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Cas a’ Mhogain Riabhaich
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Notes: a Glencoe or Kintyre witch.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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Kintyre Proverbs
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Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[catrach]
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catrach math gaoithe – strong wind (Arran, Bute, Cowal, Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[note]
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“I feel that I should explain first of all that though I am in Kintyre to earn my living, I am actually a native of Uig, Lewis, so that all these words and phrases – relevant and otherwise – which I have enclosed are ‘Uig-flavoured’.”
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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aorunn
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a plain by the sea. (Kintyre)
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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a’ sgogadh
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e.g. Tha am biadh a sgogadh air. He can’t eat any more or he has stuffed himself. He is ‘stawed’. (Kintyre)
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crèisgin (m)
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a cabin, a bothy (Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eachan
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a big bi-valve, found under the sand. It has a small teat which protrudes from the shell. It is called ‘ainean’ in Tighnabruaich and ‘aineachan’ in Kintyre.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eachtrainn
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old tales, history (Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gara (adj)
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very; gara fuar, gara fliuch (Kintyre, also Lewis); actually just garbh = rough. Usage taken over into Eng. in Kintyre as “wild and cold” = very cold, “wild and wet” = very wet, but spreading to things, where its primary meaning was hardly suitable.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gille giobanach
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daddy-long-legs (Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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moine bhan
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usually soft, light and not so good. (The word used in Kintyre to describe this kind of peat is ‘phozy’.)
Location: Cinntire, An Ceann a Deas [Kintyre, Southend by Campbeltown]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working
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richeanach
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ragnails, ragged skin at base of finger-nails (N.E.); rifeineach (Uist); righinneach (Arran, Kintyre, etc.). Slender “ch” commonly reduced to gh.
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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rùdhadh
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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
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sean-eachtrainn
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history, old tales (Kintyre).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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truisleach
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rubbish (Kintyre); truillis (Lewis); troileis (Moidart).
Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
