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5.5. Spring tide

Location: Na Hearadh, Gòbhaig [Harris, Gobhaig]
Category: Sìde / Weather

5.5. Spring tide

Category: Sìde / Weather

5.5. Spring tide

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather

5.5. Spring tide

Origin: Mull, Tobermory
Category: Sìde / Weather

5.5. Spring tide

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

5.5. Spring tide

Origin: [Barra]
Category: Sìde / Weather

6. Spring work

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

6. Spring work

Location: [Arran? see the comment under 3]
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

6. Spring work

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

6. Spring work

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

6. Spring work

Origin: Tiree
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

Spring-rope

An ròpa tiugh trom a tha cumail na lin comhnard anns a’ mhuir. Anns an tarraing tha an càbull so a’ dol mu cheapsun is tha an còcaire ga chuibhligeadh gu cothromach do tholl anns an dec faisg air an toiseach. Is e so as coireach gur e cuibhleir a theirte ris a’ chòcaire. Tha na stopairean air am fosgladh bhon spring-rope anns an tarraing ach chan eil na buidhe-ropan air am fosgladh bho na lin.

Origin: [Lewis], Dail a Tuath or [Lewis], Suaineabost [Swainbost] or [Lewis], Lional
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle

Stopair

Am ball a tha ceangal na lin aig an druim iochdair ris an ‘Spring-Rope’.

Origin: [Lewis], Dail a Tuath or [Lewis], Suaineabost [Swainbost] or [Lewis], Lional
Category: Acfhuinn Iasgaich / Fishing Tackle

[earrach]

Ceann coin air maduinn earraich agus earbal feucaig. Refers to the onset of spring and how a spring day can differ within 24 hours.

Location: North Uist, Carinish, Trianaid House
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[earrach]

“Mios faoillaich, naoi latha gearran, trì latha sguabaig, suas an t-earrach.” Used to herald the beginning of spring.

Category: Sìde / Weather

[gluasad]

gluasad-mall-lànach – slow movement in fullness or from a [?] slow movement to fullness. Perhaps from ‘làn-mara’ – spring tide. Gluasad-mallanach – slow movement with the difference in pronunciation. I am not prepared to accept it as the same word with exactly the same meaning. Gluasad buan mhaireannach – perpetual motion.

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

[reothart]

Rabhairt an diugh is conntraigh am maireach. Up today and down tomorrow. [NOTE in second hand: Spring tide to-day, neap-tide to-morrow.]

Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

[rothart]

[spring tide.] Rothart Mór na Féill Pàdruig – fell on 27th March on old calendar.

Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

aislear

spring-tide.

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

an treabhadh

spring work. Common term for this district.

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

an àiteach

spring work.

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

ascall

loss of cattle in the spring.

Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

a’ cruachadh

building into seven foot ‘beehive structures’; this will be brought home at the woman’s leisure during good days in Autumn, Winter and Spring; few do this nowadays. Their work on the ‘sliabh’ halts at ‘tòrr’ [q.v.] at which stage the tractor is called into action.

Origin: Leódhas, An Rudha [Lewis, Rudha]
Category: Mòine / Peat-Working

bachallag

Notes: sprout growing on potatoes in spring (before planting).

Location: Skye, Harlosh
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

barr-a-cùg

[bərəˈk̚u:kᶜ] Notes: the flower of the potato plant. Only Embo speakers know and use this word; unknown in Golspie and Brora. Source: Sandy MacKay, Hall St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bathallag

Quotation: bathallag a’ bhuntàta. Notes: the sprout growing on potatoes in spring.

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bileag

Quotation: Bitheadh bileag a’ tighinn a mach tuilleadh. Notes: said of the first appearance of new grass in the spring.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

biorsamaid

[bjwʴsəmɑdʹ] Notes: spring balance. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Invergarry, North Laggan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bismeid

balance, ‘spring balance’ for weighing. (Lewis) [NOTES: the slip has ‘bismeid (biorsamaid)’.]

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bocsa-na-gocaid

cornered (in a box) in a situation wherein the subject or person is in difficulty, and at the same time hopeful of recovery, or having access from a jumping up and down, or movement up and down, as the toy movent [sic] [moving?] on a spring in a box. (Harris) Tha thu ’m bocsa-na-gocaid. (Harris)

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

bonaid

Quotation: “Bonaid an fhodair”. Notes: Said of a person who went from house to collect fodder in the spring. They would say, “Tha bonaid an fhodair air.”

Origin: Benbecula
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bonnach Brìde

a special cake which was baked on the first day of spring. Cf. Mr R. Bunton, Stoneybridge, South Uist. Refers to serpent chant associated with St. Bride’s. According to this informant the chant belongs to Celtic mythology which believed that a serpent did come from the ground. Apparently the serpent was the daughter of Ivor.

Location: Barra, Ard Mhinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brac

[brɑk] Notes: a fine form of sea-weed growth that attached itself to lines and nets in the early summer and was a great trial to the fishermen. Common to Golspie, and Embo (probably also to Brora, although the old couple I asked didn’t remember it – the man only fished for one season and wasn’t so well up on his fishing terminology as the Embo and Golspie men). Source: Sandy MacKay, 8 Hall St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bragaire

red seaweed usually found in late winter, early spring – ‘todhar earraich’. Àthadh bragaire – burning this substance. Cocanan bragaire – small stacks.

Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

breac-an-t-sìl

a little speckled bird with a long tail seen in spring when the ploughing was done.

Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brochan

Quotation: brochan feanndaig. Notes: nettle soup. Nettle leaves put in pot and boiled. Oatmeal added. Usually taken in spring.

Location: Tiree, Heylipool [sic]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

brod

a gaff with a hook used to draw out lobsters. This could only be used at spring tide.

Location: Milngavie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bruchda-dubh

near spring cartloads of rotten seaweed would be taken ashore.

Location: South Uist, Kildonan
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

buidhneach

Quotation: [ɤ wĩ:nɑx] ‘the jaundice’. [hɑ ɤ wĩ:nɑx er] ‘He has the jaundice’. Notes: common to Brora, Golspie, and Embo in this form. Source: Mrs John MacRae, 12 Moray Terrace, Brora. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bùrn-éirigh

Notes: spring water.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

bùrn-éirigh

Notes: spring-water. Not in Dw.

Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cailleach-bhuaineadh

[kɑlʹɑxvu̟ɤṉəɣ] Notes: the last handful of corn at harvest-time was taken in, made into a St. Andrew’s Cross, decorated with ribbon and hung inside the house on a nail. The two horses got a half-share each of this before they started the ploughing in spring.

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cliath mhor

Harrow – spring-toothed variety – predecessor of disc harrow. [NOTES: spelled ‘cliath mhór’ on the slip.]

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

clàdan (m), clàdain (pl)

large snowflakes in spring and winter, not too cold. Would cover a penny.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

craobh gharabhaigs (Harris)

(Sprig of a) rowan tree. Also termed in Gaelic as undernoted – craobh chaorunn (?). Disease: earache (greim cluaise – ola chroinn, ola theth), eye-diseases (gulamail – incantation in some cases (cure)). Part used: ** To keep evil influences (as a charm) from the door, a spring [sic] [sprig?] set in a cow’s tail did the job likewise to prevent the cow coming under the spell of evil. Sources of information: my mother. ** traditional noted by Martin Martin (?), etc.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants

crosgagan

strong winds from the north east in spring and autumn.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuibhleir

coiler. Tha e ’na chuibhleir againn anns a’ bhàta – a boy hand in a fishing boat as a coiler, for coiling the rope, the tarred rope (spring), to which the nets are fastened.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

cuillbhainn

a water spring.

Location: North Uist, Sollas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

càir

Quotation: “Tha càir-gheal air an oitir.” Notes: foam on the sea, caused by the spring tide going over the edge of the oitir (q.v.).

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

deoch gheal

water with oatmeal and sugar. Particularly if working outside – spring and harvest.

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Biadh is Deoch / Food and Drink

drèibh

[d̪ɾɛ:v] Notes: a sluggard, slow-coach; e.g. someone who is always behind with spring work, autumn work.

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dudar-leum

sudden spring.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

dìonag

Notes: a sheep in its second year. Put to ram about November of second year and becomes a “caora” when it lambs the following spring. (See ath-dhìonag.)

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

earachaol

I am not definitely sure of this word. I haven’t heard the word now since years. I take it to mean leanness of spring. I remember hearing it something thus: anns an earachaol – in the leanness of spring, referring to cattle or cow or sheep, beasts in particular.

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

east wind in spring

Origin: Harris, Horgabost or Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Sìde / Weather

eilghidh

[elei] Quot.: “ag eilghidh na talmhainn ann an dùmhlachd na bliadhna”. Note: first ploughing in winter to break up the soil. Turned in the spring for sowing.

Origin: Crowlista
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

faochag

Quotation: siadh fhaochag. Notes: whelk broth. The whelks were boiled, removed from shells, then boiled again with oatmeal. Eaten with potatoes, usually in spring.

Location: Tiree, Heylipool [sic]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

feamainn-chìrein

this seaweed ‘plant’ was boiled and the voluminous part and liquid from it, the water in which [it] was boiled, the intermixture and the solid parts of it in other words, was given to cattle in spring. The liquid has tonic attribution [sic] plus the seaweed part or parts boiled counteract the effects of the dry straw and hay, which can be ‘administered’ too frequently.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants

feanndag

Quotation: brochan feanndaig. Notes: nettle soup. Nettle leaves put in pot and boiled, oatmeal added. Usually taken in spring.

Location: Tiree, Heylipool [sic]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fianaidh

spring-cart (E. Ross).

Origin: [Strathglass]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

flagais

[fɫɑɡiʃ] Notes: after a heavy haul of cuddies/saithe in October, a trench was dug and alternate layers of cuddies and peat dross were put into it. This was covered with turf divots. Renewed in late spring and put on lea land where corn was to be sown. This trench was called “flagais”.

Location: Coll, Sorrisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fodair

Quotation: bonaid an fhodair. Notes: Said of a person who went from house to house in the spring to collect fodder. They would say “Tha bonaid an fhodair air.”

Origin: Benbecula
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

frachd

[frɑxk] Quotation: [hɑ mi dut gɤs ən uɑrɑn ɔrn frɑxk bu:rn] “I’m going to the spring for a load of water.” Notes: a cearcall-load of water, i.e. 2 pails. Still well-remembered in Embo; recognized as an old-fashioned word in Golspie. Source: Mr and Mrs Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fraoidh

[frɤi] Quotation: [xɔ fošk ri frɤi] used to mean “wide open”, but no one knows what [frɤi] is, or how to use it in any other context. Notes: common to Brora, Golspie, and Embo. Source: Mr and Mrs Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fuachd-earraich

cold of spring (or as cold as spring). Tha fuachd earraich innte.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fuaran

Notes: spring or well. “Tobar” not used.

Origin: Glenurquhart
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

fìor-uisge

Notes: a spring.

Origin: Islay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

gaiseadh na laimhe

refers to being careful as to how many seeds you planted in spring, being tight fisted about it. If you did not plant sufficient seeds what kind of harvest did you expect? Gaiseadh na laimhne agus mùthadh a’ chorrain [q.v.] – a saying associated with farming pointing to two things which would leave you bare.

Location: North Uist, Iollathraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

glas-cheap

Notes: talamh làidir ploughed, one crop of corn, then following spring “Chuir mi ’m buntàta as a’ ghlas-cheap.”

Location: Skye, Portree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

iorsmaid

[wʴsmɑ̃dʹ] [sic] Notes: spring balance. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Achlyness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

làn mhór

during spring tide (rothart).

Location: North Uist, Iollaraigh [Illeray]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

làn reothairt

high spring tide.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

madadh

Notes: clam. Collected only at very low tides in the spring.

Location: Harris
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

maraich

[mɑ̃ɾıç] Note: a plant growing near the shore with a bright red flower on it. Small broad, very smooth leaves. Covered by spring tides. Used for making a poultice for itch on the soles of the feet. Used for several things.

Origin: Caversta
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

mathair uisge

a water spring.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

màirteanan

Note: the cracking of the skin of the feet and legs when going about barefoot in spring.

Location: Harris, Grosebay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

obair an’ earraich

spring work.

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

pollag

Quot.: “Pollagan a Chinn a Tuath” – in Bragar. Note: a boggy place which never dries due to spring water (bùirn-éirigh).

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

puilmean

[pu̟lu̟mɑṉ] Note: a bubble in water as when a spring bubbles up.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

reothart

Quotation: reothart mór na h-Fheill Pàruig (sic). Notes: the biggest spring tide in the year (27th March – old reckoning, 17 March – new reckoning).

Location: Tiree, Heylipool [sic]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

reothart

[ˈroəḏ] Quotation: [t̪ɔpˈroəḏ]. Notes: the height of the spring tide.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

reothart

Quotation: [rɑvɑrtʹ] (rabhairt). Notes: spring tide.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ri g’éilaidh, leagal na’ h’éilaidh

beginning of spring work; rough turning of soil with spade preparatory to sowing with barley seed. When manured, turned or ploughed again and then sown. The last crop put down in the season except perhaps veg., cabbage etc.

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

riasg

Notes: coarse grass that flourishes in the spring.

Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

rothart

spring tide.

Location: South Uist, Bornish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

seusdair

[ʃe:sd̪əɾ] Quotation: seusdair sruth reothairt. Notes: spring tide at the height of its power – surge.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

siadh

[ʃiɤɣ] Quotation: siadh fhaochag. Notes: whelk broth. The whelks were boiled, removed from the shells, then boiled again with oatmeal. Eaten with potatoes. (Usually in spring.)

Location: Tiree, Heylipool [sic]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

singealadh

[ʃĩŋɡʹɑɫəɣ] Quot.: a’ singealadh. Note: a Berneray (Harris) word. As seaweed was gathered in the wintertime it was spread on the ground. It settled down and when the ground was ploughed in the spring the seaweed had to be raked into the furrows. This was “a’ singealadh”.

Origin: Ness
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

sitig

a layer of dung manure and seaweed alternately put together during late winter and early spring; good for all crops.

Origin: Ross and Cromarty, Lewis
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

sitig

Note: large hollows in the shingle into which the seaweed coming ashore was put. Manure was taken to it by creel in the spring time. The mixture used on the ground. Sandy soil needed this.

Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

slògag

[sɫɔ:ɡɑɡ] Notes: “slates” made up of small sheaves of corn. The seed was removed and the sheaf tied at the top of the stalks. The bottom part was then spread out like a fan. This was done in autumn. They were then laid in “bundles” of a dozen over the winter. By spring they were placed flat. Put on roof like slates.

Location: Skye, Staffin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spring

rope to which fish nets are tied.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

spring

the string by which buoy is attached to back-rope.

Location: Harris, Kyles Stockinish
Category: Iasgach an Sgadain / Herring-Fishing

stailleard

[sṯɑlʹɑʴḏ] Notes: a spring balance. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stailleard

[st̪ɑlʹɑʴḏ] Note: spring balance. [NOTES: the turned r used for the symbol which is unclear in the original.]

Origin: Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stalairt

spring weighing machine. (Harris)

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

stalairt

balance, ‘spring balance’ for weighing.

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stalart

weighing balances, spring weighing. (Spelt as pronounced in Scalpay.) [SLIP: A spring balance for weighing.]

Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stràc

Quotation: [strɑ:k/strɑ:x mur/ə vur tɔ̃:n] – the mark of the high tide. Notes: used both of the literal high-tide mark on the seashore, and also humorously of the mark on a boy’s neck where he stopped washing. Usually [strɑ:k], younger speakers varying to [strɑ:x]. Common to Golspie and Embo, probably also Barra, though my two principal (aged) Barra informants didn’t come up with it. Source: Mr and Mrs Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate Street, Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

stròm(e)

(noun) enclosure where the sea enters at a narrow inlet, the entrance ebbing at low spring tides. [Cf. stròmach.]

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

sùileag

a spring of water.

Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tobar

Quotation: tobar ruadh. Notes: spring producing water containing iron.

Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

tobar

Quotation: tobar ruadh. Notes: spring or well with iron in the water.

Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

top

[t̪ɔp] Quotation: top reothairt [t̪ɔpˈroəḏ]. Notes: the height of the spring tide.

Location: Lewis, Barvas
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

torr dubh

seaweed gathered at end of year and stacked on machair land left to rot and used as fertiliser for potatoes in spring.

Location: North Uist, Knockintorran
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

torranach

Notes: a small white worm which eats the roots of the oats in spring.

Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

traigh reothairt

low spring tide.

Origin: Tiree
Category: Sìde / Weather

tràill

[trɑ:lʹ] Quotation: [hɑ nə rɑ:lʹ] ‘He’s a nuisance.’ Notes: Brora – untidy person. Embo – a rascal, a nuisance. The meaning has evidently shifted in Embo. Kenneth MacKay, Gate St., Embo, gave ‘rascal’ as the translation. Source: Sandy MacKay, Hall St., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

ìobaidh

Quotation: Brora: [i:bi], Embo: [hibɑɡ] – a push, a swing. [hor dɔ̃ i:bi/hibɑɡ] ‘Give me a push (on the swing), give me a swing (on the arm).” Notes: Embo people don’t know the form without h-, Brora vice versa. Source: Mrs John MacRae, 12 Moray Terrace, Brora and Kenneth MacKay, 16 Gate Street., Embo. Date: spring 1968.

Location: Sutherland [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

òganach

Notes: the young shoot as it appears in spring on the branch of a tree.

Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous

“laigadal”

the red tangle with long red fronds only obtained at spring tides – ( traigh “laingadal” [sic]). Generally used for turnip manure.

Origin: Assynt, Stoer
Category: Àiteach / Agriculture

“spring-tooth”

Category: Àiteach / Agriculture