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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather
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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Category: Sìde / Weather
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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather
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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Origin: Mull, Tobermory
Category: Sìde / Weather
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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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13. General sayings or proverbs connected with the weather
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Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather
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Kintyre Proverbs
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Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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Lorne Proverbs
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Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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North Uist Proverbs
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Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[general sayings or proverbs 10]
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An oiteag luaineach feadh nam bruach tha gluasad barr an fheòir.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 1]
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Fiath an fhaoillich agus gaol siùrsaich.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 2]
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B’fhèarr leam ruag is creach a thighinn do’n tìr na madainn mhin an fhaoillich.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 3]
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Gheibheadh tu geamhradh math nan robh earrach geal grianach ann agus foghar breac riabhach ’na dhéidh.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 4]
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Faileas (reflection) sam bi anns a’ loch bhiodh sin ’na chomharradh droch-shìd’.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 5]
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Beanntan a’ sealltainn (Tiree instead of ‘a’ coimhead’) na’s fhaisge ort na tha iad ann da rireadh.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 6]
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[crossed out]
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 7]
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Gaoth-a-tuath fuachd is feannadh / Gaoth-an-iar iasg is bainne / Gaoth-a-deas teas is toradh / Gaoth-an-ear tart is crannadh.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 8]
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Ma chailleas tu ghaoth, iar an deas i.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[general sayings or proverbs 9]
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Speur dearg anns a’ mhadainn trath anns an earrach, bha fiughair ri an-shìd’ gun dàil, agus gaoth an eara-dheas.
Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather
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[note]
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“(...) I enclose all the words from the Glenurquhart proverbs which do not appear to be in dictionaries. In a number of cases the proverbs are quoted. I think the proverbs were written down by my father early in the century. His mother was born in Glenurquhart in 1835 and the proverbs noted were regularly used by her.”
Location: Inverness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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partan tuathalan
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Tha iad so pailt far am bheil gainmheach bhàn no airgeadach (silvery). Brittle white crab. Tha gath ann a tha nimheil, is leanaidh an goirteas uine mhor. Tha mi a’ creidsinn gur e sin a dh’aobharaich an sean-fhacal – ’S fheàrr am partan tuathalan na bhith gun duine (Nicolson’s Proverbs). Tha na partain so pailt anns na geòdhaichean gainmhich deas air Ceann an Tiumpain.
Location: Lewis, Port of Ness, Lionel
Category: Maorach / Shellfish
