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(b) diseases of the head and neck

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

(b) diseases of the head and neck

Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle

(b) diseases of the head, neck and throat

Origin: Tiree
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

Diseases of the mouth, neck and throat

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

[amhach]

Chaidh e bharr na h-amhach. – Broke his neck. Chaidh e bharr neog dearg na h-amhach.

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

[cnàimh]

Ge b’oil le cnaimh ruadh na h-amhaich agam. – In spite of the red bone of my neck.

Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[oil]

Ge b’oil le d’amhaich e. In spite of your neck.

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

acfhuinn

neck rope.

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

achdainn

neck rope.

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

am broillein

swelling on neck or in stomach.

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

am plochd

fluke (neck swelling).

Origin: Ross of Mull
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

amairt

stiff neck after sleep.

Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

amhach

neck.

Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Victoria Co.)
Category: Crodh / Cattle

amhach

neck.

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

amhaich

[ɔ̃ıç] Notes: neck.

Location: Sutherland, Portskerra
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

amhaich

[ɑ˖wʔɪç] Notes: the neck.

Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

amhaich

[neck.]

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

amhaich

neck.

Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

amhaich

neck.

Origin: Geàrrloch [Gairloch]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

amhaich air amhaich

neck to neck (still in use, Scalpay).

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

an ceangal aice

rope round neck in stall.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Crodh / Cattle

an ceann agus am muinneil

the head and neck.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

an ceann agus am muinneil

the head and neck.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

bloc

[blɔxk] Quotation: am bloc. Notes: a square block of wood, hanging from a rope which went round the horse’s neck. The rope passed through a ring attached to a post. It allowed a limited freedom of movement.

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

botrachan

the stick under a horse’s tail with ropes to the saddle to keep it from slipping over the horse’s neck.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brangas

[brɑnɡəs] Notes: Tiree form of a halter made of oak with rope above and below the nose and across the back of the neck. Source: Tiree. Date: 08/1967.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

broighdean

[bɾɤıdʹə̃ṉ] [?] Notes: part of a tether. The loop round the beast’s neck.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brèidean

rope placed round the neck of a cow or a sheep.

Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

buaban

[bu̜ɤbɑṉ] Notes: a device to prevent sheep from attempting to jump dykes or fences. A stick hung horizontally in front of the sheep’s legs, from a rope tied round its neck. If it attempted to jump, its front legs hit the stick.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

camairt

[kɑ̃məʴsṯ] Quotation: Tha camairt orm fhéin. Notes: I have a stiff neck on one side. [NOTES: slipped under ‘camart’.] [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

camard

Quotation: Bha ’n camard air. Notes: a stiff neck, perhaps from sleeping in an awkward position. [NOTES: slipped under ‘camart’.]

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

camard

crink in the neck in the morning.

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

camard

[kɑ̃mɑʴḏ] Quotation: Tha ’n camard orm. Notes: stiff neck. [NOTES: slipped under ‘camart’.] [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caora chùlanach

sheep with black wool round the neck like a black collar (nothing to do with disease, just as a matter of interest).

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

carran creige

rock cod. Noted by having sign of the cross on the back of its neck.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cas-bheag

one of [a dog’s – crossed out] forelegs being tied inches from the ground with a string round its neck. [SLIP: Where one of the forelegs of a dog is tied inches from the ground with a piece of string around the dog’s neck.]

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

cas-bheag

Quotation: a’ cur cas-bheag air cù. Notes: putting a rope round a dog’s neck with a loop hanging down. Through this loop is put one of the front paws. Restricts freedom of movement.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cas-bheag

Quot.: “a’ cur cas-bheag air cù”. Note: one of a dog’s front paws in a sling hanging from its neck. To prevent it from straying too far.

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cas-bheag

Quotation: a’ cuir cas-bheag air cú. Notes: lifting one of a dog’s fore-paws off the ground by attaching one end of a piece of string to it and the other round its neck. A hobble.

Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cas-bheag

Notes: dog’s leg which has been caught in a rope round its neck to prevent it from running.

Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casa-góbhlagan

Quotation: Thoir dhomh casa-góbhlagan. Notes: carrying someone astraddle on one’s neck and shoulders.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

casan cuinnaig

carrying someone, usually a youngster, high on your shoulders with the youngster sitting behind your neck with his legs in front of you.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ceangail

neck rope.

Origin: [Arran]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

ceangal

[neck rope?]

Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle

ceann as muineal

[head and neck.]

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

clupaid

Quotation: a’ chlupaid [əxɫu̜ʰpidʹʒ]. Notes: swelling of the neck in sheep and cattle (liver fluke?).

Location: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clupaid

Quotation: a’ chlupaid [əxɫu̜ʰpidʹʒ]. Notes: swelling of the neck in sheep and cattle (liver fluke?).

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clupaid

Quotation: a’ chlupaid [əxɫu̜ʰpidʹʒ]. Notes: swelling of the neck in sheep and cattle (liver fluke?).

Origin: Islay, Ballygrant
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

clupaid

Quotation: a’ chlupaid [əxɫu̜ʰpidʹʒ]. Notes: swelling of the neck in sheep and cattle (liver fluke?).

Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cnaimh-golaigein

a child on the shoulders of his father, sitting with a foot on either side of his father’s neck, and the father having the hands of his son or daughter holding them above his head. Also termed ‘casa-golaigein’. In other words the father’s head between his son’s or daughter’s feet.

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

coilair

placed round the neck.

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

crot

[kɾõt̪] Notes: lump, lump or boil on the back of one’s neck.

Origin: Bunloit
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cùl

Quotation: cùl a’ mhuineal. Notes: the back of the neck.

Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cùl-acdhainn

[sic] ceangailt mun an stiall. Tied around the headpost, to which again was tied smeathag, which was tied around the cow’s neck by cnac (toggle) and drula (loop).

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

cùlan

black wool round a sheep’s neck (nothing to do with disease, just as a matter of interest).

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

cùlan

[ku̜:ɫɑṉ] Quot.: “caora le cùlan oirre”. Note: black patch or collar on sheep on the back of the neck.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

diseases of the head, neck and throat

Origin: Barra
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

drumag

this was a bigger load than above [i.e. sgùird] – the apron was filled and worn behind with the two bottom corners pinned or knotted at the neck. Had to be stronger and bigger than these of the present day (the aprons).

Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

dòrnan

Note: the piece of rope round the “stiall” [q.v.] in the byre, for tying cattle. (“Smidheag” [q.v.] – the part round the beast’s neck.)

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

easlainte-cham

Note: malady in cattle involving a twist in the neck. Blood let for this.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

easlainte-cham

Quot.: an easlainte-cham. Note: disease in cattle and sheep causing a twist in the neck.

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

fail

Quotation: a’ faileadh muic. Notes: a pig was killed by knifing it below the neck and allowing it to run round until the blood drained from it. It was then covered with straw and boiling water poured over it, then shaved.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

flèiteach

[flɛ:tʹɑx] Note: rope round a cow’s neck when tethered.

Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fàileid

[fɑ:lɑdʹ] Quot.: “Nach ann air a bha a’ fàileid.” Note: “brass neck”. Same as “Nach ann air a bha a’ bhathais”.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geoic (-e, -ean)

a wry neck.

Location: Barra, Glen
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

geòc

Notes: yoke. A piece of wood put round a horse’s neck to prevent it from jumping fences.

Location: Canada, Christmas Island
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glacaich

Quot.: “na glacaichean-cléibh”. Note: something out of position round about the collarbone. Put right by placing one hand under the person’s chin, the other behind his head, just above the neck and thus lifting him off his feet.

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

goic

[ɡɔıc] Quot.: Rug mi air ghoic amhaich air. Note: on the back of the neck.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

goradaireachd

Quot.: Dé a’ ghoradaireachd a th’ort? Note: looking with neck outstretched.

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

gràbhat

a fisherman’s neck scarf. Gràbhat beag lìn.

Origin: [Kintyre, Tarbert]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lacha choilaireach

a duck with a white ring round its neck.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

luirgichean

[ɫuirɡiçɑn] Notes: the rope between the wall fastening and the halter round the cow’s neck. There was a swivel between it and the halter.

Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maide-mairt

Notes: wooden arrangement for tying Highland cattle – a V-shaped piece of wood below the neck and a V-shaped piece coming down from above to lock the head and horns in.

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

meall-amhaich

[mjɑ̃ũ̜ɫõiç] Notes: a boil on the neck. Plural [mĩ:lʹõiç].

Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

muineal

neck.

Category: Crodh / Cattle

muineal

Notes: neck (see amhach). Cùl a mhuineal – the back of the neck.

Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

muineil

[neck.]

Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Caoraich / Sheep

nasg

Notes: rope round a cow’s neck in stall.

Location: Sutherland, Durness, Laide, Portnacon
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

nasg

Notes: neck-rope on a cow for tying in stall.

Location: Sutherland, Durness, Balvoolich
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

nasg

Notes: rope round cow’s neck in the stall.

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

nask

neck rope or chain on cows in stall. (Stoer, Assynt)

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Crodh / Cattle

niosgaid

boil, carbuncle, usually on back of neck.

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

omhaich

[ɔ̃hiç] Notes: neck. [NOTES: slipped under ‘amhaich’.]

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

omhaich

[ɔ̃iç] Notes: neck.

Origin: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

peall (f), peallan (pl)

sack formed around neck and shoulders from a blanket.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

plugadh

pressing on the neck. Thug e plugadh air. (common)

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

poca-seic

Notes: (Callanish) (seic – a semi-rigid bag, made of siaman, used for barley.) Used to describe the riding of children on an adult’s shoulder, one leg on each shoulder and round the adult’s neck. Smith A (Bragar) used for this ‘raoid (i.e. ride) a’ bhreacain uasail’. Dwelly has seic (with a Lewis definition) and poca-saic ‘a large sack thrown across a horse’s back, and large enough to contain a load’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

preaslaich

[pɾɛsɫiç] Quot.: Tha preaslaich as an amhaich aige. Note: furrowed, wrinkled skin on neck.

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

pàileid

Quotation: Nach ann air tha a’ phàileid. Notes: ‘What a brass neck he has!’ (Stronger than ‘Nach ann air tha ’n aghaidh.’) Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ròp

neck rope.

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Crodh / Cattle

saothair

narrow neck of land from promontory to mainland and from one mountain to another.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgroig

Notes: an old-fashioned, rather ill-favoured female. Dw. has sgroig (MacEachan), see sgroigean, see sgruigean neck of bottle etc.; short-necked person (in ridicule).

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgòrnan

[skɔ̣ɔ̣N̪ɑ˖n̪] Notes: front part of neck.

Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slabhraidh

neck rope.

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

smeachan

strap round the neck of the horse.

Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

smeadhag

[ˈsmɛ̃ɑɡ] Note: rope round a cow’s neck.

Origin: Caversta
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

smeadhag

[smɛ̃ɑɡ] Note: the portion of the cow’s tether round its neck when tied inside.

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

smeathac mart

neck tie.

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

smiathag or perhaps smiag

again, I think this was the piece of rope which was tied round the [cow’s] neck.

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

smidheag

[ˈsmĩɑɡ] Note: the piece of rope round the cow’s neck in the byre. (“Dòrnan” [q.v.] – the part attached to the “stiall” [q.v.].)

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

smidheag

[ˈsmĩɑɡ] Note: rope round the neck of a cow when tied inside the byre.

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

smidheag

[ˈsmĩɑɡ] Note: the part round the cow’s neck of the rope tying it in the byre.

Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spearrag

Notes: a device to prevent sheep from jumping over dykes and fences – a piece of rope hanging from the sheep’s neck with a stick tied to the end of it. Whenever the sheep tried to jump the stick would hit its legs.

Location: Skye, Broadford
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stràc

Quotation: [strɑ:k/strɑ:x mur/ə vur tɔ̃:n] – the mark of the high tide. Notes: used both of the literal high-tide mark on the seashore, and also humorously of the mark on a boy’s neck where he stopped washing. Usually [strɑ:k], younger speakers varying to [strɑ:x]. Common to Golspie and Embo, probably also Barra, though my two principal (aged) Barra informants didn’t come up with it. Source: Mr and Mrs Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate Street, Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stròinean

Note: piece of rope over the bridge of a cow’s nose, passing under the ears and attached to the rope round its neck. When the cow strained at the tethering pin, this tightened and hurt the cow, making it slacken the rope.

Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stéillean

[ʃtʹe:lʹɑṉ] Quot.: “Shlaod a’ laogh a’ stéillean as a bhalla.” Note: a wooden or iron bar fixed on to wall of a byre, and to which a cow’s or calf’s neck rope was fixed.

Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stòl

stole. Round a priest’s neck. From the Latin ‘stola’.

Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

the head and neck (parts)

Dìreach mar a chanas sibh mu chreutar sam bith de’n t-seòrsa.

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

tinneas a’ rìgh

an open wound in the neck. Constantly septic and flowing. If the wound was closed, this would result in death.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

àt bhràghad

swelling on the inside of the neck.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ìr

Quot.: Thug mi dha “ride” ìr-a’ bhacain-uasail [i:ðəvɑkɑ̃nʹu̟ɤʃəl]. Note: sitting astraddle one’s neck.

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