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Bhithinn a’ cluinntinn na dhà-sa a riamh:
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“Miann bo braon, / Miann caora teas, / Miann each lòn / Anns an òl e a dheoch. / Miann gaibhre gaoth, / Anns an aonach chas, / Miann a’ chait ’s an luath, / Nuair as cruaidhe an fhras.” “Bainne-cioch circe / Ann an adharc muice, / ’S ite corra-sgèith cait / ’Ga shuathadh ris.” (Tuigidh sibh fhéin de an seòrsa a tha ’s an fhear-sa.)
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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Thug e lòn fada dhith
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applied to someone who had left home for foreign countries. [NOTES: ‘lòn’ corrected to ‘lon’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[lòn]
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Air bheag loin. On low diet.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[note]
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Ann an ainmeannan tha againn: cnap, crò, lurga, bruga, clach, palla, lobhta, slinnean, òs, leac, sròn, dùnan, sìthean, lòn, beàrn, cadha, àrd, lùib, sgor.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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[steall]
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’S iomadh lòn anns do chuir thu steall. Applied to some [sic] [someone?] who had led a varied life.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
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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coman lòn
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[kʰo̟mɑṉ ɫɔ:ṉ] snipe.
Location: North Argyll
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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feur-lòn
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Notes: grass growing in damp spots. On big farms with a lot of fallow ground this was cut for hay.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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gluma (E)
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Lòn domhainn.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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gobhar-dubh-an-éisg
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Notes: the dipper. (Or lòn-dubh-an-éisg, according to D. Robertson, Invergarry.)
Origin: Kinlochourn
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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greim lòn
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rheumatic pain.
Location: Harris, Finsbay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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greim lòn
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lumbago.
Location: Harris, Cluer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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loineachdnadh
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to roll about in some substance. “Bha an cù ga loineachdnadh fhéin thall an sin ann an lòn.”
Location: North Uist, Grimsay, Gearradh Dubh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòinidh
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Quotation: gréum a lòinidh. Notes: backache. (Lòn – the kidney.)
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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Notes: a burn or stream.
Location: BBC
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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lòn
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bog.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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lòn
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Notes: a stream (bigger than ‘sruthan’).
Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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Notes: a small stream.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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bogs.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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lòn
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Notes: pond, pool.
Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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[ɫɔ:ṉ] Notes: a quagmire (also Durness).
Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn
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[lɔn] meadow.
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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lòn
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Notes: pool.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn (E)
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Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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lòn (E)
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Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
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lòn chraois
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a fly floating in water. Considered to be contaminated and dangerous to drink.
Location: North Uist, Tigharry
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn dubh
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Location: Mull [see below for details]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn shitig
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applied to an untidy, dirty house.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn thunnag
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where ducks swam and cleaned themselves.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn-bhlian
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Note: flank.
Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn-chraois
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(still common) glutton.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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lòn-dubh
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black-bird.
Category: Eòin / Birds
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lòn-dubh-an-éisg
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Notes: the dipper. (Or gobhar-dubh-an-éisg, according to Farquhar MacRae, Invergarry.)
Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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na do lòn bog fliuch
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Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather
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prèach (E)
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Lòn tana, farsuing, bog. Uaireannan dubh agus uaireannan le na h-uibhir de bhreacadh feòir ann, no air.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Cruth na Tìre / Landscape Features
