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[breacag nan

[?] eorna] “Breacag nan [?] eorna nach eil solar na fallain.” Part of a New Year duan – the thin barley bannock was not appreciated. They would accept anything except that!

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink

[sgaothbhag (sic)]

[a small shoal?] Caoirnean ag cliuchadh [sic] or sgaothbhag. [NOTES: not clear what is meant here – is ‘sgaothbhag’ meant to be a synonym of ‘caoirnean’? See ‘sgaothag thana’ on the following page meaning ‘a thin shoal’.]

Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Iasgach an Sgadain / Herring-Fishing

acuinn mheadhon

Notes: part of the spinning wheel. It was tied by a thin piece of wood to the “siol-choiseadh”.

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

an corr-fhad ( corr’ad)

[pron.] the outermost peat of a ‘carcaill’ [q.v.] cut thick (esp. in ‘mòine dhubh’ [q.v.] because it has already undergone a year of weathering and tends to crumble if cut thin).

Origin: Leódhas, An Rudha [Lewis, Rudha]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

aparan

Notes: the thin leaf next to the keel, lying on top of it.

Location: Skye, Glasnakille
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

balgan

Notes: sack made from dried skin, two skins sewn together. Sometimes two long thin bags were carried on the shoulders to balance.

Origin: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biadhtachan

[bıɤt̪ɑxɑṉ] Note: a small thin stick, like a lollipop stick, used for pulling threads through the spaces in the reed of a loom.

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorchnaidh

a thin, scrawny person.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bochd

thin.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle

bodach-ròcais

tall, thin person.

Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

brochan

Notes: made from steeped oatmeal, boiled with milk. A thin mixture.

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brog

Notes: awl, shaped like a very thin chisel.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

buntàta

Quotation: Buntàt’ a Mhadaidh Ruaidh. Notes: a red and yellow spot which grows usually where a stone breaks the surface of the ground. Grows in this thin layer of earth. (Also Buntàta nan Creag.)

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

buntàta

Quotation: buntàta nan creag. Notes: a red and yellow spot which grows usually where a stone breaks the surface of the ground. Grows on this thin layer of earth. (Also called Buntàt’ a’ Mhadaidh Ruaidh.)

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bìle

a thin, long wall constructed with stones and used for drying tangles. In South Uist we have a similar word with a ‘p’ replacing the letter ‘b’.

Location: North Uist, Grèinatobht [Grenitote]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bò air thogail

a poorly, thin animal. Also in human context – “Duine a tha air thogail”.

Location: South Uist, Stilligarry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bóthaig-sheang

thin body part, torso downwards.

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

caoilteach

would be applied to a thin cow or calf. Could also be applied to humans.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caoiltear

thin male. Dé dh’fhàg thu ’n a do chaoiltear? (Harris)

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

caoiltear

thin person.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caoiltear (m)

Notes: thin person.

Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caol

thin.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle

caolag

a thin cow or female.

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

caora tinn air uan

confinement. When in the case of a sheep giving, on the point of giving birth to a lamb, it was discovered that the discharge didn’t give the elasticity necessary (uterus, etc.), thus while under this complication tea mixed with whisky and thin gruel of oatmeal also mixed with whisky, a glassful of whisky, this given successively proved successful, and the mother gave birth to a fine healthy baby lamb. In some other instances an operation was necessary, the side of the animal, or rather the appropriate place considered was cut open by a knife, an ordinary (pocket) knife, and the baby lamb was received, and of course the wound stitched. The baby lamb normal – and the operation successful, just, perhaps, like a ceserea [sic] [Caesarean?] female operation, or again as ceserea [sic] [Caesarean?] operation on a woman. This as above noted instances was observed on the island of Scalpay in Harris. F.S. [?] [P.S.?] Bha na màthraichean beò – cha do rinn e càil oirre [sic].

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants

cas

Quotation: cas circ ann an criathar. Notes: thin-legged woman with big boots.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceap

turf, cut sometimes where it is thin with some peat attached to it and cured for burning at the back of the fire to save the peats during the winter.

Origin: Lewis, Back or Lewis, Back
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

ceòlach

misty. Bha seòrsa de cheòlach ann. – referring to a thin veil of mist or drizzle.

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

cho caol ri minidh

as thin as an augaur [sic] [auger?].

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

claighd

a tall thin person.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cliobhaistear

[klwvıʃtʹɑð] Note: as above [i.e. siobal], a tall thin person.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

criathar

Quotation: cas circ ann an criathar. Notes: thin-legged woman with big boots.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cribheal

a thin bony person.

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

croighleach

Quotation: croighleach de mhart. Notes: poor, thin beast.

Location: Coll, Sorrisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuire

[ku̟ɾə] Note: the “weft” of thin willow wands in creel-making.

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

di-theallaich

Notes: thin red hot iron for making holes in sieve, etc. Source: Uist. Date: 20c.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

drinuisg

a slight, thin, pale, fragile male. From ‘dréin-uisge’, shadow from water.

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

duibheaman

Notes: long, thin black type of tangle.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

duine meadhte

thin, delicate person.

Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

duine meangach

thin person.

Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

déisneag

[dʹe:ʃnʹɑɡ] Note: a small, thin “portan”, not as rounded in the back as the ordinary one. Not as blue.

Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

eislig

Quotation: Cha robh ann dheth ach [eʃlʹiɡʹ]. Notes: A very thin, gaunt man or beast.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fartaman

[fɑʴsṯəmɑ̃ṉ] Notes: thin line which attaches a hook to the main line. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Kenmore, Fearnabeg (Shieldaig? – on one of the slips)
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

feamainn chìrean

short and thin seaweed, used to boil it for cow.

Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features

filleag (-an)

nowadays this is used in the sense of a wrapper. Also used to mean thin garments which did nothing to keep one warm.

Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

flòdradh

[flɔ:d̪ɾəɣ] Notes: a very thin layer of water perhaps lying on ice or left by the ebbing tide.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fìogoir

[fı:ɡɔɾ] Note: a small, thin lively person.

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gad

Quotation: gad beithe. Notes: rope made from thin birch wands.

Location: Ross-shire, Dornie, Morvich
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaillearach

[ɡɑ̣˖lʹɛrəx] Notes: willow; weeping willow, long thin green withies.

Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaothach

Quotation: moine ghaothaich. Notes: where there is only a thin layer of turf and peat (i.e. in an area where peat was cut before), it is almost dry when cut.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geallabhall

[ɡʹɑɫəvɑɫ] Note: name given to a fairly thin layer of peat on stony ground. Hard and dry and can be taken directly home to be burnt. Common in Uig.

Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gearradh eadar bhun is bhàrr

cutting without previous turfing, where turf is very thin or non-existent.

Location: Harris, Tarbert
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

giomalaid neo broga

a sharp, thin bit of metal attached to a wooden handle and used to make initial indentations in wood prior to the fixing of nails, screws, etc.

Location: Eriskay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glaisnig

thin, gaunt looking person.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glas

Quot.: an glas mhór. Note: part of a sheep’s stomach. Thin at one end, getting wider towards the other end.

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

gliogaid (I)

Duine mór, gliogach. Faic MacGhillfh. “a thin clumsy man”. 6' suas agus sìos [?]:

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality

gliogair

Note: a thin, bony person.

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

gliogaire

a loosely dressed tall thin person.

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

goibhneal (E)

Boirionnach caol – chan ann cho caol ri ‘raod’ [q.v.] agus ‘sgriot’ [q.v.] ach dìreach caol gun a bhith cruinn mar boirionnach an cumantas. Agus gun a bhith ro ìosal ’na pearsa. Fuaimnich mar seo: aoi, raoir, coibhneal, goibhneal. [SLIP: A slender woman, though not as thin as ‘raod’ or ‘sgriot’ qv.]

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality

lachrann

(lamh chrann) a thin pole, used for the handle of a suisde, as a rule.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

laoisgeann

Note: membrane, very thin covering.

Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

leac-griasach

fire-slab of stone. A complete flat stone on which a fire was set in the middle of the floor in the old thatched houses, a thin slab of stone chosen (a more modern version from a former endeavour), that is the stone slab a one piece form of improvement.

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

lianranaich

a thin layer of a plant, if I may say a plant, on water, a pool, or on a shallow part of a freshwater loch. To my mind it’s something like green moss.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants

linnseag

Notes: a very thin film, e.g. healing skin on a wound.

Location: Skye, Portree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

linnseag

[lʹĩ:ʃɑɡ] Notes: a film, a thin coating.

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lua

long thin intestines.

Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

luid

Quotation: luid uisge. Notes: thin covering of water on the ground. (pl. of lod?)

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

lumag

long thin shaws – usually caused by too much manure. (Stoer, Assynt)

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

lì

[lʹı:] Note: a thin film, e.g. oil, on the surface of water.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maide-uilt

[mɑ̃dʹu̟lʹtʹ] Quotation: maidean uilt. Notes: two thin sticks used to separate threads when tying in.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maorach Moire

small thin shellfish, transparently white and smooth. Found under the sand.

Origin: Baleshare
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mart tana

a thin cow.

Origin: Mull, Bunessan, Ardtun or Mull, Tobermory
Category: Crodh / Cattle

meung

[mjəŋɡ] Notes: the thin liquid left when crowdie was made, whey.

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mòine

Quotation: mòine ghaothaich. Notes: where there is only a thin layer of turf and peat (i.e. in an area where peat was cut before), it is almost dry when it is cut.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

nasg

a thin film.

Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

piob-a-stillidh

home-made squirter (for squirting water) made from the bamboo-like stem of above [i.e. stealladair] by means of a thin stick, one end of which was wrapped with rags for use as a plunger, and a section of the stem of the stealladair as the cylinder of the squirt.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

raod (E)

Boirionnach caol – glé chaol ’n a pearsa. “Raod eagalach a th’innte.” [SLIP: A very thin woman.]

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality

seang

thin.

Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Horgabost
Category: Coltas an Duine / Personal Appearance

sgadan a losgadh

individual herring seen in the ‘burning’; a thin shoal seen in the burning; a large shoal seen in the burning.

Location: Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Iasgach an Sgadain / Herring-Fishing

sgaothag thana

a thin shoal seen in the burning.

Location: [Harris], Scalpay
Category: Iasgach an Sgadain / Herring-Fishing

sgeolldair

[sɡʹɤu̜ɫd̪əð] Note: long thin reddish jellyfish which stings. Buckie men called them “scalders”.

Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Gravir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgiobal

a thin veil of clouds which hide the sun – “A’ ghrian fo sgiobal nan nial”.

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgiofainn

a thin, diminutive, useless person. [NOTES: note added above ‘sgiofainn’ – sgifein.]

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgiol

skinny, as: Cha’n ’eil sgiol air – a term denoting thinness, slimness of a person. [NOTES: the quotation on the slip has ‘Chan eil…’ Definition: Used of a very thin person.]

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

sglùrag, sglùragan

[pl.] thin layer of cloth. Nach cuir thu dhiot na sglùragan tan’ sin or na sglùragan sin. [NOTES: quotation on the slip: Nach cuir thu dhìot na sglùragan tana sin.]

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgrath

Pl. -an. A large thin divot.

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

sgreablach

type of soil that is light and thin. Used for growing oats.

Location: North Uist, [Carinish], Cnoc Cuidhein [Knockquien]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgreafag

Quotation: Chaneil air a’ bhainne ach sgreafag uachdair. Sgreafag talmhainn. Notes: a very thin layer.

Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgriosadh

prior to cutting but after turfing a thin layer was taken off the surface so that the peat would be softer and easier to cut.

Location: South Uist, West Kilbride
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgriot (E)

An aon seòrsa ri raod [q.v.]. Faisg, faisg air co dhiu. “Sgriot eagalach a th’innte.” [SLIP: A very thin woman.]

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality

sgìmeag

[sɡʹĩ:mɑɡ] Note: a very thin layer, a film. (“Sgìmeach” also used.)

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sifeir

a tall thin man.

Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

singilte

Note: tall and thin.

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

singilte

Quotation: Nach tu tha singilte! Notes: thin.

Location: Skye, Strath
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siobal

[ʃibəɫ] Quot.: “siobal fada de dhuine”. Note: a tall thin person.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siogaisteach

[ʃiɡiʃtʹɑx] Quot.: “A’ siogaisteach aosd ud!” Note: applied to a long, thin useless type, without much backbone.

Origin: Kershader
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slabhcan

[sɫɑu̜kɑ̃ṉ] Notes: seaweed. A very thin green leaf about ¼" wide, 18" high. Made pudding with it. A bit like carrageen but green.

Location: South Uist, Eochdar, Balgarva
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slinnteach

[ʃlʹɤ̃ĩnʹtʹɑx] Note: long thin pieces of wood laid on top of the “taobhain” going from the “tobhta” to the “gath-droma”.

Location: [Lewis], S. Lochs, Lemreway
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slinnteach

[ʃlʹɤ̃ĩnʹtʹɑx] Notes: long thin pieces of wood laid on top of the taobhain going from the tobhta to the gath-droma. Source: D. MacLeod, Lemreway, Lewis. Date: 1972.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sliubhair

[ʃlʹu̜əɾ] Notes: long thin green seaweed.

Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sliuchdadh

slithering in between as a flat thin stone under a big one when building a wall. ’G sliuchdadh a stigh eadarra – between the big stones.

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

sloc buntata

long and thin since this made it easier to turf.

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sluprachan

Quot.: “sluprachan de lit”. Note: thin, badly made porridge.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

smìgleadh

a thin covering.

Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sneed; cheepick

1. Line. Consisted of 10-12 strings, 72 hooks per string. Hooks attached to main line. Every 6ft. By means of a thin, cotton string called a sneed and a horsehair cheepick both approx. 18" long.

Category: Iasgach / Fishing

snàth caol

thin thread.

Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber) or ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber dialect) or ([Canada], Inverness Co., Lochaber)
Category: Obair na Clòimhe / Wool-Working

snàthlus

a thin leaf boiled with fresh butter and wax to give it a solidified state. Used as an ointment for cuts.

Location: Eriskay, Na Hann [Haun]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

snòd

Notes: the length of thin line attaching the hook to the main line.

Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

speil

thin cut of wood. Spealg.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spliongaire

[splw̃ŋɡəðə] Notes: a tall thin man.

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

spudraisg

[spu̟d̪ɾiʃɡʹ] Quot.: “spudraisg de bhrochan, de lit”. Note: a thin, watery mixture.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sputaraich

Notes: liquid, or any thin mixture, which has been spattered about. Can also be applied to the mixture.

Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sràillean

a thin stem, wispy growth.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

steamhag

[ʃtʹɛ̃fɑɡ] Notes: cane or long thin piece of wood.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiamag

a thin layer of skin. “Stiamag de chraiceann.”

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiapan

[ʃtʹiɑpɑṉ] Note: a long thin thing, sometimes hanging from something, like a thread, etc.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiorlach

thin liquid drink such as tea.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiorraid (-each, -an)

long, thin, scraggy person.

Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiorraideach

long, thin, lanky, untidy looking person.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stirean

thin person with scraggy hair.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stragaidh

scattered amount, thin scattered evenly distributed.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

streathan

[st̪ɾɛhɑ̃ṉ] Quotation: Cha robh ann ach streathan. Notes: a very thin, weak thing, without substance.

Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie, Alltan Dubh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

streibhinn

a thin piece of skin, such as the diaphragm, or e.g. the fat on the stomach of a lean animal. “An robh tòrr geir oirr?” “Cha robh. Dìreach streibhinn bheag air a mhaodal.”

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

stràilleach

thin corn or hay.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sìlaiche

thin, puny person.

Origin: [Note: From North Uist, information from Alex O’Henley / RÓM 4 Dec 2023]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tana

thin. Sgàil thana.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tanalach

Notes: thin ice.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tias

a cooking utensil used for grilling purposes. Thin iron bars on top with fire beneath.

Location: North Uist, Iollathraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

òla losgaidh

a brown, thin ointment used to heal burns. Applied with a feather. Obtained from chemist on mainland. [NOTES: ‘òla’ corrected to ‘ola’.]

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous