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[Te Ruadh Mhic Mhuirich]
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Mac Mhuirich in Uist asked his red haired daughter to demand of him her dowry and Te Ruadh Mhic Mhuirich requested: “Seicein, Meicein m’ aghan meadhrach / Bo dhubh, bo dhonn, bo chrom riabhach / Sliochd na h-aona bà maoile ruadha / Nach do dh’fhàg a bhuaile riamh na h-aonar / Agus an tarbh mogach, donn.” – the lot.
Origin: Barra
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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[song]
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A song my mother used to sing: “Latha dhomhsa ’s mi na’m ònar / Dol troimh ’n choill ’s mi siubhal mòna / Thachair orms a ghruagach bhoidheach / Rinn mi comhradh rith ’s greis anail.” Refrain “Thug sibh air nighean donn nam meall-shuil / ’S trom mo cheum an deigh do gheallaidh / Thug sibh air nighean donn nam meall shuil.”
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[sruth]
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“Each dubh ’s each donn / Bonn ri bonn / Cha bheir an dubh air an donn / ’S cha bheir an donn air an dubh.” Tòimhseachan tha seo. Sruth, aibhne, no a leithid sin, tha mi an dùil.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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aran-donn
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brown bread.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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beathach donn
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Origin: [Islay, Ballygrant]
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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biast-donn
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Notes: otter.
Location: Islay, Bowmore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach donn. Notes: made from oatmeal and fish liver.
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: bonnach donn. Notes: cake made from oatmeal and fish liver.
Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach
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Quotation: Bonnach donn. Notes: cod liver, oatmeal, salt. Boiled in water.
Origin: Skye, Torrin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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breac
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Quotation: breac donn. Notes: brown trout.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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breac-donn
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Origin: Geàrrloch (Loch Iubh) [Gairloch (Loch Ewe)]
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle
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cearn
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Quotation: “Rinn e codail ceatharnach” – or cearnach. Notes: cearn – the living room. Codail ceatharnach – sleeping with clothes on. Cf. Rob Donn: “Chan eil seòmair aig rìgh Bhreatuinn, / ’S docha leann na’n cearn.”
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clàimheag
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(Fuaimnich mar làimh + ag, làimheag, laivak, claivak.) Iasg beag dubh, donn, ruadh, no mar sin, a gheibheadh tu ann an lòn anns a’ chladach, ’s e clàimheag a bh’ann. Iasg sam bith de’n t-seòrsa seo shuas ’s e clàimheag a bh’ann. Chan eil cinnt sam bith agam mu’n ainm-sa ‘clàimheag’ – an robh e air iasg sònruichte sam bith, no an è ainm a bh’ann air éisg bheaga mar a dh’ainmich mi. (Faic clàidheag ’s a leithid sin.)
Origin: Lewis, Uig an Iar
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
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crom
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Quotation: (Auntie Bella – Keose) “Dh’iarradh iad (anns a’ bhùth) dà phunnd de dhath donn, agus ùnnsa crom (chrome?) agus ùnnsa tart (tartaric acid?) airson a cheangal.” Notes: (Eng. ‘bomb’.) Not in Dw.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crotal
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nn ‘lichen’: ‘growing on bark’, dath donn [air]
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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donn
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Quotation: Biast-donn. Notes: otter.
Location: Islay, Bowmore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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donn
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Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dreadhan-donn
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[d̪ɾıɑṉd̪[ɤu̜]n̪] Note: wren.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dreathan donn
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hedge sparrow.
Location: Argyll, Tarbert, Muasdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dreathan donn (m), dreathain donn (pl)
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wren.
Origin: [Tiree]
Category: Eòin Thiriodh / Birds of Tiree
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dreathan-donn
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[d̪ɾɔɑṉd̪ɤu̜n̪] Notes: wren.
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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dreathan-donn
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[d̪ɾɛən̪d̪ɤu̜n̪] Notes: wren.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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laoichgeann
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Quotation: Tha an t-each donn na laoichgeann. Notes: stretched out.
Location: Skye, Sleat, Calligary
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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madadh-donn
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Notes: otter.
Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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rot (m)
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breac-donn de mheud is fhiach a chumail. Rot cuideachd air son beathach cuimseach air bith, rot muilt.
Origin: Geàrrloch (Loch Iubh) [Gairloch (Loch Ewe)]
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle
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spéur
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Notes: ‘fly’ of trousers. Sc. ‘spare’, v. SND. Used by Rob Donn: ‘Bha toll air a speathar ’s bha tuathas air.’
Location: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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tòc
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Notes: A growth that comes over a cow’s eye. Apparently a cataract. There were people (with a steady hand etc.) who were in regular demand for removing this (e.g. a bodach in Achmor). Dw. has tòc ‘Disease of the eyes, mostly peculiar to sheep – Rob Donn; “pink-eye” in horses.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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éileadh
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Quotation: Anna chruinn donn, / Na rinn thu ’n éileadh? / Hi horo ’s no horo eileadh. Notes: this word was used in Lewis in the sense of removal of the living from one area to a new residence.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
