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burr‑, as in burr’caid, clumsy person, burr’ghlas, a torrent of rage, etc, seems from borr, great, excessive, q.v. Burr’sgadh, a burst of passion, may be from Eng. borasco, squall of wind.
bùrt, mockery; from Sc. bourd, M. Eng. bourd, jest, Fr. bourde, a lie.
bururus, infant lisping, warbling, purling; cf. Eng. purr and purl (Skeat). Evidently onomatopoetic.
bus, a mouth, kiss, Ir., M. Ir. bus, *bussu‑; Pre-Celt. ꬶuss‑; Teut. kuss, Ger. küssen, kiss, Eng. kiss (Kluge). Bezzenberger cfs. Lit buczúti, kiss; others give buc-sa, allied to Lat. bucca, cheek.
busgadh, dressing; from the Sc., Eng. busk.
busgaid, a bustle (M‘D.); formed from Eng. busy; cf. Ag. S. bysgu, business.
bustail, puffing, blowing (Heb.); from bus.
butadh, a push; see putadh.
butag, oar pin; see putag.
bùth, a shop; from the Eng. booth, Norse búð, shop, root bhu, be. See bothan.
buthainnich, thump, thrash, bang; from the root bhud, beat (Eng. beat)? See next.
buthuinn, long straw for thatch; cf. sputhainn, straw not threshed, but seedless (Arg.), which seems from spoth.
butrais, butarrais, a mess:
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c', for co, cia, who, what, q.v.
cà, ca, where, Ir. cá, how, where, who; a by-form to cia, cè, q.v.
cab, a gap, indentation, mouth, Ir. cab, mouth, head, gap, cabach, babbling, indented. The word is borrowed from two English words—gap and gab (M.E. gabben, chatter); G. has also gab, directly from gab of the Sc. Hence cabach, gap-toothed.
càbag, a cheese; Sc. cabback, kebbock. The latter form (kebbock) is probably from a G. ceapag, cepag, obsolete in G. in the sense of “a cheese”, but still used for the thick wooden wheel of wheel-barrows; it is from G. ceap. Sc. cabback is a side form of kebbock, and it seems to have been re-borrowed into G. as càbag. the real G. word for “a cheese” is now mulachag.
cabaist, cabbage, Ir. gabáisde; from the Eng.
càball, a cable, Ir. cabla; from Eng. cable, which, through Fr., comes from Lat. capulum.
cabar, a rafter, caber, deer’s horn, Ir. cabar, W. ceibr, rafters, O. Br. cepriou, beams; from a Med. Lat. *caprio, a rafter, capro, caprones (which exists as a genuine 8th century word),
