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Arran Banner
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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Arran Chief
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Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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Innse-Gall
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Orkney and Shetland Islands (since 13th century); not a fixed place-name, but a descriptive term, the extent of which varied as the power of the Norse waxed or waned. At height of Norse power, Innse-Gall = all islands from Shetlands to the Isle of Man; after Somhairle Mac Giolla Bride’s first victory Innse Gall = islands north of Ardnamurchan; after Somhairle’s 2nd victory Innse Gall = Orkneys and Shetlands only. NE Highl. C. S. – Innse Gall but more commonly Innsean Gallach, Eileana [?] Gallach = Orkney, Shetland. Innse Gaidheal(ach) – Western Isles (Lewis to Islay) + Arran, Bute. Innse-Gall not applied to any Gaelic-speaking islands. Bardic usage: Innse Gall = Western Isles (Lewis to Islay) regardless of fact that they had ceased to be Innse-Gall in 13th century and had become Gaelic. As long as the Bards had comharda, uaithne, uaim, and the other obair-ghréis of their trade, they didn’t bother about truth. Modern literary, artificial – imitation of Bardic usage, above. Incorrect.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[catrach]
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catrach math gaoithe – strong wind (Arran, Bute, Cowal, Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[couping cart]
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(No couping carts in Arran.)
Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
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arran cork
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oatcakes. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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arran eorna
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barley scones. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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arran floor
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scones. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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balt
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man’s collar (Arran, S.W.).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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beilc
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big belly, as cow (N.E.); peilc (Arran, S.W. gen.), peilicean (Uist). ? seemed in Perths to be a variant of builg, gen. of bolg – a bag, etc.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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breas
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mantelpiece. (Jura, Arran)
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bulla (n)
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a ball (N.E. and Perthshire); pulla, pullag (Arran and S.W. gen.).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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drais
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a fit (Arran, S. Argyll).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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iasg bruich agus sauis (sabhs)
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boiled fish with the water the fish was boiled in. This latter was usually taken before going to bed. Iasg bruich agus sauis (sabhs) le arran cork. (Stoer, Assynt)
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink
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ingheilt
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Notes: (Keose) grazing or pasture. Not in Dw. Dwelly gives inghilt as obsolete, ref. to ingilt and inilt (Armstrong), ‘feeding, grazing, pasture’. The word leasair used in Arran for cattle-grazings, according to my Uncle Angie, who lived most of his life there.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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obair
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Quotation: Robh obair trom [opər trom] anns a’ speal. Notes: masculine in Arran Gaelic.
Location: Arran, Pirnmill
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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richeanach
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ragnails, ragged skin at base of finger-nails (N.E.); rifeineach (Uist); righinneach (Arran, Kintyre, etc.). Slender “ch” commonly reduced to gh.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sgrìosan
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[sɡɾi:sɑṉ] Quotation: Ma tha ise a’ pòsadh bithidh a’ sgrìosan aice a nis. Notes: trousseau. (Dw. – sgriosan – Arran.)
Origin: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
