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chat / ceilidh.
Origin: [Ross-shire]
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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[céilidh]
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Theid iad air cheile chuige [sic]. They will visit him.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bàl luaidh
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a dance/ceilidh held after the completion of waulking.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ceilidh ceardach
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a long drawn out visit.
Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ceilidh ceardaich
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a saying for spending a rainy day indoors. [NOTES: corrected to ‘cèilidh ceàrdaich’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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còir
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Quotation: Còir gu robh Màiri aig a’ chèilidh. Notes: ‘So Mary was at the cèilidh.’
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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deadh fhear ceilidh
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an entertaining fellow.
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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obair
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nn f. ‘work’ : chan urrainn dhomhsa ìnnse dè ‘n ~ anns a robh e; vbl nn : ‘s e ag ~ ‘s a’ cur a-mach a theanga; bha ‘ phìob ag~ ; bha cèilidh ann, ceòl is pìobaireachd is dannsadh,
dh’fhàg sinn ag ~ e; nuair a chaidh iad a dh’~
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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port
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Quot.: “port an daruis”. Note: when boys would start to get noisy in a céilidh house one might say “’S e port an daruis a th’agaibh a nis!” indicating they would have to leave.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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àmhailte
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[ɑ̃:ılʹtʹə] Quot.: “Cuir thuige àmhailte dha!” Note: a peat, half of it burning, used as a torch, e.g. when going home at night from a céilidh.
Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
