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--blank--: bed.
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
--blank--: dog’s bed.
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
[bharr]: Bharr na leapa. Off the bed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[bog]: Tha e gu bog blath na leapaidh. He is warm and snug in bed. [NOTE in second hand: … ’na leabaidh.]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[bràigh]: Braighe na leapa. Head of the bed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[bàs]: Bàs a’ chin-adhairt. – dying in bed.
Location: Killearn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[cure for backache]: Note 6: Another cure for backache if the ache showed the symptoms of a strain was the patient sleeping on a (hard) wooden bed, that is without a soft mattress, as the movement of the mattress did not help but seemingly the back of the patient responded better to the non-movement of the underpart of the bed, wooden or boards, thus believed to ease the ache on to the patient’s recovery.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[cure for colds]: Note 5: Another cure for colds was a dip in the sea and then off to bed for sometime, an interval, etc. A gentleman on the Island of Scalpay years back was under a dose of cold. While he was engaged in mooring a boat he had, he fell accidentally into the sea at the point of disembarkation, this was by the shore. The place by the shore was shallow, he pulled himself over the seaweed on to the rocks, he had his clothes on, of course. On arriving home he immediately changed into fresh dry clothing again, of course, and found its [sic] ordeal so refreshing, and the cold none the worse, and by next day the cold ‘was gone’.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[laighe]: Bi falbh a laighe! – Be off to bed!
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[leabaidh]: Leapaidh a’ mhuill. A chaff bed. [NOTE in second hand: leaba mhuill.]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[leabaidh]: Thig bharr na leapa. Come off the bed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[leapa]: Thoir do leapa ort. Get off to bed. [NOTE in second hand: leapa corrected to leaba.]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[leisg]: Is leisg le leisgein dol a laidhe, ach is seachd leisg leis eirigh. – The lazy fellow is lazy to go to bed but seven times lazier to get up.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
[teachd]: An teachd e ’san leapaidh? Has he room in the bed?
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
adhart: Notes: a pillow. “Ceann adhairt na leapa.” – The pillow end of the bed.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ag innearadh na feannaig: Putting manure in lazy-bed.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
an giada (f): potatoes in lazy bed.
Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
an sgaoilteach: the dry bed (uachdar a phoill).
Origin: Sgìre na Pàirc an Leódhas [Lewis, the Park district]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
anaglaich: [ˈɑ̃ṉɑɡɫiç] Note: used of making a person who was bed-ridden comfortable by shifting his position.
Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
a’ sgaoileadh: the initial throw or the subsequent spreading in a dry bed ?
Origin: Sgìre na Pàirc an Leódhas [Lewis, the Park district]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
a’ taomadh: Placing the upturned clods on ‘lazy-bed’ and filling bed with soil taken from trench. Also: making ‘lazy-beds’. (See: ploc(hd) maladh.)
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
bancas: played by school-boys on lazy-beds. One boy on the middle lazy-bed and a team of boys on another trying to get across to the 3rd lazy-bed without the boy on the middle one touching them. If he happened to touch one, he was dismissed. Again the former word used for the same pastime was dad-oighridh. Perhaps meaning ‘to your estate’. Thus do d’ oighreadh or oighridh – to your estate. This was the way I take it to be pronounced. The word has died colloquially. [SLIP: A game played by boys on lazy-beds. One boy would stand on the middle lazy-bed while a team of boys starting from another lazy-bed tried to cross the middle one to a third one without the boy in the middle touching them. If someone was ‘tagged’, he was out of the game. Used to be called ‘dad-oighridh’ – ‘to your estate’?]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beid: shallow bed in ground (as of a hare). (T.G.S.I., 29)
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beinge: Quotation: beinge na leapa. Notes: the edge of the bed.
Location: Coll, Ben Meadhonach
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beinge: Quotation: beinge na leapa. Notes: the edge of the bed.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beingidh: Quotation: a’ bheingidh. “Tha e ’na shuidhe air a’ bheingidh.” – when getting out of bed. Notes: the front board of a bed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
beingidh: Quotation: Tha e ’na shuidhe air a’ bheingidh. Notes: the edge of the bed.
Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bogha-làir: ‘ground rock’ on the sea-bed which doesn’t show at ebb time, a rock getting its name through rising ‘bow’ shape slightly from the bottom of the sea. [SLIP: Rock on the sea-bed which doesn’t show at ebb-tide.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
boghal: the cow’s bed or stall in the byre.
Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
bord-slios na leapa: the front or side of the bed facing out into the room.
Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
botul-teth: hot water bottle, for warming the feet in bed.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
buabhall: The cow’s bed was called a ‘buabhall’, a good Gaelic word for stall.
Origin: Skye
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
bàs: Quotation: bàs a’ chinn adhairt. Notes: death in bed.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
bòrd-slios: Notes: board at the side of the bed.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cailleach: Quotation: a’ chailleach. Notes: the line of turf bounding the bed in an àirigh. The bed itself had a bolster of machair, etc. Not in Dwelly, but note the semantic connection with his cailleach-baic ‘… the outside peat in a bank’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cailleach: Quotation: a’ chailleach. Notes: the turf seat beside the bed in a shieling. (Shader)
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
caislich: Quotation: a caisleachadh na leapa – making up the bed. Notes: caislich – smoothe.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceann-adhairt: Quotation: an ceann-adhairt. Notes: the pillow end of a bed.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceann-adhart: Quotation: ceann-adhart na leap. Notes: head of the bed.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceann-adhart: Quot.: “ceann-adhart na leap”. Note: the head of the bed.
Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceann-uiread: Quotation: ceann-uiread na leap. Notes: the “head” of the bed.
Location: Ross-shire, Torridon, Alligin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ceap: Notes: Dwelly gives ‘Sort of sofa or couch formed of peats, placed between the fire and the bed in the ‘bothan-àiridh’, and used as a seat.’ The edge or boundary of the bed, instead of bòrd-slios – in old shielings. Also used for sitting on.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
clòsaid: A small closet which contained a single four poster bed. It was usually adjacent to the living room, and in some houses opened off the narrow passage between the outer door and door of living room.
Origin: Skye
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
comhlach: termed generally; comhlach of a lighter quality was used in bed mattresses.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
corachd (f): short “o”; obligation, death-bed entreaty, etc. (N.E.). ? From “cur, cuir, cor” – nì a chuirear air duine, agus fheumas bhith dèanta aige.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
corracha cagalt: seen in the fire (to frighten children to bed).
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuach: Quotation: Tha e cho math a dhol dhan a’ chuaich. Notes: bed. (cuach – nest)
Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuibhrige: bed cover. Cuibhrige leabadh. Tha e fo’n chuibhrige.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cuibhrige: bed-cover.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
càradh na leapadh: making the bed.
Origin: Barra
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
càraid: Quotation: a’ cur a laighe na càraid. Notes: bride and bridegroom undressed by close friends and put to bed. Drams passed round.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cìbhrinn: Quotation: cìbhrinn drògaid. Notes: drugget covering (on a bed).
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
cìbhrinn: [civəɾĩŋ] Notes: bed cover.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
còmhdach-leabadh: bed clothes.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
diaradh: bed sheet placed on heather mattress.
Location: North Uist, Sollas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
drògaid: Quotation: cìbhrinn drògaid. Notes: drugget covering (on a bed).
Location: Islay, Port Wemyss
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
eisle: Quotation: a’ dol a dheasachadh na h-eisle. Notes: eisle used in Tiree of bed where body lies in a house. Normally prepared by close relatives or friends.
Location: Tiree, [Caolas? – one slip]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: Notes: lazy-bed.
Location: Sutherland, Durness, Sangomore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag: [fȷɑ̃n̪ɑɡ] Note: a lazy-bed.
Origin: Harris, Bays
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feannag: Quotation: feannag taomaidh. Notes: lazy-bed.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feannag: Notes: lazy-bed.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
feannag (f) (chorc): (general) “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides. See ‘taomadh’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag (f), feannagan (pl): lazy-bed.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag bheag: (general) “Lazy-bed”. A long, narrow ribbon-like strip of ground for growing potatoes and occasionally corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with the earth taken out of the trenches along both sides. See ‘taomadh’.
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
feannag-thaomaidh: Notes: a lazy-bed. About 6' wide. Covered with seaweed. Turf divots turned inwards from the two sides till everything was covered with earth. Holes were made with a dibble and potatoes dropped in. In the autumn the divots were turned back to uncover the potatoes.
Location: Skye, Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
fianach: Notes: grass used on top of heather in shieling bed. Dwelly gives as ‘moor-grass’ (from Uig, Lewis).
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
filleadh: [fılʹəɣ] Quot.: filleadh ard, filleadh iosal. Note: bed-sheets.
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
fionnaradh: Quotation: Anns an fhionnaraidh. Notes: understood as being roughly the time between nightfall and bed-time.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gaida: lazy bed.
Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
geadag: a flower bed.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
geadag (f): flower-bed (in garden, etc.).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
gliogradh: Quotation: “Well, well, tha iad ag innse dhòmhsa nach eil càil ann an tarbh Hàboist ach g’ eil e gliogradh.” Notes: (Habost) Story of the Habost bull-man, on his death-bed, breaking into the comforting and exhortation of two visitors. (A story of Uncle Neil’s, relayed by my mother.) Dw. has gliogradh, See gliongadh, and for the latter ‘tinkling, act of tinkling, clinking or rattling’.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
iasg bruich agus sauis (sabhs): 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
iomair-taomaidh: Notes: lazy-bed.
Location: Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
laigh: Quot.: “Tha e na laighe.” Note: used of somebody who is ill and confined to bed.
Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
laigh: Quotation: a’ cur a laighe na càraid. Notes: bride and bridegroom undressed by close friends and put to bed. Drams passed round.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
lathaich: Notes: soft mud, usually on the bed of a pool or loch.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leaba: bed.
Origin: Barra
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
leaba: [lʹɑbə] Notes: bed.
Origin: Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leaba dhùbailte: double bed.
Origin: Barra
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
leaba mhór: box bed.
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leaba-mhór: Notes: box-bed.
Location: North Uist, Bayhead, Kylis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabag-an-eithir: a wee bed or lair on the shore for to hold a boat on at ebb tide, a space or ‘bed’ on the shore above water level, just to hold a boat on.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh: [ʎɛhpəɣ ] n. ‘bed’: bràigh na leapadh ‘bed head’
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List
leabaidh (I): Box-bed.
Origin: Leòdhas [Lewis], Uig an Iar
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
leabaidh ard: box bed.
Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
leabaidh laighe: the moor-bed on which the peats are thrown out for drying.
Origin: Lewis, Back or Lewis, Back
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
leabaidh siubhla: the bed on which such a woman [i.e. woman in state of travail] is placed. [Cf. laighe siubhla].
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-an-laoigh: internal ‘bed of a calf’, ‘abdominally’.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-aoil: bed in which a stone is set in a wall of mortar and stones.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-fhiodh: wooden bed, boxed bed as in the black-house days.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-iaruinn: iron bed (frames). [SLIP: Iron bed (frame).]
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-laoigh: calf-bed.
Origin: ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Inverness Co.) or ([Canada], Victoria Co.)
Category: Crodh / Cattle
leabaidh-mhuill: Notes: chaff bed.
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-rainich: fern bed. As far as I understand, fern (‘raineach’) was in this case, as above mentioned, a factor in collecting insects or fleas. The ‘raineach’ generally, which accounts for all species.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-ròs: rose-bed, it may have originated from a gardening version.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leabaidh-ròsach: rosy-bed, alluring [sic] to a comfortable dry place to lay [sic] on.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leapaich (-eadh): literally to secure or bed. Also used in building trade, meaning to bed or settle a stone in the appropriate place.
Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leid: a makeshift bed made on the floor.
Location: Barra, Eoligarry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
leid: a makeshift bed made on the floor.
Location: Benbecula, Creagorry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
milarach: tender, sappy grass on bed of the ocean.
Location: Harris, Borisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
mogan: a stocking with a short top, a bed sock. (?)
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
morghan: [mɔɾɑɣɑṉ] Notes: gravel, usually found on the bed of a loch or river.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
othar-laighe: sick-bed.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
plucan: the warts formed from bed clothes. [SLIP: (Plural) Bed-sores.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pàm: Note: the curtain hanging down from the side of the bed to the floor.
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
pàma: [masc.] the brightly coloured frill or valance round the bed.
Origin: Eileanaich [natives of Lewis]
Category: Taigh Gàidhealach / House and Furnishings
rùsgadh: Bed sore. Cuideachd “Mo bhroilleach air rùsgadh” – le móran casadaich.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
searg-laighe: sick-bed.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
seid de chabhlaich: a bed of straw used by dogs and cattle.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
seig: makeshift bed made of hay.
Location: Harris, Sgarastamhor
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
seomar-leapaidh: [ʃombər leˈpi] Notes: bed-room.
Location: Perthshire, Killin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
socachadh: going into place as a boat in a pit, making her bed so to speak from ‘socadh’, another form of the word.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
taomadh: Placing the upturned clods on ‘lazy-bed’ and filling bed with soil taken from trench. (See: ploc(hd) maladh.)
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
taomadh: Placing the upturned clods on ‘lazy-bed’ and filling bed with soil taken from trench. (See: ploc(hd) maladh.)
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
taomadh: Placing the upturned clods on ‘lazy-bed’ and filling bed with soil taken from trench. Also: making ‘lazy-beds’. (See: ploc(hd) maladh.)
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture
toman: a miniature lazy-bed.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ullanaich: Quot.: “ag ullanachadh duine ann a’ leabaidh”. Note: shifting a person’s position in bed to make him more comfortable.
Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ullanaich: Quot.: “Chan urrainn dha e fhéin ullanachadh.” Note: said of a person in bed who cannot make himself more comfortable in bed.
Origin: Kershader
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ullanaich: [u̜ɫɑṉiç] Quot.: “Dh’ullanaich mi e anns a leabaidh.” “Bha e comasach air e fhéin ullanachadh.” Note: used of altering the position of somebody who is bed-ridden in order to be more comfortable.
Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
ùrlar: Quotation: urlar [sic] na leapa. Notes: bottom of the bed.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

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