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Feugarsaich

[fe:ɡəʴsiç] Note: “na Feugarsaich” applied to a certain family in Ness. A family name like, say “na Fìdhleirean”. Puilean told by a member of the family that the name applied to deer-poachers in Sutherland, where one of his ancestors had come from. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

a beelan

fishing word referring to operations on R. Ness.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bideanach

Quotation: Tha e cho bideanach. Notes: fidgety, unsettled. Source: Mrs Catherine MacLeod, Ness, Lewis. Date: 1982.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

boban

[bobɑṉ] Quot.: “a’ bhobain”, “mo bhoban”. Note: term equivalent to “daddy” in English. A.C. says it was only used in Ness “anns a’ cheann shios”, i.e. the north end.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bodach

fishing word referring to operations on R. Ness.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bota

[bɔt̪ə] Quot.: bota gainmhich. Note: used in Ness for sandbank as well as ‘baca’ [q.v.].

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brùchd

[bɾu̟:k] Ness word for above [i.e. cròic].

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

buail

Quot.: Feumaidh mi a’ bhi bualadh. Note: I’ll have to be going. (Ness)

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cachdanach

Notes: (Ness) peeving, giving a sort of disappointment. Dw. gives cachdan ‘uneasiness of mind, vexation, chagrin’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

caidhleant

Quotation: (cainnleant?, but no noticeable nasality in my mother’s pron.) It would be difficult (for a man with an artificial limb) to take two buses, ged a bhiodh e caidhleant. Notes: complete, able-bodied (?). (I think I heard Rev. Murdoch Campbell, Resolis – of Ness origin – use a form that suggested a variation of coimhliont, with a long -oi- diphthong.)

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

chaidh

Quotation: Chaidh a’ phlàsd sìos, chaidh an t-srathair suas. Notes: (from Jessie MacLeod, Ness) Used of people falling out – the last line = ‘on one’s high horse’. Srathair – saddle, pack-saddle. For plàsd read plàt (?), cf. plàt-eich ‘straw-cloth of a pack-saddle’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cho

Quotation: Cho righinn ri cac á plangaid. Notes: Ness (also known in Lochs).

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cionacraich

Notes: (Ness) fondling, handling (esp. of a woman). (< cion?) Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

comunn

Quotation: Comunn gillean na geire – ged bu mhilis an toiseach bu mhosach an deireadh. (from Jessie MacLeod, Ness. 1957)

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cruach

Quot.: a’ chruach Rosach [rɔsɑx]. Note: cornstack with eaves. Called this in Ness. Probably someone called Ross introduced it.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

deideag

[dʹedʹɑɡ] Quot.: “a’ dheideag”, “mo dheideag”. Note: term equivalent to “granny” in English. A.C. says it was only used in Ness “anns a’ cheann shios”, i.e. the north end. (I heard myself of it being used in Shader, Barvas – AJS.)

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

doirbeadan

Notes: (Ness) ‘minnow’. Intervocalic d either Eng. d (as in ‘do’) or with hint of rd. Dw. has doirb, doirbeag ‘minnow’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

failbhoin

Quotation: “Cha do dh’fhailbhoin mi” – I didn’t hear. Notes: Jessie MacLeod reports common in (North) Ness. Cf. failbhean/failmhean apparently used for the lobe of the ear. Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

feabhas

better-ness.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

finnach

fishing word referring to operations on R. Ness.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

foirbheanaich

[fɤðɤvɑ̃ṉiç] Quot.: “Bha mi a’ foirbheanadh dha rudeigin.” Note: to sense, to hear as “fidir” – a word used in Ness.

Origin: [Barvas]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

frothais (-each)

nervous(ness).

Location: South Uist, Daliburgh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fàr

Fàr; e.g. a woman living alone shouts, “Fàr a nuas an gunna!” to frighten Mac-An t-Srònaich away. Ness [Isle of Lewis]. [Note added to a paper slip on fair: Ach fair a nuas mo bhreacan guaill – Am Fear-Ciùil. An R. i (Niall Mac Gille Sheathanaich), 1917, p. 171] [Added by RÓM 25/1/2024.]

Category: ROM Slips

fìor

adj. ‘true’:  ~ òinseach do dhuine [MAE]; bha e na ~ bhruidhinn aca aire sin, an Loch Ness monster; dh’fhairgheadh e __ a’ chailleach, mas fh., gur i a bh’ ann a’ cnagadh nan cnò

Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983

ged

Quotation: (from Jessie MacLeod, Ness) Ged a chaochail innis cha do chaochail àbhaist.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

iolarachd

numerous-ness.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

lidhe

Notes: (Ness) grassy, sloping cliff. Not in Dw. Date: 1963.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mì-chòrd

Quot.: “Mhì-chòrd Nis rithe.” Note: She didn’t like Ness.

Origin: Kershader
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

needlach

fishing word referring to operations on R. Ness.

Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

palla

Notes: (Ness) (grassy) cliff ledge. Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

placadaich

Notes: (Ness) guttering of a lamp. Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgeimpeil

Notes: < Eng scamp. Applied to precocious child, or self-willed female. Source: Ness. Date: 1974.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sglàir

Quotation: sglàir dhaoine. Notes: a crowd of people. Source: A. MacLeod, Ness. Date: 1973.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgoth-Niseach

boat built in Ness, Lewis. [Cf. sgoth-Gheàrrlach.]

Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sgàig/sgàigeach

Notes: revulsion, having a revulsion towards something. Source: Ness and Skye. Date: 1974.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spùidsear

[spu̟dʹʃɑð] Quot.: used for a baler in Ness. Boat baler.

Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

staing

[st̪[ɑ̃ĩ]ɡʹ] Quot.: “staingean a’ chléibh”. Note: the main ribs of the creel. (Also in Ness.) [NOTES: note added by Richard Cox – also of stones (as steps) protruding from wall of house.]

Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stiapan

Quotation: stiapan/stèapan a’ bhùirn. Notes: (Cnoc Ard, Ness) Streaks of foam on sea, presaging rain. Dw. has stèapan ‘candle-wick’.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

taighean earraich

(Ness) moor, shieling, cattle under cover.

Location: Lewis, Arnol
Category: Crodh / Cattle

toille (f)

hollow-ness.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

treasg

Quotation: ’Si a’ mhuc shàmhach as motha dh’itheas dhe’n treasg. Notes: draff, refuse of malt. Source: reported by Willie Matheson – used by his mother (Ness). Date: 1969.

Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous