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7. Bùna-baca

(‘Bonnacha-bac’ in Dwelly’s.) If draughts were entering the house or rain was getting in at this low part of the roof then sacks of sand were sometimes placed at the ‘bùna-baca’. [NOTES: see the illustrations under ‘Some ropework terms’, ‘Ropework at hip with chimney’ and ‘Ropework at hip without chimney’.]

Location: [Tiree, Scarinish]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings

7. Rain

Category: Sìde / Weather

7. Rain

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

7. Rain

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather

7. Rain

Origin: Mull, Tobermory
Category: Sìde / Weather

7. Rain

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

7. Rain

Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Origin: Mull, Tobermory
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.4. Prolonged rain

Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Origin: Mull, Tobermory
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

7.5. Driving rain

Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather

[boinne]

Tha boinne air a ghaoith. – The herald of a rain storm.

Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[cuir]

Bidh i a’ cuir ann neo a’ cuir as a màireach. – expression which meant that you could expect wind or rain the next day. Not sure as regards the weather conditions of the previous night from which this judgement was made.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[dìughaidh]

“Dìughaidh uisge, fliuch sneachda.” ‘Dìughaidh’ means a different or variant type of rain in this case sleet. According to Mrs MacIsaac. “Dìughaidh teine fàrneadh fliuch” ‘Fàrneadh’ means boggy, marshy moorland. “Dìughaidh an t-saoghail gu leir, droch bhean.” The latter two instances suggest a different meaning for the word ‘dìughaidh’ – downfall? Merits further scrutiny.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[foretelling bad weather 7]

The larger the ‘buaile’ round the moon the closer rain is.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

[ruadh]

Gaoth ruadh. Tuil ruadh. Devastating wind and rain.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[tiodhlaig]

Tha la so coltach ris an là a thiodhlaig iad an Càirsealach Mór. (a day of high wind and rain from S.W.)

Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[uisge]

Ri uisge is ri gaoth. Exposed to wind and rain.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[urpull]

Tha a’ mhòine air a dhol ’na h-urpuill (leis an uisge). When peat is swollen with rain. Geàrr ’na h-urpuill i – cut it big. (Cf. urpull de bhalach – a big lump of a boy.)

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

a mhacraich-shìn

a shower of rain and wind. Would pass quickly. [NOTES: corrected to ‘macraich-shìn’.]

Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

abhsadh

to cease as in a lull after a period of wind, rain.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

adag chruaidh

part of a rainbow. If seen in the west this meant it would rain from the east.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

an dile bhaite

very heavy rain.

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

aoineadh

downpouring of continous rain. “Di-haoine ghlac an t-aoineadh na bheul e.” Means that if heavy rain begins on Friday morning it will continue all day.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

a’ cruachadh

making medium-sized stacks on the banks and ‘slating’ the peats to throw off the rain, if the peats are being left on the banks for some time. Such stacks may sometimes be ‘thatched’ (air an tughadh) with turf (‘sgrathan’).

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

a’ gabhail a cotach

means that the sea will absorb all rain water. [NOTES: ‘cotach’ corrected to ‘codach’.]

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bailc

[bɑlc] Quot.: bailc uisge. Note: a heavy plump of rain.

Location: [Lewis], South Lochs, Caversta
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bailc (fem.)

Notes: squally shower of rain.

Location: Lewis, Borve
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ballt air a bheinn

rain cloud hovering above a hill.

Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

balt

[bɑɫt̪] Quot.: balt uisge. Note: a heavy plump of rain.

Location: [Lewis], South Lochs, Caversta
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

baltag

Quot.: “baltag uisge”. Note: a heavy plump of rain.

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

beithir

fork lightning, combined with rain. Could this be used also of an electric shower?

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

bil(e)

term associated with constructing cornstacks. As you prepare to taper off towards the top, a special layer of sheaves are laid right round the stack so that they protrude about six inches out from the stack. This allows the rain to run off. “Bil(e) a’ mhullain.”

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boinealaich

drops of rain in the wind. Tha boinealaich ann.

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

boinne taig

Notes: persistent drop of rain. Also used in an erotic sense of fluid appearing from penis in state of sexual arousal.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boinne taige

pitter patter, e.g. of drops of rain.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boinne-taige

Quot.: “Tha boinne-taig’ aice.” Note: said if one felt a few drops of rain. Also used for sweat. “Tha boinne-taige dheth le fallus.” or “Tha boinne-taige fon an t-sròin aige gun abhsadh” – drip at the end of his nose.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boinneagraich

[bonʹɑɡɾiç] Quot.: boinneagraich uisge. Note: light drops of rain.

Origin: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boinnealaich

[bonʹɑɫiç] Notes: drops of rain.

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

brachadh

drying in the wind and rain.

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

breacadh a’ runnaich

scaly appearance of the clouds indicating rain. Usually seen in the evening. Like a mackerel’s back.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

buaile (f)

fiughair ri uisge. The larger the halo is, the sooner rain can be expected.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

buirseach

Notes: (Uist word) regular downpour of incessant rain.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bùtarras

a change in weather conditions bringing storm and rain. “Tha bùtarras orra a nochd.”

Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

carbad

Quotation: casan-coirpte. Notes: shafts of light under the sun – indicates rain – usually at sunrise.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casan cainnaba

an indication of bad weather. Took the form of rays descending from the rain clouds and going past through the sun.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casan cainnbe

if the rays pointed down from the sun this indicated rain. If on the other hand they pointed upwards, strong winds would follow.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casan-cailbean

[kɑsəṉkɛlɛbɑ̃ṉ] Quot.: Tha casan-cailbean fon a ghréin. Note: spokes like cartwheel spokes radiating from the sun. Rain to come.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casan-coirpte

Notes: shafts of light under the sun – indicates rain – usually at sunrise.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceann-cuilg

Notes: a temporary top of hay put on a haystack in a hurry – if rain comes. Also applies to corn.

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

ceann-snaidhm

Note: a cloud formation usually above the horizon. Strips of cloud coming together at one focal point. Could expect rain from this direction.

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

ceòban

Notes: fine rain, drizzle.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cifeir

Quotation: cifeir uisge. Notes: drizzly rain.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciorrach min

fine rain.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciubhrach

[cu̟rɔx] Quotation: ciubhrach uisge. Notes: fine drizzly rain.

Origin: Tiree?
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciuchar

Quotation: ciuchar uisge. Notes: fine rain.

Location: Skye, Strath
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciuchar

Quotation: ciuchar uisge. Notes: fine rain, drizzle.

Location: Skye, Broadford
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciurachan

light misty rain. Ciurachan uisge.

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

ciurrach

a light shower of rain.

Origin: Uibhist a Tuath [North Uist]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciutharan

light rain. (Same word [as ciurachan above? not clear], spelling corruption.) Of a more heavier nature but ciùin [sic] – it may have developed from ciùin.

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

ciutharanaich

[cu̟həɾɑ̃ṉiç] Notes: fine rain.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ciutharanaich

[ˈcu̟həɾɑṉiç] Note: very fine, drizzly rain.

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

clach-bhoinne

Notes: lingering drops of rain at close of heavy shower.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

coirbte

Quotation: casan-coirpte. Notes: shafts of light under the sun, usually at sunrise – indicates rain.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

coltach

Quotation: Tha e coltach ris an uisg. Notes: “It looks as if it is going to rain.”

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

craobh

Quot.: “Tha a chraobh aice.” Note: cloud formation like a tree seen in the southern sky in the early morning. Strong south wind with rain following.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cruach stéidhidh

a very big heap of peats with the outside layer carefully built, one peat overlapping another like slates of a house, to ward off the rain. When a year’s supply is carted home, it is finished off in this manner, although some people favour the ‘side on’ method of ‘stéidheadh’, e.g.

Location: Cinntire, An Ceann a Deas [Kintyre, Southend by Campbeltown]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

cuibhteachadh

“Cha robh sinn air cuibhteachadh ris an tigh nuair a thàinig an t-uisge.” – Hadn’t got clear of the house when the rain came on.

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

cuir-bhiodag

[ku̜ɾvid̪ɑɡ] Quotation: Chaneil mi dol a mach tuilleadh ged a bhiodh cuir-bhiodag ann. Notes: weather – talking about taking the calves in from the cold wind and rain.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuirich

light rain, usually with mist.

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

dean

plump of rain. “Nach i rinn an dean uisge.” [NOTES: corrected to ‘deann’.]

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

deann

Quotation: Tha e a’ tighinn na dheannan. Notes: sheets of rain sweeping before the wind.

Location: Skye, Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

deann

a large plump of rain.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dearsach

associated was [sic] [with?] vast quantities of rain. “Bha an dìle ’s an dearsach ann.”

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

deàrrsach

[dʹɑ:ʴsɑx] Quotation: deàrrsach uisge. Notes: a heavy downpour of rain. Deàrrsadh na gréine. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

deàrrsach (f)

Quotation: Tha ’n deàrrsach ann an dràsda. (uisge) Notes: very heavy rain.

Location: Harris, Ardhasaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

diocla

an exceptional [sic] heavy downfall of rain.

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

drabhcail

[d̪ɾɑu̜kəl] Quot.: “drabhcail beag uisge”. Note: fine, drizzly rain. Drabhcraich also used. A’ drabhcail (verb).

Origin: Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

drabhcair

Quotation: drabhcair beag uisge. Notes: a little drizzly rain.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dìle-bhàite

unusual heavy shower. [SLIP: Unusually heavy shower of rain.]

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

dìobradh

Quotation: Chaneil dìobradh air. Notes: used of incessant rain.

Location: Raasay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dìobradh

Quotation: uisge gun (d)ìobradh. Notes: unceasing rain.

Location: Skye, Strath
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dìocladh

Notes: cessation in heavy rain – short break; a short, dry interval between showers.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fir chlisne

northern lights. When seen bad weather was expected – wind, rain or snow.

Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fliona

Notes: what you see coming from the sky. Mixture of snow and rain.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fras-uisge

shower of rain.

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

fuaradh froise

strong gusts of wind prior to heavy shower of rain. Usually experienced from mid January to mid February.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fuaraich

drops of rain dripping through the thatch.

Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings

gabh

Quotation: Feumaidh sinn gabhail man a’ chruaich mas tig an uisge or Feumaidh sinn gabhail uimpe. Notes: We’ll have to get the stack properly completed and secured before the rain comes.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glutach

[ɡɫu̜t̪ɑx] Notes: describing a sky full of threatening rain-clouds.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

griomhadh

covering the top of the stack with turf and having all the sides sloping so that the rain wouldn’t penetrate so much into the middle of the stack.

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

lamaisteachadh

being weather, influenced not weather-beaten or being under the weather but being out in bad weather, soaked and fighting against the wind and rain, perhaps you could say in a sense weather-beaten. Weather-beaten ‘dreach nan sion’, a mariner or a sea-farer is always referred to as when having very fresh complexion as being weather-beaten.

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

laomadh

Quotation: Tha ’m buntàta air laomadh. Notes: used of any crop that has fallen with wind and/or rain.

Location: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

latha milleteach fuar

a cold wintry day characterised by sleet and rain. [NOTES: note added above ‘milleteach’ – meilideach.]

Location: South Uist, Lochcarnan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lion an daiman allaidh

usually seen in the late afternoon. A pattern of light lines is visible on the grass. Indicative of rain to follow.

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ludair

[ɫu̜d̪əɾ] Notes: stir up, mix up liquid. Also “Fhuair e ludradh” – he got a severe shaking or said of a person who came home very wet, caught in a very heavy shower of rain.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

meabain

urchin or a wet untidy fellow. Tha thu air do mheabaineachadh – like somebody who has been out in the rain.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

meall

for a shower of rain.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

milisteach

applied to a day in which you had rain, wind and sleet.

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

moine chruaidh dhubh

heavy type of peat; very good for heat, but inclined to crumble during dry [sic] process if exposed to sun and rain.

Location: North Uist, Grimsay
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

muthachd

grass or corn that had absorbed too much rain water thereby rendering it of inferior quality. Would not be eaten by cows.

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

pillean

a discarded item of clothing left to rot outside in the rain.

Location: South Uist, Stoneybridge
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

plom

Quotation: plom uisge. Notes: a plump of rain.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

pùireadh

Quotation: Tha e a’ pùireadh uisge. Notes: it is pouring rain (local).

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

raonabal

rain-bow.

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

ri mir an uisge

at the height of the rain.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ri mir an uisge

in the height of the rain.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ruaig

a shower of rain.

Location: Ross-shire, Muir-of-Ord
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ròsaid

a resin obtained from trees and put on wool. Prevented lice and rain penetrating the skin.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

rùdhadh

setting the peats up on end in groups of five or six, with one peat flat over the top of the others, like a ‘crom-lech’ to ward off the rain, a kind of cap. Each group is a ‘rùdhan’. This is called ‘fittin’’ the peats in Kintyre. A lady from Shetland visiting recently used this term fittin’ – probably from ‘footing’.

Location: Cinntire, An Ceann a Deas [Kintyre, Southend by Campbeltown]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

sadruich

Quot.: “Tha sadruich uisge ann.” Note: short passing showers of fine rain blown by the wind.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgadan malcaidh

herring de-scaled through excessive contact with rain or seawater in hold.

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

sgarrach

[sɡɑrɑx] Notes: half snow, half rain.

Location: Canada, Christmas Island
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgiansgaradh

threatening overhead conditions with rain clouds about to break.

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgiathachadh

Quot.: “Tha sgiathachadh turaidh ann.” Note: rain progressively lessening to no rain at all.

Origin: [Caversta]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgoid

Quot.: “a’ dol fo sgòid [sic] umbrella, na rud sam bith”. Note: sheltering from rain.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgàth fhras

a brief shower of rain lasting for a few minutes only.

Location: North Uist, Sollas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgàth-fhras

very mild form of a shower of rain.

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

siacladh

[ʃıɑkɫəɣ] Quot.: “Tha e a’ deanamh siacladh an dràsda.” Note: a semi-dry interval in a period of rain.

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

sian

Quotation: siantan de dh’uisge. Notes: sheets of driving rain.

Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sian

[ʃĩɤ̃ṉ] Note: very fine, drizzly rain.

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

sian-gréinidh

Note: a very light warm shower of rain falling with the sun out at the same time.

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

slinnteach

Note: very wet sleet tending to a mixture of sleet and rain.

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

slinnteach

Quot.: “slinnteach shneachd”. Note: mixture of snow and rain.

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slip-slap

as of a person soaked in the rain. Bha slip-slap aig air an làr. – his boots full of water making sound immitable [sic]: slip-slap.

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

slipean

a drenched person. Tha e ’na shilpean [sic]. – he is drenched in the rain.

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

smugradh

fine rain.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

smùchan uisge

a drizzle of rain.

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

snidhe dudh

[sic] mix[ture] of soot and rain in roof.

Location: Harris, Leverburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

speucaidhean

Easing-off of rain, and clearing up (airson greiseagan).

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

spràidhe

a spray or hail of rain.

Location: South Uist, Milton
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spùt

Quotation: spùt uisge. Notes: torrential rain.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stac

[st̪ɑxk] Notes: made up of several “adagan” when rain was imminent.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

starsach

Notes: piece of wood sloping out under the door to keep out the rain.

Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiapan

Quotation: stiapan/stèapan a’ bhùirn. Notes: (Cnoc Ard, Ness) Streaks of foam on sea, presaging rain. Dw. has stèapan ‘candle-wick’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

suraladh

a word which is used in the context of weather forecasting. Would be heard as “Chan eil suraladh orra an diugh ach uisge is gaoth.” Therefore the translation would be “Nothing can be expected today but wind and rain.”

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

suraladh

Quotation: Chan e suraladh a th’oirre ach a’ bhùirseach. Notes: (Uist word) bright, sunny interval in bad showery weather – or permanent clearing of the rain.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tarraing

Quot.: “Tha i a’ tarraing oirre.” Note: The clouds are gathering – it’s going to rain.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tarraing air a’ mhuir

the roaring of the sea with a white foamy surface. Signified wind after rain.

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

thaiseadh

storm. Fhuair iad thaiseadh oirre. [sic] (storm and rain) (Perhaps from tais.) [SLIP: Rain-filled storm.]

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

tighinn-fodha

Note: water coming up through the floor of a blackhouse due to very heavy rain running down the walls.

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

tuil

heavy downfall of rain. Thig tuil ort, terms [sic].

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

tòit

[t̪ɔ:tʹ] Quot.: “tòit uisge”. Note: misty rain.

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

tòit

Quot.: tòit uisge. Note: misty rain.

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tùghadh

thatch used to keep the rain off haystacks. [NOTES: corrected to ‘tughadh’.]

Origin: Na Hearadh [Harris]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

uar

landslide; or torrent of rain causing it (Reay, Sutherland).

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

uisg

Quotation: Tha e coltach ris an uisg. Notes: “It looks as if it is going to rain.”

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

uisge

Quotation: ceòbanach uisge. Notes: drizzle rain.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

uisge

Quotation: cifeir uisge. Notes: drizzly rain.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

uisge-mìn

light rain. (Both [ciurachan and uisge-mìn] more nearer the misty or vapour ‘character’.)

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

uisge-trom

heavy rain.

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

àlaisd

a deluge of rain.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

’Se deagh mharaiche a bha ’sa chorca bheag

rain would not delay the crop’s progress.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

“tha i bagarrach”

threatening to rain.

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather