫbwt̪ɑ:t̪] Notes: potato pit. In this area dug in sandy ground, like a grave.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
poll-buntàta: Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Quotation: pollag buntàta. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Coll, Ben Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Quotation: pollag buntàt. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Potato pit.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
pollag: Potato pit.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
pollag: Notes: a potato-pit.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Notes: potato pit.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Notes: potato pit. (Moidart)
Origin: Carradale area
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: [poɫɑɡ] Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Kinlochourn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pollag: Quotation: pollag bhuntàta. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pranndan: [pɾɛ̃n̪:d̪ɑ̃ṉ] Notes: crushed crab, limpet, potato for bait.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
puntàta reamhar: a big raw potato was obtained and the top cut off. This was set aside. The inside of the potato was scooped out and the bits of meat (salt.) substituted. The ‘lid’ or top of the potato was then fixed on by means of a wooden skewer. The ‘stuffed’ potato was baked in an open fire.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pìob: Quot.: “pìob buntàta”. Note: a pipe, the bowl of which was fashioned out of a potato, the stem being a length of the shaw. Used by boys for smoking “calcas”.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pòiteach: Notes: spongy (of turnip, potato, etc.).
Location: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ri: Quotation: Bha iad a cladhach eadar na sreathan agus a’ cur ris a bhuntàta. Notes: building up the earth on each side of the potato shaws.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
riseag: [riʃɑɡ] Notes: a potato too small to be planted.
Origin: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
roiseag: Notes: a small potato.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
roiseag: Notes: small potato. More commonly used in plural.
Origin: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ròd: Quotation: ròd buntàta [rɔd̪]. Notes: potato drill.
Location: Ross-shire, Dornie, Morvich
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
rùiligean: very very small potato(es), immature sizes of potatoes. Cha eil annt’ ach rùiligein.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
seargadh: when the potato leaves had withered.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
searsanach: Notes: a large potato. (Lewis)
Location: Edinburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgaoilteag: Half potato used for planting.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sgealb: Notes: part of potato planted.
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgealbadh: cutting the potato leaving an eye in each part.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sgoiltean: [sɡolʹtʹɑ̃ṉ] Notes: part of cut potato with the eye in it – for planting.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgoiltean: [sɡolʹtʹɑṉ] Notes: part of cut potato with eye in it.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgoiltean: [sɡoltʹʃɑ̃ṉ] Notes: the half of a potato with an “eye” in it. Planted.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgoiltean: Notes: the seed slice of a potato.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgoltag: Notes: half a seed potato.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgrìllig: [sɡɾı:lʹiɡʹ] Note: very small potato.
Origin: Scarista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sgònnan: a bit of wood on a dibble, on which pressure was applied when making a hole for the potato seed.
Location: South Uist, South Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
simid: [ʃĩmidʹ] Notes: potato masher, shaped like a baseball bat.
Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
simid: [ʃĩmid] Note: (1) potato masher. (2) barley beater.
Origin: Balallan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
simide: [ʃĩmidʹə] Notes: wooden potato masher.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
simide: [ʃĩmidʹə] Notes: wooden stick used for beating clothes when washing them. “Simide” used elsewhere for a potato-masher – shaped like a baseball-bat.
Location: Lewis, Borve
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
simide: [ʃĩmidʹə] Notes: potato masher.
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
siolag: Notes: small potato.
Origin: Coigach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slacan: [sɫɑkɑṉ] Note: potato-masher.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slaodach: Notes: long tangle, narrow stalk with thicker crop of seaweed growing on it. Used for potato manure.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slifeag: [ʃlʹifɑɡ] Notes: potato dibble.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
slis: Part of potato with ‘eye’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
slisnean: potato cut in two and used for seed.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sloc: Quotation: sloc bhunàta [sic]. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sloc: Quot.: sloc bhuntàta. Note: potato pit.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sloc: Quotation: sloc bhuntata. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sloc: Quot.: sloc bhuntàta. Note: potato pit.
Origin: Scarista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sloc bhuntata: Potato-pit. Made of leacan, rainneach, sgrathan, ùir. [NOTES: spelled ‘sloc-buntata’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
slochd bhunata: potato pit. To make a potato pit, preferably where oats were grown clean, according to quantity to be put in 20-30 creels for example, 9 feet long 4 ft wide and six inches deep covered with firm sods of earth termed sgrathan and covered with the surrounding earth 9 inches thick formed into a shapely mound.
Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
slòc bhuntàta: 2 feet 6 inches deep, 2 feet wide and 10 feet long. There was another potato pit in the stackyard where potatoes for domestic use were kept. This was shaped like a rooftop and was 4 feet in height and 2½ feet wide. Potatoes were built up in this rooftop shape. Thereafter threshed corn was used to cover the potatoes. This kept them dry. Finished off with a layer of turf.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
snodhach: The sprout on potato.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
snodhach: Notes: shoots from a sprouting potato.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sreathan: drills of potato.
Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
suil: ‘Eye’ of potato. [NOTES: spelled ‘sùil’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
suil: ‘Eye’ of potato. [NOTES: spelled ‘sùil’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sìlean: Note: very small potato.
Origin: Scarista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sìlean (m): Quotation: “bodach an t-sìlein agus sìlean ’na bhròig, dh’fhalbh e gu taigh caillich…” (start of a trad. bedtime story). Notes: a very small potato.
Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sìolag: Notes: small potato.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùil: ‘Eye’ of potato. [NOTES: spelled ‘sùil’ on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sùil a’ bhuntàta: ‘Eye’ of potato.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
sùil mhullaich: most prominent eye in a potato.
Location: North Uist, Iollathraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
sùileag: Note: a small potato.
Location: Lewis, Uig, Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
súil: Notes: part of potato with eye in it – sown.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
taghadh: choosing which potatoes to eat and those to be used for seed potatoes next year. Potato needs 2 eyes to be used for seed purposes. Some of larger potatoes cut up and given to sheep. No name provided for this process.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
talamh “butata”: potato field. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tigh a bhuntata: Potato hut/shed. [NOTES: spelled ‘taigh a’ bhuntàta on the slip.]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tobhar geamhraidh: best for potato fertiliser.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
todhar geamhraidh: used as potato fertiliser.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tog: Quotation: Tha ’n am againn a dhol a thogail uime. Notes: hoeing, i.e. building up the earth on each side of the potato shaws.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tog: Quotation: Tha mi a dol a thogail uime. Na thog thu man a bhuntàta? Notes: building up on either side of the potato shaws with earth.
Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
togail a’ bhuntàta: [potato lifting.]
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
toll: Quotation: Toll buntàta. Notes: Potato pit. “Poll buntàta” also used.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
toll: Quotation: toll buntàta [t̪ɤu̜ɫ bwṉɑ:t̪ə]. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
toll: Quotation: toll bhuntàta. Notes: potato pit.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
toll / tolla-buntàta: Potato-pit.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tughadh: Covering of potato-pit.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
tòrr: Quotation: tòrr buntata. Notes: potato pit.
Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tòrr: Quotation: tòrr buntàta. Notes: potato pit. (Glendale, Skye.)
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
tòrr: Quotation: tòrr buntàta. Notes: potato pit. (Bracken put on top of the potatoes, then a covering of earth.)
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ubhla-bhan: the potato flower.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
uime: Quotation: Tha ’n am againn a dhol a thogail uime. Notes: hoeing, i.e. building up the earth on each side of the potato shaws.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

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