Studies in Lowland Scots/Glossary

by James Colville

 

VII.—GLOSSARY

SCOTS SECTION

To confine within reasonable compass the huge mass of vocables and phrases introduced into the text, a selection has been made. As the whole aim of the volume is to interest the reader in the Scots Vernacular, this element has been made the dominatn feature of the list. Thus Scots head-words are given in italic. Words, also, of which the origin is not indicated are to be taken as Scots. Italicised words are to be considered cognates with each other or with the word under which they are place. Only such words as are held to be cognate with Lowland Scots have their linguistic origin noted thus—E.=English, G.=Gothic, Du.=Dutch, C. Du.=Cape Dutch, Da=Danish, Fr.=Frisian, Ic.=Icelandic, N.=Norse. To these add local varieties of Scots, such as Orc.=Orcadian, Cu.=Cumberland, No.=Northumberland, North=Northern, Ab.=Aberdeen, Mo.=Moray, Kinc.=Kincardine. Relationship with these emphasises the essentially Teutonic character of the Scots Vernacular. Outside this circle are noted Celtic (Ga.=Gaelic) and French (F.), illustrative of external influences of historical interest. Scarcely any references have been made to general Ind.-Ger. affinities in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Semitic. Obvious contractions are or.=origin, obsc.=obscure, prob.=probably, conn.=connected, cog.=cognate, perh.=perhaps.

 

Dictionaries Consulted—

New English or Oxford Dict.—as yet published, ending with "Ribaldously," excepting O and P—referred to as N.E.D.—Editors, Sir James Murray, LL.D., and William Craigie, LL.D.

Skeat's Philological—Sk.

Skeat's Moeso-Gothic Glossary—Sk.

Jamieson's Scottish—Jam.

Klüge's German Etymological—Kl.

Edmonton's Orcadian Glossary—Ed. or Shet.

Gregor's Buchan Dialect—Bu.

Prevost's Cumberland Glossary—Cu.

MacBain's Celtic—MacB.

Jakobsen's Shetland Dialects.

 

Annotation, more or less complete, have been made on many of the words. These take the place of what might have been footnotes throughout the text. Wherever, too, the explanations, or conjectures in tracing to their sources words occurring in the text, have failed to find support from authorities quoted, such discrepancies have been clearly marked by a † on the left, so that the reader can at once check all doubtful statements. Such annotations are entirely supplementary to the discussion of the word in the text.

With regard to the dictionaries referred to above, the permanent value of Professor Wright's monumental work, the English Dialect Dictionary, must be gratefully acknowledged, but for the special purpose of my subject it could be of no great service. It could have furnished many variants, but such investigation lay quite outside my plan. More to the purpose was Jamieson's Dictionary, but its well-known faults of matter and arrangement seriously hamper the student. A thorough and well-informed report on "Jamieson," the outcome of long-continued annotation, was contributed several years ago to the "Glasgow Herald" by the late Mr. J. B. Fleming. These notes form one of the most valuable contributions to the study of the Scots Vernacular. I have made use of them wherever they had a bearing on the contents of the "Glossary," where they are initialled J. B. F. I have also incorporated passages illustrating "Jamieson," culled from time to time by Mrs. David Murray of Cardross, an ardent enthusiast in such old-world lore.

This is not a "glossary" in the usual acceptation of the term, since it mainly gives references to the explanations in the text and not merely meanings. Its additional illustrations and fresh gleanings, it is hoped, will give it a value in itself.

 

A^[1]

• A, 79, 80, 81, 111, open name sound, as for ea (Ir.) in great; shut sound, Sc. Ital.; light, as final; broad in Loth.
• †Aacht, 12, possession. Eng. aught, Go. aiht-s, from agan to owe; not connected with Go. waiht-s.—N.E.D.
• Aba, 22, Go. adv. suff.
• Abba, 18, Go. father; Greek
• Abr-aba, 22, Go. ably, from abrs, strong; able is of Fr. or.
• Ace, aiss, 135, ashes, Go. azgo, 25, N. aske; hence the Sc.; cf. buss for bush
• Acorn, 19
• Action words, 194
• Adduced, 72, Sc. law term
• Adna, 20, for Sans. anna, food, rice; lit. what is eaten.
• Advocate, 72, Sc. law term
• Aetes, 19, A.S. aetes tilian, to get food; aet, food; Go. at-isk. See aits
• Af-haims, 25, Go. from home, Sc. hame, haim-s, a village (Go.)
• Af-hwapjan, 48, Go. to choke; var. of hwopjan, to boast, whoop
• Af-wairpands, 33, Go.; Ger. werfen, Eng. warp, AS. wearp, Go. wairp-an, to throw; cf. moodie-wurt, the mole
• Agis, 30, 51, 255, Go. awe, ugly, ugsome, which see
• Ahmins, 26, Go. spirit, ἄημα
• Ahwos, 19, Go. floods of rain, Lat. aqua, from Go. ahwa, water
• Aihwus, 21, 250, Go. horse, Lat. equus, in aihwa-tundja, 21, the burning bush; lit. the sharp, swift one; Lat. acer, sharp; Gael ech, N. ehwa
• Ain, 32, Go. ain, Eng. one, a, an
• Air, 28, Go., or Se. ere, early
• Airth, 11, Go. airtha, earth, Du. aarde, Sc. yird
• Ais, 26, Go. brass, coin, Lat. aes; a borr. word.
• Aithei, 18, Go. mother
• Aits, oats, 20, 23, Go. at-isk for σπόριμον, a field of corn, root eat. See aetes
• Aix, aex, 26, Go. akwizi, axe. In a North. gloss. on Lu. iii. 9; Go. akwizi is A.S. aex
• Aiza-smitha, 26, 259, Go. copper-smith; lit. iron-smith
• Akran, 19, 20, 48, 252, Go. fruit, der. from akrs=field, acre; cf. AS. “aecyres lilian,” flowers of the field; also acorn, fruit in general, not from oak, but from AS. aecer, a field, for akern or acern
• Aleph, 10, 21, eleph, Heb. ox, hence alphabet. See elephant, ulbandus
• Alids, 56, Go. fatted (calf), aljan, to nourish, Lat. alere
• Alleys, 187, Cu.
• Alongst, 89, 90, for alongest, an emphatic form treated as a superlative, obsolete in Eng.
• Alphabet, 21
• Amsa, 17, Go. the shoulder, prob. misreading for ahsa, ox-ter, O.H.G. ahs-ala, 253
• An-an, 31, 255, Go. to breathe, only in us-anan, to expire. See aynd, eend, anst
• Anda-wleizn-s, 18, Go. countenance, O.E. and-wlita, O.N. and-lit, M.E. anleth—Northern. N.E.D. quotes from Beowulf and Rushworth Gospels. See wleiz
• Anent, 94, Sc. legal term, with final t in Eng. as early as 1200, but long obsolete; O.Sax. an eban, Ger. neben for en-eben
• Anes errand, 137, going as a special message, anes=once, poss. used as adv.; Cu. anes-eerant, 167
• Annatto, 233, native Amer. name, var. anatta, annatto. [Misplaced at p. 233, not Sc. Fr.]
• Anst, 31, Go. grace, favour, from an-an, to breathe; Ger. Gunst is for ge-unst, O.H.G. anst. See anan, usanan, eend
• Antarin, 48, Go. anthar, Ger. ander, ither
• Apple-reengie (g hard), 119, Artemisia abrotonum, Linn., lit. the plant which saves from death. Introd. from France in Qu. Mary's time. Abrotonum in O. F. abroigne, avroigne, ivrogne (dial.), which last is the Aberd. iveringie. The modern pp is a harking back to the ab of abrotonum, immortal
• Arbi, 26, 247–8, Go. heritage, Ger. erfe, A.S. yrfe, an heir, Gael. earb, trust, akin to ὀρφανός, Lat. orbus, Eng. orphan, Sc. orpiet; with a Go. der. arbja. Grimm connects Go. arbaiths, toil, Ger. Arbeit, O.H.G. arapeit. See erp, orpiet, arpiet
• Argie-bargie, 92, argle-bargle, argue, wrangle
• Argues, 92, proves
• Ar-jan, 23, 245, 252, Go. erien, M.E., E. to ear
• Ark, 24, a chest
• Arka, 24, Go. meal-ark in Sc., borr. from Lat. arca, arceo, to guard
• Arms, 29, Go. poor, Ger. arm
• Arpiet, erpit, stunted, starved, akin to Go. arbi, arbja, A.S. yrfe, Du. erf, Lat. orbus and orphan. See also arbi
• Article (def.), 39, 171; art. as t'
• As, 90, after comparatives, a worn-down form of all-so; cf. Ger. als, in Scots sense
• As, 89, relative
• Asans, 23, Go. harvest; asneis, a hired servant
• Asilu-quairnus, 24, Go. ass-quern, asilu-s, A.S. esol, Du. ezel, Ger. Esel—borr. from Lat. asinus, with l for n; quairnus, a hand-mill, Ic. kvern, from root of corn. See quern
• †Ask, 149, 252, wet or water newt; apparently a worn-down form of O. E. áthexe, Ger. Eidechse; N.E.D. Not connected with the river name, Esk, water (Gael.)
• At, 89, prep.
• At for rel. that, 39, 63, 69, 87, 168, 170
• 'At hoo, 40, 168, how that
• Atta, 2, 18, 246, Go. father, attâ, aithei.
• Att-ila, 2, little father, Go.; Gael. oide, foster and god-father
• 'At weel, 168,=Ger. ja wohl
• Auga-dauro, 25, Go. window; lit. eye-door
• Augo, 17, Go. eye, Lat. oculus
• Auhns, 24, Go. oven, Sc. oon, as Arthur's Oon, near Falkirk, now destroyed; auhn-s preserves the Teut. base; uhna, A.S. ofnet, a little pot, shows the radical sense
• Auhsus, 21, Go. ox, lit. the carrier. The long vowel (o-ax) in Sc. preserves the orig. guttural
• Aurti-gards, 26, Go. vineyard, exact equivalent of orchard, for ort-yard, wort being plant in general
• Aurtja, 23, 26, Go. a husbandman, Eng. worts, orts, roots
• Auso, 12, 17, Go. ear, Lat. auris
• Averse, 89, to or from
• Awe, 51, Go. agan, to caiise to fear, agis, awe, ugsome
• Awi-str (fold), 21, 250, awe-thi, Go. cog. Eng. ewe
• Awn, 20, Eng. ear of corn, Go. ah-s, ah-ana, chaff—"the little sharp thing," Lat. acus, a needle
• Awsome, 98
• Azjin, 211, C. Du.; cf. eysell (Hamlet)

 

B

• Baas, 207, C. Du., Amer.–Eng. boss. N. E. D. says, supposed cog. with Ger. Base, female cousin, baas, master, both arising out of dialect child-words for father (badar) in various familiar senses
• Baasht plooms, 110, bruised, perh. N., but possibly onomatop.
• Bab, 114, to close, Ayr.
• Bachelor's buttons, 121
• Back o' beyont, 168
• Bad, 56, Go. pret, bidjan, to pray; cf. to bid one's beads or prayers, from Go. bida, a prayer or bead
• Baikie, in coo-baikie, 131, 147, piece of wood fastening cows in stall
• †Bain, 156, 230, bainne (Gael.), milk, MacB. Ir. banne, a drop, Sl. banja, a bath, Eng. bath. N. E. D. says bath not conn. with bain, but is Ger. bähen, cog. fovere, orig. idea=heat; no Gael. conn.
• Bairn, bairnie, bairnlie, 2, 19, 24, 32, 56, 66, 69, barn-ilo, Go. from bear, "We're aw Joahn Tamson's bairns," O. E. beam, Go. "Thata barn, Jesu"
• Bairseag, 151 (Gael.), a scold, N. berj-a, to strike, cog. birr, birrle
• Baitr-aba, 22, 30, 87, Go. bitterly
• Balm, 121, balsam (flower)
• Bands, 75, necktie of a beneficed or "placed" clergyman.—Not in Jam.
• Bandster, 177, Fi.
• Banewort, 177
• Bannock, 150, 183, Gael, bannach; bunnock, 107, Lat. panicium, panis, bread
• Banst-s, 24, Go. a barn, O.E. *bos, O. N. bás-s, E. boosy, M. E. bosig, a cow-stall, O. T. *banso-z, Ger. Banse
• Baps and beer, 129, 177, baps, a thick cake, generally with yeast in it
• Barefit broth, 156, made with a little butter or dripping, but without meat
• Bare-gorp, 181 (Cu.), a nestling bird. See gorbet
• Barley-break, 155
• Barley me that, 173, Cu., syn. of chaps me
• Barrin-oot, 186
• †Bauch, 12, 86, 129, dulled, as ice after thaw, synon. wauch; perhaps O. N. bagr, awkward, N. Eng. baff. "not Go. bauths, deaf."—N. E. D.; weak, pithless, bauths. Go. deaf; ch sometimes interchanges with th; Go. bauths not under bauch in N. E. D., but cf. sense in Go. banth wairthan, 12, to become worthless
• Bauchles, 208
• Bauckie, 18, 154, bawki-bird, bak, baukie—

"The laverock and the lark, the bawkie an' the bat,
The heather bleet, the mire snipe:
Hoo mony birds is that?"J. B. F.

• Baudrons, 68, 135, pussy—

"Here baudrons sits and cocks her head"

"Old Ball."

⁠Gael. beadrach, a playful girl; beadradh, a fondling

• Bauks, 131, 140, 151, dividing ridges between fields, left in grass; com. Teut. O. N. bjalki, a beam; also a weigh-beam—

"Give your neebor the cast o' the bauk."

Hugh Miller.

• Bauld, balths, 14, Go. bold, Ger. bald, quickly
• Bawsent, 223
• Be, bi, 52, 62, Ger. bei, E. by
• Bead, beadsman, 56, Go. bidjan, to pray
• Beaked, 122, basked; bekand, 62, may be only a form of bask, which again is a variant of bath.—N. E. D. Beck, to bathe, Roxb.—Jam. Beek, beik—

"While the sun was beakin' warm and bonnie,
Owre the haughs and holms o' the Garnock."

Duguid. (J. B. F.)

• Beal, 139 (suppurate), var. of boil, Ic. bola, a blain, Du. buil, Ger. Beule, Go. uf-bauljan, to puff up
• Beam, 20, 26, 197, boom, Du. boom, A. S. beam. Go. bagm-s, a tree
• Bear, 38, to carry; Go. bairada, bairanda, bairan, passive; from bairan, to bear, or carry
• Bear, bere, 20, 23, 200, 212, the coarse variety of bar-ley; Go. bari-zevas, made of barley
• Beck, 204, E., from N. bekk-r, Du. beek, Ger. Bach=brook
• Beds, 127, child's game
• Beenin, 149 (Buch.) to beene, make the staves of a barrel swell by steeping. See Go. bulna, to swell.—Jam.
• Beese, 167, Cu., Sc. beas', pi. of beast
• Beeter, 183, Cu., beetin' stick, Cu.
• Beets, 183, lit. makes bet-ter, mends the fire
• Begoud, 36, 89, past of Eng. began, 92
• Begowk, 128, 150, Sc. "For he meets wi' a great begeck frae empty binks." Jam. begeik, begink, begunk; prob. under influence of "gowk," the cuckoo; Ab. begeck, Bu. begyte
• Beiks, bikes, 124, 157

"Thrang as bumbees frae their bikes,
The lauds an' lasses loup the dykes."

• †Beist, 32, 132, comm. Teut., or. obsc. Du. and Ger. beist; Fris. bjüst—"beitan, bite," not conn.—N. E. D.
• Bend-leather, 134, for soles of boots
• Bennert, 177, Nithsd.
• Berry, 25, 26, Go. basi, in weina-basi, the grape
• Besom, 85, 137, a broom, O. Fris. besma; Ger. Besen. As an opprobrious epithet strictly Sc. "A. S. besma, Go. bisma; cf. Lat. ferula."—Kl.
• Bethel, beadle, 14, 73; betheral, 118. Bedellus is the Latinised form. O. E. bydel; from Go. biudan, to offer
• Bet-ter, 29, batiza, batists, Go. better, best
• Beut-money, 26, 130, 186, buit, Go. bôta, advantage, good; Eng. to boot
• Bew, 81 (Lan.) blue
• Bewray, 30 (Bible), Go. wrohjan
• Bid, 56, to order, combines two originally distinct verbs—(1) O. E. beodan, Go. biudan, to command; Sc. bode, an offer at an auction; Baidjan, 56, is for biudan. (2) O. E. biddan. Go. bidjan, pray, ask urgently, Sc. bedesman
• Bide, 33, 90, Go. beidan; bide=stay; also endure, tolerate
• Bien, 136, 174, Eng. dial. bain; O. N. beinn, straight, hospitable
• Big ha'—Bible, 219
• Bike, 124
• Billy, 173 (Borders), companion

"Ye are a lad, ye are but bad,
An' a billie to his son a canna be."

"Bord. Minstr."

⁠familiar form of Willy.—N. E. D.

• Bine, 209, Lan.
• Binnd, 36, Go. bindan, to bind
• Birk, birch, 252
• Birley-man, 64, from byrlaw, burlaw, the law of the baer (Ic.) or village community
• Birse, 134, 151, bristle

"The elshin, the lingle, and the birse!"

"Souters o' Selkirk."

• Birssy, 63, irascible, Gael. bairseag, a scold
• Birsling sun, 122, scorching. Jam. birsle, brissle, to parch by fire. A. S. brastl, glowing, brastlian, to burn. "I trained on birsled peas and whisky."—"Tom Cringle's Log." (J. B. F.)
• Bi-sunja, 33, Go. See san, sooth
• Bit, 94, a bit bread
• Bite, 32, Go. beitan, to bite
• Bittock, 86 (dimin.)
• Bi-waibjan, 26, Go. to weave. Root general over Ind.–Ger. tongues, evidence of high antiquity of the art
• Black-a-vised, 61, dark visaged
• Blad, 197, C. Du. leaf in general; cf. "Ilka blade o' gress"
• Blate, 86, 137, bashful. Go. bleiths, 32

"An' leukit feel blate."⁠

"Christmas Ba'ing."

⁠"Ye're no blate," by litotes, insolent

• Blawin, 134, boasting, from blowing (fig.)
• Blowans haithjos, 23, Go. flowers of the field, blooms of the heath
• Blinnd, 18, blind, blinds, Go. blind
• Bocht, bauhta, 12, Go. pret. of bugjan, to buy
• Bob of flowers, A, 174, Cu., of unknown or.; perhaps conn. with Gael. baban, babag, a tassel; pab, flax refuse; O. Ir. popp, a bunch
• Bodach, 63, 177, Gael. a silly person, a carle, Sc. a buddie
• Bodd'm, 167, Cu. and Sc.
• Bogle, 18, 256, bugbear, goblin; in Sc. lit. since 1500: of uncertain origin.—N. E. D.
• Boka, 39, Go. book, bokareis, scribes, bookers
• Bole, 171, boal, small recessed cupboard in a wall. Or. unknown
• Bolner, 149, Ic. to swell. See beal, bullerin
• Bond, 72, Sc. law term, mortgage
• Bone, 124 (Ger. Bein), Eng.
• Boolie-backit, 88, Sc. hump-backed
• Booly hole, 171, Cu. var. of bole
• Boost, 102, buist, behoved, under necessity to; also bu'd, had to

"Twa ells o' plaiden bude be bocht."

• Booth, 24, binds, Go. the table, booth, Ger. Bude—root, to build
• Bour-tree, boon tree, 123, 124, the elder. "Uncert. der.—bore inconsistent with earliest and dialect forms; bower answers phonetically, but unlikely with regard to sense; bound-tree, from marking boundaries."—N. E. D. This last a mere guess
• Boutent, bowden, 147, to swell; nothing like it in Jam. or N. E. D.
• Bower, 200, a farmer, on steelbow system, bow, O. N. bú, farming, farm stock, Ger. Bau, Bauer, C. Du. Boer
• Bowie, 156
• Braffin, 187, a horse-collar
• Brags, 128, Eng. brag, not in Jam.
• Braxy, 207, a disease in sheep; prob. conn. with break; A. S. broc, disease
• Brecham, 130, 187, E. dial. bargham; perh. O. E. beorgan, to protect with hame, q. v.

"A brecham and a cardin' clout."

"Jac. Ball."

• Bredd, broad, 29, 32, Go. braid-s
• Bree, brü, brye, 114, var. of brizz, bruise
• Bree, 203, brow, " Bree-bree brenty," &c.
• Breed shouder, 207, C. Du. broad shoulder
• Breest, 17, Go. brusts, breast
• Brether (as pl. for brother; long obsolete), 102; Shet. breder
• Bricht, 12, Go. bairhts, bright
• Bride, bruth-faths, 18, Go. lord of the bride. See faths
• Bring, 10, Go. briggan
• Brintlin, 145, Mo. a form of brunt, Eng. burnt; not in Jam.: bruntlin is a burnt moor (Buchan)
• Britchen, 130, a piece of horse harness, poss. from breech
• Brither, brothar, 18, Go. brother
• Brizz, 97 (bruise), O. E. brysan, to crush
• Broch, 25, a burgh, a pledge, bairgan, Go. guard, preserve; baurgs, a town; O. N. borg, a castle; Go. baurgs-waddjan, town-wall
• †Brochen, 158, 160, Mo. porridge, Ir. brochan, cog. broth.—MacB. "Not cog. with broth."—N. E. D.
• Brock, 29, 206, O. E. ge-broc, E. dial. brock, a fragment, Du. brok, Go. bruko—from "break;" fish offal, Shet.; to do work unskilfully—"A widna hae that tailyor; he brooks sae muckel claith."—Gregor
• Brock, 105, a badger; brokkit, 163, speckled. N. E. D. sub brock, badger, Gael. broc, prob. cog. φορκος, grey, white, the "speckled"
• Brokkit, 163, "a briekit sheep, dark, with white legs and belly."—Edm.
• Brom, 221, C. Du. cog. with Sc. barm
• Brook, 34, enjoy, endure, Go. brukjan, Ger. brauchen. Bruik, bruke, brook—bruk not in Jam. "Margaret Loif gevin license to marry Andro Flemyn, and bruk the twa merk land in Scheddylstoun."—"Glas. Rental Book." (J. B. F.)
• Broom, 81, Eng. (brougham)
• Broon kaidis, 138, bronchitis
• Broose, race of, 201, mounted party at a country wedding; "of uncertain origin."—N. E. D.
• Brucks, 206, Orc. fish offal. See brock
• Bubbly jock, 130, the turkey, Sc. bubble, to blubber
• Bu'd to be. See boost
• Bugjan, 12, Go. to buy
• Buicht, 65, Border, sheep-pen

"O, the ewe buchts are bonnie,
Baith e'enin' and morn."

• Bull-baiting, 188, "Shak t' bull-ring," Cu.
• Bull Ring, 189
• Bullerin out, 149, 150, O. Fr. bullir, to boil.—N. E. D. M. E. bolne. Da. bolne, to swell. See bolner
• Bultong, 207, C. Du.
• Bun—bunach, boon, 124; Gael. bun tata, potato, from E. MacB. says it contains folk-etym. in bun, a root. A. S. bune, stalk, reed, prob. cog.; root bbu, to grow, φύω; Ger. Beule, a swelling
• Bunker, 102, cog. with bunk, bank, bench; not in Jam.
• Bun-wed, -wede -weed, 123, 148
• Burg, broch, burgh, 25, Go. baurgs, bairgan
• Burneywin, 173, burn-the-wind, the blacksmith
• Burr on the Borders, 111, 171
• †Bush, 207, box in centre of a wheel in which the axle works, Sw. hjul-bössa, wheel-bush; not conn. with boss.—N. E. D.
• But and ben, 176, for be-out and be-in; cf. Du. Buiten-hof and Binnen-hof, at The Hague
• "Butter and bread," 92
• By, 90, Sc. after comps.
• By ordinar thrang, 127
• Byspel, 182, Cu.

 

C

• C. Dutch, affinities with German, 195, 215, 216
• Caber, 67, MacB.—cabar, a rafter.
• Caddle, 102. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
• Cailleach, 154, Gael. old wife, nun, the "veiled one;" cog. Lat. pallium, a pall. Caillie, cowl, Lat. cucullus, Sc. cool
• Caird, 153, 154, a gipsy, tinker, Gael. Sc., in borrowing, has debased the orig. sense of art, craft; var. kyaird
• Cairl, carle, 163, O. N. karl. Go. kêrel, a man, churl
• Cairneedy, 133, Bu. carneed, crine, to shrivel. Not in Jam. or N. E. D. MacB. has crannadh, withering, shrivelling, Ir. crannda, decrepit, from cran, tree, running to wood. Jam. has a var.—cranshach
• Cairrit, 91, var. of carried, fig. used
• Caker, 104, Forf.; not in Jam. or N. E. D.; prob. from cake
• Callow spyugs, 176, unfledged sparrows
• Calm souch, 216, sigh, with guttural sounded
• Camanachd, 127, Ga., the "crooked thing," cam, bent; camag, a club, camas (Cambus), a bay
• Candlemass cock fight, 151
• Cannas, cannis, 70, 148, Bu.
• Cannis-breid, 148, from canvas
• Cantertup, 159, for cantrips, charm, trick

"Here Mausy lies, a witch that for sma' price,
Can cast her cantrips, an' gie me advice."

"Gentle Shepherd."

• Cappie, 204, dim. of cup; Bu. "He's as fou's cap or stoup'll mak him."—Gregor
• Carblin, 102, from carble, carb, O. N. karpa, to brag; cf. carp; Bu. wrangling, followed by wi', if a person, and, aboot, if a thing.
• Carcidge, 102, carcase
• Carl-doddy, 154, the plaintain; carl, in sense of "male" in plant names; dod, anything ball-like; carl-hemp, hemp, 163, male flower of; curl-doddy, naturally clever (Shet.). See also ourly-doddy
• Carn, 133, to soil, Bu. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
• Carrick, 99, 127, 140, Fi. shinty or hockey stick, form of crook
• "Carrick for a man," 107
• Carsackie, cirsackie, 102, workman's coarse blouse; cirrseckie (Fi.)
• Cast up, 92, 178, to rake up the past, to throw
• Cattle beass, 35, 71, 167, cattle beast, cf. bees, Cu.
• Cauf, 21, calf. Go. kalbo; chaff is similarly sounded in Sc.
• Caum-staned, 169, pipe-clayed
• Cayshin, cayshner, 72, 103 (caution, cautioner), Sc. law
• Challenge, 87, 92, Sc. law
• Champet, 88, 129, mashed, champ from an original chamb, identical with jam and jumble, imitative of action of chewing.—N. E. D.
• Chapel of Ease, 144, quoad sacra, supplementary to parish church
• Chaps me! chops me! 102, 127, 173, from chap, chaup, to fix upon by selection; "Belg. kippen, to choose;" cog. with cheap, chapman. "Jam. I. 409, but chap only, not the phrase." (J. B. F.)
• Char, 78, for jar, by a Gaelic speaker
• Charlock, 64, E. Sinapis arvensis, O. E. cerlic; or. unknown
• Chattel, 71, E.
• "Cheatery's choket you," 127, cheating=Nemesis
• Cheef, 127, very friendly; chief, 136. Not in N. E. D.
• Cheesies, 186, Fi. cheese biscuits
• Chekis of the yett, 62, door-posts, cheeks (Barb.)
• "Che vor' ye," 38, Lear.
• Chield, 14, 68, generally bairn in Sc.; O. E. cild, Go. kilthei, womb, child, chiel, a variant
• Chiels, 175, fellows
• Childer, 102, children (O. Sc.)
• Chin, 17, Ga., kinnus, chin-cough=kin-cough, Sc. kink-hoast
• Chitterlings, 130, E. smaller intestines of pig, &c.; or. doubtful
• Chows, 102, 135, 140, small coal (Fi.); not in N. E. D.
• Chree, 83, Sc. dial. for three
• Chuck, 174, Cn., Lan.
• Chufty, 118, 173, Cu. chuffy, chaff, plump-cheeked, or. obs.; prob. a var. of chafts, the jaws and chew
• Chun, 174, Cu.
• Cip, 102, play truant, common Lan. and the West, also kip. Not in Jam. or N. E. D.
• Clabby-dhu, 116, black clab or mussel. In the 17th cent. they were sought for, under this name, in the bed of the Clyde opposite Glasgow Green.
• Clack, 102, 185
• Clagum, 130, treacle-toffee, clag; Da. klag, sticky mud, clay, clog, Klecks, a blot (Sc. blob) of ink, is a compar. modern usage in Ger.; clocks, milk boiled till it acquires a dark colour and peculiar taste (Shet.)
• Claise, 53, clothes
• Claith, 53, cloth
• Claty, 115, var. clarty, clorty, simpler forms clat, clot. "Gavell of house east side Saltmarket of catt (for clat) and clay."—"Gl. B. Recs.," 1692. A road-scraper is still called a clatt in Glasgow; klurt, a lump, also to daub (Shet.)
• Clashing, 137, gossip, an echoic word
• Cleckine, 32, 130, litter of rabbits or brood of birds, Fi., O. N. Klekja, Da. klackke, to hatch; cf. cletch, clutch, cleokin, "a brood of chickens, is given in Jam. but not clatchin, a common form." (J. B. P.)
• Cled, cleddit, 53, clothed
• Clerk, 4, 109, scholar
• Clet, clett, 152, O. N. klett-r, a sea cliff. Da. klint, a flinty rock
• Cliob, 147, Gael. cliobach, cliobag; cliobeag, a filly
• Clip, 147, Mo., a hoyden, Ab. clippy, Fi. pert
• Clippy, 128. See Clip.
• Clip-shears, 122, 149; O. N. klipp-a, to cut with scissors; "prob. ident. with L. Ger. klippen, to make a sharp sound, to clap."—N. E. D.
• Cloth, 94, idiom
• Cloor, 139, 152, a blow or its mark. O. N. klor, a scratch; klo-a, claw.
• Clooty, 152, clootie, the Devil as cloven-footed. Perh. from claw; Du. klauwtje, little claw, ankle bones, hoof
• Clüte, 152, 219, or. sense, firm lump, clump, ball; Du. kloot, a ball; Ger. Klosz

"Six guid fat lambs I sald them ilka clute."

"Gentle Shepherd."

• Clyaoh, 154, Gael. See caillach
• Clypes, 128, Lan. tittle-tattle; or. doubtful. (?) A. S. clypian, to speak
• Coal-rees, 121, Lan. coal depots, bings. "A sheep-ree or fold (Loth.); rae, wrae, cattle-yard; ree, reed (Fi.), do."—Jam.
• Cöb, cop, cup, 175, 204
• Cobble, 175, dim. of cob, small, water-worn stone
• Cobbling, 175, Cu. poaching term
• Cobble-hole, 175
• Coddis, 58, husks, pillow. N. koddi, a pillow; Da. kodde, a bag, kudda. Orc.
• Cod-out, 58, to shake out—said of over-ripe pods
• Cod-ware, 58, pillow-slip; A. S. waer, pillow-cod
• Coern, 80, 94, 171, corn; Cu. cworn
• Coffin trams, 118, poles bearing the coffin
• Colies, 146, Mo. prob. Ic. kollr, round-head, a hay-cock
• Come o' wills, 189, Cu.
• Complainers, 72, appellants, Sc. law
• Compound tense, 37, Go.
• Con, 184, obs. the squirrel
• Condescends, 72, Sc. law
• Conjugational or simple passive, 37
• Contermashous, contumacious, 84, 136
• Conventional address, 207
• Convey, 72, Sc. legal term
• Coo, 68, cow
• Coo baikie, 140, 147, Fi. See baikie, 147
• Cool, 81, a cap, var. of cowl, hat, cucullus. See caillach
• Coo-lickt, 189, hair that would part in one line only. Jam. has only cow-lick, in above sense
• Coom, 135, Fi. coal-dust; O. N. kain, film of grime; Shet. koom, anything much broken, coal, biscuits, &c.; var. goom, 114
• Coom-ceiled, 128, Fi. arched or rounded top; said of a garret room; cog. Eng. coomb, a small valley.—N. E. D.
• Coonts, 134, counts, sums
• Coordie, 128, coward
• Coorie hunker, 129, Lan. cower, and hunker, to squat down on haunches
• Coosie, 128, Forf.
• Cop, 204
• Corks, 105, 112
• Correlation of adjectival clauses, 39
• Corruptions of the Taal, 216
• Coterie words, 109
• Cothie-juke, cothie-guckie, 151, Mo.
• Cothie, coothie, 68, 86, 137, 151, couthie, only in Sc., akin to O. E. cúth, from cunnan, to know, familiar, affable. Go. kunds, known, Ger. kundig, couthie; cf. kythe, known, uncouth, unco

"Ilj couthie word."—"Wh. Binkie."

• Gotten, 94, get on well together.—Swift
• Cot-toon, 65, ploughmen's row of houses at a farm
• Couatit, 58, coveted
• Coup, 97
• Cran, 207. See kraan
• Craobh, 67, Gael. a tree, the "split-table" one
• Crap-wa', 128. See coom-ceiled
• Crave, 88, to dun, for a debt
• Craw-flee, 127, Fi. a boy's game, crow-fly
• Creesh, 63
• Creuve, cruive, cruve, 67, 174, criv in Bu.; Northern only: a hovel, sty, salmon-trap; akin corf, a bfisket, Ger. Korb. "Ane schiep criff (pen) bigit on the Gallow Hill hot licence of the town," 1628.—"Banff Records."
• Crine, 133, app. Gael. crion, little, withered, crined, shrunken.—N. E. D. MacB.—"Root kre appears to belong to root ker, to destroy, as in Go. hair-us, a sword;" cf. cairneedy, as verb to cause to grow stunted, "Y've crinet yir caar (calves) by spehnin thim our seen."—Gregor; creenie-crannie, the little finger (Ab.)
• Cripple, 102, lame
• Crock, 198, O. E. croc, N. krukka; Kl. connects with Ger. Krug, Du. kruik, Ic. krukka, A. S. crocca, M. E. crokke
• Crom, 62, kink, Bu. Du. kram, a hook, crook
• Crock, 198, crockery. Or. Celt. crog, crogan, a pitcher; in Eng. and Teut. generally
• Crock-werk, 198, C. Du.=crockery; cf. Du. krug, a public-house
• Crooning, 224, humming over a tune. Croon under croyn in Jam. a very unusual form; "to whine" certainly wrong; happiness and contentment implied rather. (J. B. F.)
• Crooss, 70, 86; only in Sc., from Frisian. N. Eng. crous, Du. krys, curled, Fr. krûs, curly
• Croude, 58, a fiddle; W. crwth, a violin
• Croupie, 13, croaky. Imitative conn. with crow, croak
• Cruden, crùban, 102, 116, crab or partan (Sc.). Ir. crubadh, to bend, crook, N. krjup-a, to creep, Sc. cruppen, bowed
• Crummie, 131, the "cow with the crumpled horn"
• Crummock, 107, staff with a crooked head. Gael. cromag, from crom, crooked
• Croon o' the causey, 169, centre of roadway
• Cry, 87, 92, to call, a call
• Cry on, 92
• Cuif, 136
• Cum by chance, 189, Bord.
• Cummins, 140, 175, Fi. Jam. "cumming, a vessel for holding wort." Cog. coomb, O. E. cumb, Ger. Kumme, a vessel
• Cundeth, 172, Cu. var. of condie, which see
• Curators, curátors, 80
• Curly-andrew, 123, Fi.
• Curly-doddy, 123, 163, doddy, polled, what has a rounded head, wild scabious, ribwort plantain. Children apply it to scabious or Devil's-bit—

"Curly doddy, do my biddin,
Soop my hooss and shool my midden."

"Chambers' Rhymes."

• Curn, 86, 104, 138, var. of corn.

"An' mix the gusty ingans wi' a curn o' spice."—"Gentle Shepherd."

⁠"I hae na a corn," Shet. A curney, a large number, as "a curney of piltacks" or coal-fish (Shet.)

• Cushie, 124, cushat or stock-dove
• Cuss-in, 13, cousin
• Customer (tailor), 188
• Cutchick, 129, Mo. prob. Gael. dim. cooch-ack, in dog-couch, a kennel, and syn. with chicken-cavie or hen-coop. Not in N. E. D.
• Cüte, 152, Mo., queet, Ab. Cuit, the ankle, is "not given (Jam. I. 548), and no cross-reference to coot nor cute." (J. B. F.)
• Cuttit, 88, cut
• Cutty soam, 103, North. cutty, short; subst. a wanton. See soum, seme, sime, simmins.
• Cworn, 23, 181–2, 253, Go.; later, kaurn, Cu.

D

• D, intrusive in adjectives, 195; elided, 111, 178, 210
• D in -d,-ed, 36
• Dad, 139, 174, a rough blow, a lump of anything; dawd, daud, "not given, but dodd is (Jam. II. 72), to move by succassation!" (J. B .F.)
• daddjan, 250, Go. to suck, cog. with Lat. filia
• Daffin, frolic, not in E. D. D.
• Daft, 69, imbecile. No. Go. stem dab, in ga-daban, to happen, gives daft and deft; or. sense, fit, apt, then inoffensive; cf. silly and Ger. selig.—N. E. D.
• Dags, 23, Go. day
• Daichie, 132, 172, 217, dough, duff, (dial.). Fris. deeg, Du. deg, Ger. Teig, Go. daig-s; or. sense, "what is kneaded;" Eng. doughy, pallid, deighle, a simpleton.—E. E. D. Not in N. E. D.
• Daidle, daidlie, 128, No. pinafore; cog. dawdle; dud, Gael. dud, a rag, "or. unknown."—N. E. D.
• Daiff, daubs, 18, Go. deaf, af-daubnan, to grow dull. The or. long vowel pres. in Sc.
• Daing, haing, 115, 116, minced oaths
• Dairgie, dirge, 74, 227, funeral feast. Lat. "Domine, dirige nos," in the office for the dead

"An' he helps to drink his ain draigie."

"Ballad."

• Daizter, 169, Yks., worker by day, not by piece.—E. E. D. Not in N. E. D.
• Dakshin-aranya, 245, Sans. Dakshin=Lat. dexter, right hand, and aranya, forest, jungle. The priests, worshipping the dawn in the East, had the Deccan on the right hand, hence its name, the southern forest
• Dang, 153, No.; Ic. dengja, to hammer; "a hard blow: to knock, bang."—E. E. D. Var. dung, "Ne ver (true) man shall hae the door dung in's schafts that wud be in."—"Kirk Records," 17th c. See ding and on-ding
• Dapper, 192; Du. dapper, Ger. tapfer, brave, sturdy; Dopper Boer
• Daps, 114, var. of dabs, small flounders
• Darg, 105, No. for day-wark, a job or fixed task.—E. E. D.
• Darn, 101, Am., dash, Eng.
• Daur, 25, 249, Go. door, pl. daurons
• Dauthi-dedeina, 37, Go. dauth-s, dead; in Sc. a noun, e. g. to the deid. Dedeina is here the 3rd pl. affix of the past conjunctive of the weak verb dauthjan, to kill.
• Daver, 102, stun, stupefy, stagger, for doaver, to be in a dose. O. N. dofna, Go. daubna, to become heavy, dover, to fall into a light slumber.—E. D. D. This is the usual Fife form. The daver of E. D. D. is unknown
• Daw, 136, as lazy, idle; not in Jam. "A workin' mither maks a daw dochter."—Prov. (J. B. F.) See dilly-daw
• †Dawtet, dawtie, 69, a darling, pet, petted; daut, to make much of. "Etym. unknown; conn. with dote excluded."—N. E. D.
• Deaded (me) it, 37, nursery grammar
• Deal, dealsman, 32, Go. ga-dailans. Ger. Teil, E. deal, dole
• Deas, 155, Ab. dais or settle
• Decreet, 72, Sc. law
• Dee, 39, Ir. for the
• Deef nits, 168, deaf nuts
• Deeple, 147, Mo. var. of dimple, dunt and dent; cf. Ger. Dumpfel, a pool.—N. E. D. Eng. dibble, not in E. E. D.="settin plants on the Sabbath, a devill in his hand."—"Elgin Records," 1648
• Deetin, 181, Cu., var. of Sc. dichtin
• Definite article, 45
• Deid, 37, dead, n. and v.: verb dee. O. E. déad, Du. dood, Ger. todt, O. N. dauthr, Go. dauths; afdauthjan, to put to death; "would be the deid of his wyfe."—"Elgin Records, 1699"
• Deid sweer, 137, extremely lazy, absolutely unwilling; sweer, Ger. schwer, heavy
• "Deil hait," 12, 138. Jam. hate, hait, haid, a whit, atom. Ic. haete, a particle. "The Deil haid ails you," replied James, "ye canna abide ony to be abune you."—M'Crie's "Knox." This quotation scarcely bears out the alternative explanation "Deil hae'd" (have it)
• Delate, 72, Sc. law
• Delude, 84, for dilute (malap.)
• Demonstratives, 45
• Dentals slurred, 83, 111, 178, 216
• Depone, 72, to give evidence, Sc. law term
• Depute, 72, Sc. law
• Derivative inflection, 36
• Dern, derned, dearn, 31, A. S. dark; dearn-unga, secretly. Go. ga-tarnjan, to hide, dernd, Fi., pondered, noun, dernin; O. E. dernan, Fris. dern, Teut. *darnjo, hidden, secret; verb, O. E. diernan, H. Ger. ternen; obsol. as adj., survives as v.

"This darned within my breist this mony a day."—"Gentle Shepherd."

• Descriptive epithets in Sc., 86
• Deug, 31, 206, C. Du. virtue, merit; cf. Ger. Tugend, Go. dugan
• Dialectic growth, 8
• Dicht, 70, 102, 181, Sc. to wipe up, to winnow corn. O. E. dihtan, used in many senses in O. E. and Ger.; to wipe up is sp. No.; dight, poet. Eng.; obsol. as "to prepare," cog. Ger. dichten—N. E. D.; Ger. dichter in 17th c. authors in general; A. S. dihtan, set in order, E. dight—all borr. from Lat. dictare, to dictate, compose
• Di-da, 35–36, 167, Go. reduplicating pret. of a possible verb, *dedjan, to do, ga-deds, a doing. Di-da=did. Ger. thun, That.
• Dike, 103, Ayr. a ditch, O. N. dike, Ger. Teich, a pool; sense varies bet. ditch and bank; lit. "dug or thrown up." "February fill the dike."
• Dilly-daw, 136, Sc. form of dilly-dally, as noun, in sense of untidy get-up: "a slow, slovenly person." E. E. D. has the quot. in the text
• Diminutives in Sc. and C. Du., 195
• Dimple, 147, Mo. to dint, make an impression, as of dimpling: quots. in E. D. D. are modern; none from Moray. See deeple. "Ye sudna dimple yir taties."—Gregor
• Dinna, dizna, dizn't, 168, 171, "do" with negative
• Dirdum, 150, No. "Or. unknown: not Sc. dird, a blow, consequences of error."—N. E. D. "The loon took a haud o'im, but he gae 'im a dirdum fae 'im, and ower 'e yod (gaed)."—Gregor
• Discharge, 72, Sc. law term
• Dishielogie, 123–156, Fi. tussilago or colt's-foot, dishy-lagy, Roxb.—E. D. D.
• Dius, 12, 20, 257, Go. deer, any wild animal as in Shak.
• Div and divna, 112, 167, 171, sp. Sc. also dis, disna, and dinna, for do, does not, and don't. The v here is an odd survival of an Ind.–Ger. causative formation, common in Sans., as stha, to stand, sth-ap-ayati, he causes to stand. Not in N. E. D.
• Divot, 149, Sc.; No. thin, flat piece of turf. Jam. from Lat. de-fo-dere, to dig
• Divot-fecht, 125, fight with thrown turfs; divot, origin not given in N. E. D.
• Divvel, 78, 196, devil, by a Gael. speaker. "Ministers, when they fall, are like angells that are divells."—Alex. Henderson to Gen. Ass., 1638
• Do, 206. See dow
• Do, 36, Eng. auxiliary, is not in Go. except in past tenses of weak verbs, e. g. lagi-dedjan=I lay-did, I laid, from lagjan, to lay
• Doach, 102, salmon-trap, peculiar to Gall.; or. unknown; not in E. D. D.
• Dochter, 18, 247, daughter. Go. dauhtar
• Dockens, 119, No.; O. E. doccan, Ger. Dockenblätter, Gael. dogha, burdock, anything valueless—"no worth a docken"
• Daddies, 163, polled cattle, Ab.; dod, doddy, a rounded hill (Bord.); dad, a lump, Fris. dadde, lump, bunch.—N. E. D. Abbrev. of George: not in these senses in E. D. D. See curl-doddy
• Doer, 72, Sc. law
• Doited, 110, sp. No., obtuse from age, perh. var. of doted; pron. deitit in Fi.
• Domestic series, 207
• Dool (for quoits), 131. See dules
• Dop, 222, C. Du. dop, shell, husk, cover. N. E. D., "Of Norse origin, O. N. daup." Var. doup, deep, candle-doup, Ger. Topf, a pot
• Dopper-Boer, Kirk, 192, 193, C. Du.
• Dorbie, 134, a mason, Fi., prob. akin to O. Fris. derf, Ger. derb, sturdy, O. N. thjarfr, common
• Dortin, 137, since 1500, obsc. or.; sulks, ill-humour. "Dorty Janet's pride."—Allan Ramsay
• Dorts, 69, sulks, Bu. to over-nurse—"She dorts awa at that geet o' hers, an' say gee in't feesic."—Gregor
• Dottrifeed, 151, Mo., rel. to dodder and totter, dottered, dotard, senile.—N. E. D.
• Double negative, 197
• Dough, 132, 254. Ger. Teig, Du. deeg, A. S. dah, O. N. deig; from Go. deigan, to "knead," daigs, dough. Cf. Ger. Sauerteig; cf. Lat. fingo
• Doughy, 172. See daichie
• Dow, 31, 69, 175, 206, can, No. Go. dauh, pret. *dauhta. O. H. G. *tohta; Go. dugan, Ger. taugen, Sc. docht and dought, to be good for, strong, to avail

"He downa gang to rest for his heart is in a flame."—Hogg.

• Dowie, 86, given under dolly in Jam. (II. 77). "The dowie dens o' Yarrow" is not referred to. (J. B. F.)
• Drag, 146, North, a drag-harrow
• Draigens, 127–134, K., kites, dragons
• †Drake, 251, usually interpr. as "duck-king," the d representing a radical, as seen in Du. een-d Lat. ana-t-is. Kl. says, "Ger. Enterich is the O. Teut. anut-trahho, the latter element of which being obscure in origin."
• Dree, 23, 61, Go. driugan, to serve as a soldier; ga-drauhtins, soldiers under the centurion (Matt. viii. 9); A. S. dreogan, to endure; der. dree, drow; Go. ga-drauhts, a soldier, from driugan
• Dreich, 153, No. dregh, earlier form of dree, O. E. dréogan, Go. driugan, to do military service—revived as archaism; dwarf, not conn. See driugan
• Drintin, 162, 163, Kinc. Not in N. E. D.
• Drive, dreiband, 23 (Go.), pres. part, of dreiban, to drive, O. E. drifan, Ger. treiben
• Droch, 139, dwarf. O. E. dweorh, Fris. dwirg, Ger. Zwerg, *dhwerg=σέρφος=midge, "droich, perh. metath. of duerch or similar form of dwarf; Gael. droich, borr."—N. E. D.
• Drok, 208, busy, 0. Du. See trokes
• Drorin-room, 82, Cockney
• Droshachs, 115, Celt. var. of drugs
• Drownded, 35, drowned
• Drusan, 48, Go. to fall, whence dross, drus, fall—"great was the fall (drius) thereof."—Matt. vii. 27. In N. E. D. dross cog. with Ger. driusen
• Dubs, 66, 171, 174, pools, No.; "or. uncertain."—N. E. D.
• Duchman, duckie, 155, Mo., "a small stone on a larger, and attempted to be hit off by the players"
• Duddie, 183, Cu. Cf. duds
• Duffy, 172, Cu. See daichie, doughy
• Dules, dool, dole, dulls, 106, 127, 131, 196, stone as mark, post; Ens. dôle, Du. doel, aim, butt.
• Dunderhead, 134, a blockhead: or. obsc.
• Dunt, 97, a dull blow, var. of dint; a large piece—

"Dunts o' kebbuck, taits o' 'oo,
Whiles a hen, an' whiles a soo."

• Dunter, 124, 140, Pi., eider duck, Orc.
• Dusty miller, 121, Auricula
• Dwalla, 153, Cu. to wither, dwale, O. N. dvöl, delay, Sw. dvala, a trance
• Dweeble, 86, prob. a form of Lat. debilis. Not in Jam. or Imp.
• Dwine, a dwinin, 34, fade away; O. E. dwinan, N. dvina, to vanish, Du. dwijnen

E

• E, 79, 81, 84, 110, thin sound for a; Sc. ee for i
• Ea, 180, 188, in place names
• Each, ech, 21, Gael. (war) horse. See aihwa
• †Eager, 30, not conn. with Go. ogan, to dread, but with Lat. acer, through O. Fr.
• Ear of corn, 20, So. ick-er, Ger. Ahre, Du. aar. Go. ab-s, Lat. acus. the "sharp" thing. E. and Du. drop the gutt.
• Ear, 23, 252, to plough, O. E. Go. arjan, A. S. erian, Lat. arare
• Earn, Erne, 20, as in Ger. Adler, for adel-ar, edel-ar, noble bird; or. aar in Ger. is the eagle, and still in dial. Cf. Go. ara, O. N. are, O. E. earn, Du. arend
• Eben, 171, Cu. even
• -Ed, 88 (suffix); =var. -et, -it
• Eddicate, 89, educated
• Eediwatt, 75, idiot
• Eeldin, 122, fuel. A. S. aeling, from ælan, to burn.
• Eend, end, eynd, aynd, aynd-les, 31, 234, 255, breath, from Go. an-an, which see

"An' a' wurr blithe to tak' their eind."

"Christ. Ba'in."

• -Ei, 39, 45, Go. pron. particle, Sans. ya
• Eident, 126, 161, active, diligent, or. unknown; eidentlie
• Eirn-mail, 29, rust on linen. See mail
• Eis-arn, 26, 259, iron. Du. ijzer, O. H. G. Isarn, Ger. Eisen
• Elephant, 21, 74, 105; elephant first in Edinburgh (1680). "Of the ultimate ety. nothing is really known."—N. E. D. Deriv. in text, that of the late Prof. Aufrecht, a Sanskrit scholar of European repute
• Elshon, 134. Orc. alison; E. awl, Ger. Ahle; root, Sans. ar-pa-ya, to pierce, causal of ri, to go
• Elys, 62, 251, eels (Barb.)
• E-nyuch, 13, enough; Ger. genug; Go. pref. pres. ga-nah, it suffices, ga-nohs, sufficient
• Erde, 49, earth. Also airth, yird
• Ernin, 133, rennet. M. E. rennen, to run in sense of coagulate, var. earn, yearn, A. S. yrnan, to run
• Erp, 248, to. See arbi, arpiet
• Esk, 166, river
• Esk, 149, Fi. newt
• Etter-cop, 204, the spider; etter-cap. Ger. Eiter, A. S. áttor, poison, O. N. eitr; cop, cob, a tuft, a spider, C. Du. kop, any round lump or knob
• Ettle, 75, 97. Ic. aetla, ettla, to think, determine
• Even, 88, think equal to
• Except, 90, 91
• Expiry, expiration, 92
• Expressions for small quantities, 138
• Extinguish, 72, Sc. law
• Eyme, eem, 63, 69, 71, uncle; Du. oom, A. S. éam, E. G. eme, uncle on the mother's side, Lat. avunculus, Go. *auh-aims, where h=c (Lat.). Lat. avus, Go. awo, grandmother, Ger. Oheim. See Oom Paul, 63

F

• F sound, 111
• Fa', 82, fall
• Faarar, farder, 195
• Faarder, 195, farther
• Faar-keeker, 197, C. Du.
• Fadar, 18, 247, Go. Sc. fethir, faethir, E. father
• Fadreins, 18, Go. parents
• Fael, feal, 149, 200, a sod; turf, Gael, fàl, a sod
• Faggot, 135, 182
• Fagrs, 29, Go. fair, from faih-an, to suit, Ger. fug-en, causal of fagrs=to make suitable, A. S. faegrs, fair
• Fâhan, 212, Go. to grasp, A. S. fon, vangen (Taal). Kl. "conn. of finger. Go. figgr-s, with this root fanh not certain"
• Faihu, 10, 20, 21, 250, Go. cattle, or. property in cattle. Du. vee, Ger. Vieh, Ic. fe, Sc. fe
• Fail, 72, 137, become bankrupt
• Fair horney, 127, 187, fairplay in the game of "hornie;" descr. by Jam. sub voce
• Fairzna, 18, Go. heel, Ger. Ferse, pres. only in Ger. among Teut. tongues
• Familiar epithets in Taal, Sc. and E. 194
• Familiar thou, 172
• Fani, 23, Go. fen, mud, Fr. fene, Du. veen
• Fank, 65, 212, a sheep-pen. Gael. Fang, faing, valve of a pump-well, fang, v. to catch; Ger. fangen, Go. figgrs, finger.

"He thocht the warlocks o' the rosy cross
Had fanged him in their nets sae fast."

"Bord. Minstr."

• Fanners, 146, winnowing or dichting machine, brought from Holland by Meikle, 1710
• Farm-toon, 25, 65, homestead
• Faths, 18, 24, 247, Go. lord of the feast, conn. Go. fodr, a sheath, as the protector. See Indo–Eur. preserved only in Sans., Go., and Lat., akin to fath-er. See fother
• Fauho, 20, fox, peculiarly Teut.; or. the tailed one. Sans, puccha, a tail
• Faus, 29, few. Lat. paucus, Go. fawai, pl.
• Faw, 124, 210, Ger. Falle; mooss-faw, C. Du. muis-val, N. müs-föll, mouse-fall or trap, what falls. Cf. pit-fall
• Fawmous, 175, Fi. falmishly, Cu.
• Fe, 10, 20, O. Sc. cattle; or. property in farm stock; Eng. fee, Sc. kitchen fee, Ger. Vieh. See faihu.
• Fear, 16, Gael. a man, Lat. vir. Go. wair, A. S. waru
• Feck, 86, 138, a quantity. "The maist feck," the bulk; from effect.—N. E. D.

"What feck o' stirks an' milk coos hae ye?"

• Feckless, 87, futile
• Feeky, fikey, 63, 86, 136, 176, fidgety. O. N. fikenn, eager
• Feel a smell, 91
• Feet-washing, 218, C. Du. and O. Sc.
• Fell, 56, 168, 174, Go. filu, Du. veel; common intensive; Ger. viel, and also fell, sturdy.

"A snod bit lassie, fell an' clever."

"Broken Bowl."

⁠In N. E. D. Sc. sense classed under fell, fierce

• Fell, 17, skin. O. E. fel, Du. vel, Ger. Fell, Go. thruts-fell, leprosy, Lat. pellis. "The form felt, for pelt, is a confusion of felt, a kind of cloth."—N. E. D.
• Felling me, 106, "fooling," Ab.
• Fencing the tables, 74
• Fends, 70, defends
• Fer, for, 33, 56, Go. fair, far, faur, intensive prefix; Ger. ver.
• Fer-fochen, 56, fatigued, done up. Conn, with fecht, fight, Ger. Ge-fecht, Du. ge-vecht
• Fermentum, 32, Lat. in Go. Gospels, leaven of the Pharisees
• Ferse, 18, Ger. heel
• Feuar, 72, small landholder
• Feut-an'-a-half, 187, Cu.; cf. fit'n-a-half, Fi. a game
• Few, 94, 169, as a noun
• Fey, 22, fairy, fay, Fr. fée, It. fata, fate
• Fichil, 128, 140, Gael. fachail, strife
• Figgra-gulth, 15, 26, Go. finger-gold, ring
• †Fijands, feint, 56, pres. part. of fijan, Go. to hate, fiend, Ger. feind, Sc. "feent a bit;" fiend, Go. fijan, to hate, Ger. feind. N. E. D. "obsc. or., can hardly be a variant of fiend"
• Fill, 17, 27, Go. skin, in thruts-fill, leprosy, from thriutan, to threat, and fill, skin, Lat. pellis, Eng. fell
• Filly, 250, foal, Go. fula,
• Finevir, 154, whenever, Ab.
• Finger-jingles, 183
• Firlot, 150, O. N. "fiorthe hlotr, fourth part" of a boll

"A firlot o' guid cakes my Elspa' beuk."

"Gentle Shep."

• Firr'm, 80, form, bench
• Fiscal, 72, Sc. law term
• Fisks, 11, Go. fish, Lat. piscis
• Fit, 17, foot, Go. fotus
• Flachter-golak, 125, 149, Ic. flag, spot where turf has been cut, O. N. flaga, slab of stone, thin turf; Eng. flake, flay. Da. flaae, Boer, vlei, holm land. Orc. flaw, flaa, C. Du. vlei
• Flahta, 253, plaited. See flake
• Flake, 24, 208, a sheep fence, O. N. hurdle, Du. vlaak, *O. Teut. flehtan, Lat. plectere, plait, a wattled hurdle. Go. flaihtan, to weave, flahta, a plait of hair
• Flalie, 158, a flail (Ab.)
• Flannen, 183, 250, flannel, a more correct form than flannel. W. gwlanen, gwlan, cog. with wool
• Flauchter-spade, 125, 140, for paring turfs; flauch, to flay.

"A dibble an' a flauchter-spade"

"Jac. Ball."

• Flaws, 131, 140, spec. Sc. a fragment of a horse-shoe nail, O. N. flaga, slab of stone, flaw; or. sense "something peeled or struck off," and "something flat."
• Flax, 253, E. See flake
• Fleech, fleich, 69, 168, flatter; obsc. prob. Go. ga-thlaihan, to treat kindly. Du. vleien, to flatter, Ger. flehen, to beseech.—"Fleech till the gudewife be kin'"
• Fleed, 145, prob. var. of field, Mo. Jam. "a head-rig" (Ab.). Not in this sense in N. E. D.
• Fleyin', 68, frightening. O. E. a-flygan, to frighten away. Go. us-flaugjan, fleg, to frighten—conn. with fly
• Flyte, 128, scolding match
• Fliar, 173, Cu. laugh heartily, fleer, N. flira, to grin. Jam. "to gibe, taunt," a "fleering tell-tale."—Shak.
• Flings, 68, kicks up the heels.

"She sat an' she grat, an' she flate an' she flang"

• Flit, 70, remove, M. E. flitten. Da. flytte—conn. with fleet
• Flittermouse, 182, Cu. Ger. Fliedermaus
• Foal, 20, Go. fula
• Foarrie, 132, farrow, ferry (Bu.), cow, Du. verre-koe, ceased to bear, Fl. verroe-koe (16th c.)
• Fode, 18, in ballads, a man. Jam. "foode, feode, a man."
• Fog, 92, 149, moss; unknown or.: fjugg, Shet. airy stuff
• Foggie-toddler, fuggy-, 122, 140, 149, small, yellow bumble-bee, that toddles among dry moss—fog moss, foggie-bee—Jam.
• Fondness for diminutives, 195
• Foo, 40, Ab. who
• Foogie, fugie, 128, 151, one beaten in a fight, Lat. fugio, to flee—relic of school cock-fights, fuga, flight (law Lat.); Bu. to play truant—"The twa loons fugiet the squeel an' geed awa t' the widds, an' hairriet craws' nests a' day."—Gregor
• Fool, 20, 81, 111, fowl, Go. fugls, bird
• Foorsday, 39, Sc. dial.
• Foot-pad, 167, path, Cu.
• "Fork and knife," 92
• For-hoo, 33, to forsake; for-how, O. E. for-hogian, for, reversing, and hogian, to think, care

"And the merle and the mavis for-hoo't their young."—"Qu.'s Wake."

• Forrat, 167, Qu. forrit, Sc. forrard
• Fother, 18, E. to stop a leak by covering it with a sail, Go. fodr, a sheath, conn. with faths, a lord (cf. food, feed), O. Teut. *fothro, a sheath, O. E. fodor, Du. voedr. Kl. says "two different roots are confused in futter (Ger.) *Go. fodjan, feed, food, and Go. fodr, a sheath." See faths.
• Four-square, 92, square
• Fousom, 153, fulsome, offensive in smell
• Fouthie, 171
• Fowersom, 176
• Foy, 205, a feast, Shet., Ic. fog-und
• Fozie, 85, 149, soft, Du. voos, N. fos, L. Ger. fussig, spongy
• Frain, 31, 56, complain, ask, O. E. frayne, freyne, fregnan, O. N. fregna. Go. fraihnan, Ger. fragen. Jam. fryne, to fret from ill-humour, frynin. Not in N. E. D.
• Fraising, 34, 153. N. E. D. has frais, to creak, Sw. frasa, to rustle, fraise, a fuss, commotion, Go. fraisith, teniptest

"He may indeed, for ten or fifteen days,
Mak meikle o' ye, wi' an unco fraise."

Allan Ramsay.

• Fra-itan, 56, to eat up, Ger. fressen, E. fret, O. E. fretan, Du. vreten
• Fraiw, 48, Go. seed, fry, spawn, Ic. frae. Da. frö
• Frake, 85, a wheedler; fraik, s. v. fond discourse; fraikin, 140, 153. Not in N. E. D.
• Frammelt, 147. See thrammelt, of which this is a var.
• Frauja (masc), 22, 85, 205, Go.=master of the house, Du. vrouw, Ger. Frau; or. sense, "the first" in the house; cf. Ger. Fürst, O. N. freyr. Go. *fraujis (fern.) fraujo, Ic. Freya in our Friday. Distinguishes Our Lord in Go. Gospels. See free
• Fra-was, 56, Go. pret. of fra-wis-an to spend; was; Ger. war; or. sense, to stay in a place
• Freck, frack, 85, Orc. weak, delicate, O. E. free, Ger. frech, insolent, O. N. frekr, greedy. Go. friks
• Free, 22, 56, ballad term. O. E. fréo, O. Fr. frî, Du. vrijer, a wooer, O. N. fri-r, Go. frei-s, frijon, to love, "dear," of kindred, a free man, E. friend. See freen
• Freen, freend, 56, 127, friend, A. S. fréond, Go. frijonds, pres. part.; from frijon, to love; cf. Lat. amicus, amare; Du. vriend: or. kinsman, Du. vrijer, a lover. See free
• Freits, freit, 122, 148, 163, anything superstitiously cherished, often a hobby, O. N. frétt, news, augury. O. E. freht, oracle, from Go. fraih-nan, to ask. See frain
• Fremd, fremit, 32, 64, 206, strange, foreign, spec. Sc. O. E. fremede, Du. vremmd, H. Ger. vremde, strange, Go. framaths

"Is this the way the fremit serve us?"

"Broken Bowl."

• Fremd loanin, 168, strange loan or cow-yard
• Freyr, 22, N., prob. same as surname Frier
• Friks, 85, Go. in faihu-friks, greedy of money. A. S. and O. E. freca, a hero, O. N. frekr, greedy, Sw. frack, daring. Jam. freik, frick, a strong man, petulant; Ger. frech, bold; C. Du. vrek, 214
• Frius, 23, Go. frost, A. S. fréosan, fréorig, Ger. frier-en, Eng. freeze, Lat. pruina
• From, 89, after, different
• Fuls, 29, Go. foul, fou-nart=foul-marten
• Fulzie, 68, 125, compost, manure, fulzie,—"what is trampled underfoot"
• Furthie, 86, 137, 140, hospitable, free in giving, forthy, disposed to put oneself forth or forward; var. foothie—

"hat's gi'en wi' furthy glee."

• Furesday, Fuursday, 83, Thursday
• Fushonless, 87, "not given in Jam. at all, meaning under foisonless, an Eng. word." Shaks. foison, plenty. (J. B. F.)
• Fut. ind. and pres. subj., 37
• Futhork, 11, Go. A B C, the Runic alphabet, from the first six Runes, f, u, th, o, r, k
• Fwore, 171, Cu. fore

G

• G, 11, 83, its hard sound; gg=ng in Go.
• Gaan, 208, C. Du. See gang
• Gab, 68, fluency—"he has the gift o' the gab;"—var. of gape, prov. E. gob, the mouth, borr. from Gael. gob, beak, mouth; O. F. gob, a gulp; cog. gobble, gobbet, gabble
• Gaby, 170, E. See gab
• Gad, 12, 23, goad. Go. gazd-s, spike, O. N. gaddr, O. T. *gazdjâ, O. E. gyrd, yard; or. sense seen in Go. gad, a pike, fish with snout. Kl. sub Gerte says, goad and Go. gazd have a common origin, contrary to N. E. D.
• Ga-dailans, 32, Go. partners, Sc. dealsmen
• Gaebie, gebbie, 125, 152, hen's crop, "pron. against conn. with gab"—N. E. D.; cf. Gael. giaban, the gizzard
• Gaed, 34, 56, went, Go. iddja, O. E. yode. See gang
• Gaet, 62, road
• Gaffer, 127, gefera, A. S. companion, equal, retainer from faran to fare. From godfather rather than grandfather in sense of an old man. See playfare
• Gaggan, 56, Go. go, gang; gagg-s. Go. way, street, O. E. gangan, supplanted by gán, go, Du. gaan, Da. gá. See gang
• Ga-hlaiba, 24, Go. fellows of the loaf; or. term superseded by "bread" in general sense
• Gairnjan, 33, 56, Go. to long for, to yearn. Sc. girn, Ic. girna, to desire, gairnida, Go. pret.=yearned. See green
• Gairtans, 70, garters
• Gaisen, gaissend, gissen, gizzend, 33, 149, of a tub, leaking through drought, Ger. giessen. N. giosa, to spurt, gissen, leaky, Go. giutan, to pour
• Gaits, gaiteins, 21, Go. goat, Sc. gait; goat-ling
• Ga-juko, 48, Go. from jukan, to yoke: a parable, that which is paired, a simile
• Galeithandan, 48, Go. from leithan. A. S. †lithan, Eng. lead, leiten, O. N. litha, to travel—cog. lead, lode, load. Ger. laden, is Go. lathon, to call, invite
• Galesun, 48, perf. of lisan, to gather, A. S. and Eng. lease, to glean
• Gallasses, 178–9, Fi. in form, Cu. var. of gallows; cf. bellisses=bellows
• Gallop, 17, Go. ga-hlaupan
• Galsh, 150, Mo., prob. conn. with gash in gash-mouthed, wide-mouthed, voluble. Not in Jam.
• Gang, 32, Go. gaggian. The G. pret. iddja shows the conn. with verb of going in Sans., Gr., Lat. Its Sc. form is gaed, M. E. yode, with prefix ge-, as ga-iddja
• Gannet, 125, solan goose, O. E. ganot, Du. gent, Eng. gan-d-er. In A. S. the sea is the "ganotes bath"
• Gansell, 136, 140, gansellin, Bu.
• Gar- or gor-, 149, intensive prefix
• Garda, 25, 51, Go. yard or fold, gard-s, a house, or. sense, an enclosure; garth, Ger. gurt, gürten, A. S. gyrdan, gird, Go. gairdan, O. N. garth,—all, primarily, hedge round the homestead
• Garda waldands, 25, Go. head of the house, lit. yard-wielding
• Gardener's gairtens, 121, garters
• Garr, 70, 185, has almost superseded "make" in Sc. In Sc. gar, to force. For N. sense of "do," Sc. uses gar as "make or cause to do," widely Teutonic, O. N. ger(v)a, O. E. gearwian, Eng. yare and gear, Ger. garben, gerben, to tan
• Garrie-bee, 149, Mo. In archaic Eng. as garabee or hornet: gara-as in gerfalcon, gor-cock
• Garron, 71, 201, Gael.
• Gart, garth, gorth, gortchin, 25, 65, Go. garda, yard, N. garth-r, Da. gaard; common forms in place names. See garda
• Garuns, 25, Go. market place, where people run together
• Gatwo, 26, Go. a street, as in Sc. gate, road. N. gaita, Ger. gasse, from get, not "go"
• Gaw, 67, 139, rack, flaw, or. uncert., gell, a crack, Shet., galli, a defect (Ic.)
• Gawi, 19, 22, 23, Go. a country district, cog. E. yeoman
• Gawm, goam, gome, 33, 181, to stare (Cu.), stare vacantly; also goave, to recognise, "he never goamt me." O. N. gaum-r, Go. *gauma, heed; gaumjan, to observe
• Gawpus, 85, 136, 170, simpleton, prob. from gawp, gape, to yawn or gape
• Gayly, 168, Cu. Sc. geyly
• Ge-, 17, prefix, M. E. ye-, y-, i-, Go. ga-
• Ge', 196, C. Du. for gave, Sc. gied
• Geans, 127
• Geat, 182, Cu. See get, Ab.
• Geavin', 170, Cu. See goave, goavy
• Gêbun, 11, Go., gayvoon, they gave
• Geddis, 62, pike, spec. Sc. N. gedde, gadd-r, a spike, Go. gazd-s. See gad
• Geel, 212, C. Du. yellow. See gool
• Gefallen, 84, Ger. Chaucer, i-fallen
• Geld, geld-ing, 23, 148, castrate, N. geld-a, Ger. gelze. Cf. galti, a pig (Shet.). See giltha.—Not in Jam.
• Gellies (g hard), 120, 140, tadpoles, leeches—var. of jelly. Bu. geal-caul, ice-cold (g soft)
• Ger-bick, 131, Orc. the gerss- (grass) bank or bauk. See bauk
• German partitive, 94
• Get, 88, 169, as auxiliary, "Can I get going?"
• Gett (pron. geet), 33, 66, Ab. child. Not. in N. E. D. Gyte, var. of gait, from get, be-get a child, a first-year pupil in Edin. High School. Jam. get, gett, geat, geit:—"A theiffis geit."—"Elgin Records," 1627

"Whingin' getts about your ingle side."

"Gen. Shep."

• Gevel, 25, 150, 207, gable, Go. gibla, Da. gavl, Ger. giebel, lit. "the outermost"
• Gey, 168, u. intensive
• Geyser, 33, Ic. lit. "the gusher"
• Giban, 12, Go. to give, Sc. gee (g hard)
• Giglot, 137, 210, 140, var. of giggle
• Gilpy, 85, 137, a romp

"The gilpy stood and leuched (lauched) fell blate."—"Christ. Ba'in'."

• Giltha, 23, Go. sickle. Ic. gelda, Sc. geld, to castrate; Eng. geld-ing. See geld
• Gimmer, 254, Sc. a two-year-old ewe, N. gimbur
• Gingers, 187, Cu.
• Gird, girr', 127, a hoop for play or for a barrel—var. of girth: N. gjorth, Go. gairda, a girdle
• Girn, 33, 56, 62, 67, weep, girn, spec. Sc. sense, to be peevish—var. of grin. Girn, a wire snare for rabbits
• Girnal, 135, 155, same word as granary, but app. to a chest. See meal-girnal
• Girnin in a widdie, 187. See gairnjam, waddja
• Girss, grass, 19, 23, 70, Go. gras in sense of herb: cog. with grow
• Girt, 85, 170, Cu. great, Sc. grit, Ger. gross
• Gistra dagis, 254, Go. yestreen-day
• Giutan, 33, Go. to pour out water: Ger. giennen, Sc. gizzend, Eng. gush. See gaisen
• Glaur, 186, mud. "They say Christ will get a blecked face by the gate. An (if) He get this done, He must waide the glarre myre of our sins." "17th c. Sermons"
• Glegs, clegs, glegee, 85, 122, 123, 131, gad-fly, horse-fly
• "Gleg i' the up-tak," 32, 85, 86, 207, quick in intelligence, N. glegg-r, clear, clear-sighted, Go. glaggwuba, O. E. gleaw, clever
• Glegly, 32, cg. Go. glaggwuba, accurately ἀκριβῶς
• Gleshan, 116, Cptn.
• Gleg, glee, gleed, 69, Sc. squint, to look asquint, gleid, glyd, squint-eyed
• Gliff, 174, also Cu.
• Glisk o' cauld, a cold coming on, 138, spec. Sc.: glisk, also a slight look.—N. E. D.
• Glove, 16, A. S. glôf for ge-lof. See lofa
• Glower, 174, spec. sc. to stare with wide-open eyes: glower-oot, Cu. Da. glo, to stare, E. glewr
• Go, 85, Eng. Sc. through-pit
• Goavy dick, 120, 138, 170, goave, to stare stupidly: a broad, vacant stare. Jam. gives also goif, gove, goup, gawe, gauf. Not in N. E. D.
• Gob, 170, var. of gab; gubb, seum, froth, spit, Shet.
• Goed, die, 224, C. Du. Go. gôd-s, good, Sc. gude. Here goods, property. A common Sc. derivative is goodin, manure, both as v. and n. "There's naething waur nir seed hay for giddein golacks an' ither craiters o' that kin," was the bold figure of an Ab. farmer
• Golak, 122, 140, 149, a beetle, Gael. forchar (forked) gollach, the carwig. Jam. gelloch (Ayr., Dfr.), gavelock. Not in N. E. D. Also as gollack or horny gollack
• Gold, 26, Go. gulth, radical sense "yellow." See gool
• Gomas, 170, Cu. Not N. E. D.
• Gomeril, 85, 136, gommeral, Cu., Sc. a fool, silly fellow. Jam. gomral, "a daft gomeril o' a wife"
• Goodie (little), 123, sun spurge
• Gool, guld, 64, 148, 177, in Mo. generally called gweel; guil(d), the gold floewr, Du. goud-bloem. Ger. gold-blume, E. corn-gool
• Goose, 134, a tailor's iron, handle like a goose's neck
• Gope, 170, C. Du.
• Gorbel, gorbal, gorblin, 125, 176, unfledged birds, from gorb, greedy; gorp, Cu. young bird: cog. with grab, grip, grasp
• Gorrock, 149, red or moor cock
• Gorlin, 176, Cu. var. of gorp. See gorbel, gorlin; gurlin, a boy, a gorbet, Shet., conn. Ic. karl
• †Gorse, 19, O. E. gorst, Ger. gerste, barley, akin to Lat. hordeum, or. something bristly or prickly: not conn. with grass
• Gospel, 27, O. E. gód spel, trans. of Gr. evangelium. Go. thinth-spillon from thinths, good, and spillon, to announce, spell
• Gossip, 137, O. E. god-sibb, related godfather or godmother
• Gote, 172, Lan., gwote, Cu. "About the draining of the loch allows him to make his stank-gote to that effect."—"Glasgow Records," 1696
• Gow-an, lucken-gowan, 182, also Gael. and Ic., from golland, globe flower. See gool and lock
• Gowk, cuckoo, 216, 242, 251
• †Gowpen, gowpin full, goupen-fu', 33, 138, handful. N. gaupn; or. sense single hand hollowed. N. E. D. does not mention Go. kaupatjan in this connection as in text
• Graep, graip, 146, spec. Sc. Sw. grep, Da. greb, a fork for manure; var. grip, grope. See gripple
• Graphic descriptive epithets, 86
• Greedy, 29, Go. gredags, grêdus, hunger
• Greesh, 150, fire-place, cog. Ir. grushach. See gris
• Greet, 30, 35, 87, spec. Sc. cry. O.E. graetan, N. gràta, Go. grêtan, to weep, grat, pret. Go. gai-grot

"She sat an' she grat
An' she flet an' she flang."

• Grewy, "one of the most expressive of Sc. words, to be looked for under grewing (II. 452 Jam.), where you are referred to groue, growe." (J. B. F.)
• Grice, 68, 133, 182, 250, sp. Sc. a young pig. O.N. griss. Da. gris, Skr. grishti, E. griskin, N. gricifer, grice or swine fever
• Grien, green, 129, to yearn, A.S. geornan, long for. See gairnjan

"Then a' the hooss for sleep begin to grein."

Fergusson.

• †Griere, 93, 128, Sc. farm-bailiff. W.Sax. gerefa, in Eng. reeve, sheriff, land-grave, Ger. Graf, conn. A.S. róf, active, not Ger. Graf.—Kl. Sk.
• Gripple, gruip, 132, Du. greppel, a ditch, from Du. grip; grips, grips, O.E. grép, a burrow, groop, Ger. Graben. See graep
• Grippy, 69, tight-fisted, Du. gripich, from grip
• Grips, 132, hand-i-grips, a fight at close quarters
• Gris (Irish), 150, grushach. See greesh
• Groop, grupe, gruip, 132, Ger. Graben, drain in cow-byre; Eng. graft (obsc.); Du. gracht, a ditch, and street on either side of a canal, grare, to dig
• Groosie, 153, shivering with cold; groue, growe, groose to shudder; grue, goose skin on approach of a cold. Cf. Ger. grausam.
• Groosin, 138, Ger. grausen, a shivering (cold) fit, gruse, groosy, grue, to shudder from cold, dread, &c. Ger. grausen, Du. gruwen
• Grozets, grozers, grossarts, 127, 240
• Grumphie, the pig (echoic)
• Grundie swallie, 123, groundsel, grunde-swylige (10th c.); grundee-swelgiae (7th c). N.E.D. discusses the confusion of these two forms, not very satisfactorily
• Gucken, 209, colloquial Ger. like Sc. seestu'. Cf. keek, which see
• Gude, 29, 81, god-s, goth-s, gen. gôdis. Go. good, or. sense, fitting, suitable; Du. goed, Ger. gut, landed estate
• Gudge, (Ab.) 23, 56, 65, 112, a peasant. Go. gaujans, peasants, gauja, a peasant, 21; gawi, a country district, in place names, 19, 22; gudge, not in N.E.D. Jam. has gudget, a camp follower, Fr. goujat
• Gud-hus, 25, Go. God's house, guth, masc. in sg. and pl. gutha. In Go. neut. in pl. neuter. In or. use anal. to Lat. numen and deus.—N.E.D.
• Gud-ja, 28, Go. priest, good man
• Guildee, 116, Cptn.
• Guisers, guisard, guisin, 104, in fantastic guise
• Gulls, 177, Cu.
• Gully, 133, spec. Sc. or. obs.—a large knife

"A lang kale gully hung doon by his side."

• Gum, 181
• †Guma, 16, 248, 249, Go. man. A.S. guma, "groom, difficult,—not from guma."—N.E.D.
• Gumpshin, gumption, 33, 136, 181, 217, judgment, mother wit, rummle-gumption. Not explained in N.E.D. Conn. O.N. gaumr, care, heed. Go. gaumjan, to take notice of. See gawm
• Gundy, 130, 185, 259, syn. of clack, which see
• Gunst, 31, 245, Ger. Klüge=ge-unst, O.H.G. gi-unnan=gönnen: oldest form anst (without prefix ge-). Go. ansts, A.S. ést; with gönnen, cp. Du. gunnen, A.S. unnan, O.N. unna. For Go. root ans=Ger. ¤un.s, unsan, O.N. áss, A.S. os=Godhead, Sans. asura for ansura. See an-an, eynd, &c.
• Gur-pug, 71, Orc.=a small Shetland horse
• Gurthie, 140, "app. spec. to what burdens the stomach."—Jam. Bu. galsoch, gulsoch, fond of good eating.—Gregor
• Gus-gus! 67, 133, call to pigs, Ic. gosse, a pig, Sc. gussie, "Goosie! goosie!"; grumphie, Fi., a pig, Ic. grumfie, a spectre; grynta, to grunt, Shet.
• Gutty, 150, pot-bellied: gut, the intest. canal of animals, Go. giutan, to pour, Sc. and O.E. gote, a drain; cf. Fi. gutsy, gluttonous. A dignified Aberdeenshire burgh official was popularly known as Gutty Willie. See gaissen, giutan
• Gutter-gaw, 140, a pustule shown on feet between the toes after paddling in gutters: "conn. with gall either as bile, Du. gal, Ic. gall, or with O.F. galler, to gall, in F. gale, scab on fruit, Lat. callus, thick skin."—Sk.
• Gynnys, 62, gin=noose, from engine
• Gyte, 33, silly, to gang gyte, perh. cog. with giddy, out of one's senses

"Screamed like a young gyte."

"Christ. Ba'in'."

 

H

• H., 12, 82, 177, Cu., before a vowel in Go.
• Haa-penny deevels, 130, 186, hawp'ny d—, old-fashioned gingerbread figures
• Haar=mist, 98, cf. hoar frost, and prob. O.N. hárr, hoar, hoary
• Hack, 146, North, a muck-rake. Du. hak, hoe, Eng. hack. See howk
• Hae, 197, for have, C. Du. hé
• Haemit, hamil, 153, 171, 200, hamald, hamelt, hamel, from hame, home, O.N. heimolt, Shet. heimilt, pasture adjoining a yard or enclosure; hamly, homely, 62
• Hafflin, 66, 137, 187, young plowman, hawflin, spec. Sc., one half-grown
• Hafjands(and-), Go. answering: from hafjan, to heave. Ger. heben, to lift, Lat. cap-i-o. Cf. Bible, "lifted up his voice"
• Hagg, 66, 140, cow-tender. Not in N.E.D.
• Haggis, 98, dish, now spec. Sc., der. unknown, Fr. hachis is later
• Haihs, 17, Go. one-eyed.
• Haims, 32, village, Go. haim, af-haims, from home. O.E. hain, Du. heem, Ger. heim
• Haims, 130, Jam. hammys, hems, collar of working horse. Du. haam, O.F. ¤ham—to hold against. "Not known bef. 1300." N.E.D. See brecham.
• Hained, 70, 130, saved. Not in N.E.D. Hain, to spare, save from exertion:—

"An' swankies they link aff the pat
To hain their joes."—"Farm. Ha'."

• Hairdeis, 68, Go. a herdsman
• Hairst, 94, 128, 129, autumn, Ger. Herbst, harvest
• Hairus, 25, Go. a sword, A.S. heor
• Hait, 12, a bit, an atom. "The de'il hait ails you."—M'Crie's "Knox." Ic. haete, common phrase, also explained as "De'il have it," which see
• Haithi, 23, Go. heath
• Hake and manger, 173, live in plenty
• Haldand, 24, 35, Go. keeping, holding, Eng. hold, O.E. haldan, N. halda, Ger. halten, Go. haldan, Sc. hud, hudden; Go. only to keep cattle, which term superseded it in Sc.; hald, for hai-hald, Go. pret. of haldan
• Hale, 106, to take a goal. Not in N.E.D.
• Hale-apothek, 86, 138, Sc. entire or whole quantity, Gr. apotheké
• Half two, 197, Sc. idiom
• Halja, 28, Go. hell. O.N. and Du. hel, or. "the coverer up." See hool; Go. huljan, to cover
• Hallan, 68, perh. dim. of hall, screen wall inside doorway, inside porch.—N.E.D.

"Richt scornfully she answered him
Begone ye hallan-shakker."

• Hallion, halones, 160
• Halp, 36, Go. helped, pret. of hilp-an
• Halts, 17, Go. halt, lame, Eng. limp, v., to make a halt
• Hamfs, 17, Go. one-handed=ha-nifa. Skeat, under hamper, connects it with hamfs, M.E. hamelen, to mutilate, render lame, hammle, an ungainly walk, Ic. hamla and Ger. hammel, mutilated. See nieve, neive: hummel has many uses in Sc.—hornless, mean, shabby, to dress bere or barley
• †Hansel, 15, 32, a New Year gift. "Form corr. to O.E. handselen, giving of the hand over a bargain, O.N. hands-al, money handed over to anyone. The usages—luck penny, auspicious inauguration, &c.—not accounted for by these; cf handsel, earnest money, Ger. Handgeld."—N.E.D. Go. hunsl, gift laid on the altar, hunsla-staths, the altar. N.E.D. does not note Go. hunsl in this connection
• Hantle, 86, 138, a considerable quanity; not known before 1700; or. obs.—N.E.D.
• Hardies, 186 Fi. hard biscuits
• Hare-shed, 151. Jam. "hare-shard, hareshaw = harelip, harchatt, hareskart (Renf.), from hare, and Ic. ska, a particle, Ger. Scharte, a gap," A.S. sceart, shard
• Harjis, 23, Go. army, Ger. Heer, Eng. herr-ing
• Harmless-loonie, 139, natural or imbecile, Lat. luna, the moon. Not in N.E.D. Cf. a "dwamly craiter," Lan., in same sense
• Harn-clout, 110 , herden, hurden, contr. of harden, a coarse fabric made from hards, Du. heerde, threads of flax, O.Teut. type, hizdon, coarser parts of flax separated in hackling. Clout, var. of cloth, Ger. Kleid
• Harns, 14, 16, 17, 118, 204, 207, Go. hwairnei, brains, hwairnei-staths, Golgotha or place of a skull, Du. hersen-pan; spec. Sc. harn-pan, the skull, brain-pan; harns, brains. O.N. hjarne, Du. hersenen, Ger. ge-hirne
• Hat, hitten, 88, Orc. hote, hotten, hutt; Orc. pret. hit
• Haubith, 17, Go. head, A.S. heafod, Lat. caput
• Haugh, 19, 23, holm-land, Go. hugs, a field, O.E. halk, corner, nook, Du. hoek
• Haus-jan, 12, Go. to hear; widely Teut. Go. alone shows s, gahausjan, to hear; s and r interchange
• Have a want, to, 91
• Haver, 72, Sc. law, "witness having documents to produce in a suit; not given Jam." (J. B. F.)
• Haveril, 98, 136, spec. Sc. one who havers or talks without sense—or. unknown.—N.E.D. Hyveral, a lounger, idler.—Ed.
• Havver, haffer, 177, 183, 212, oats, "presumably Norse." Fr. haver, Ger. Hafer, var. hauver
• Haversack, 177, oat-sack. See havver
• Hause, 18, 56, neck, O.E. and O.N. hals, Go. hals, hass, Orc. Pap o' the hass, given in Jam. as Ulva for Uvula. (J. B. F.)
• He, 39, 78, 171, dee, for the, in Ir. and Gael. dialect respectively
• Hearken, 88, hear a child his lessons
• Heath, 23, 32, go. haithi, haithno, a heathen woman; or. sense, prairie land. Ger. Heide
• Heather-reenge, 119, reenge, var. of rinse or range. Either will suit sense
• Heech, hee, 12, 38, high, Go. hauh-s, hauhnan, to be heech, to hichten. Ger. hoch, Go. hauhnan, to be exalted
• Hech! 53, deep breath, exclamation; Sc. form of heigh! "Hech Sirs!" not given in Jam. (J. B. F.)
• Heckle, 70, to dress; Flax; v. and n. var. of hackle, hatchel
• Heft, 56, axe handle, O.E. haefte, Ger. Heft, Eng. haft, have, heave, that by which anything is held.—N.E.D.

"I'll nature hefts sauls that weep an' pine."

Allan Ramsay.

• Heftet, 56, 131, 147, 177, ga-haftida, Go. cleaved to: haft, O.E. haeft, Ger. Heft, a handle, root in heave or have, O.N. hefta, to bind retain (milk, urine), Ger. heften, heftet, acclimatised, as sheep to pasture. Shet. provided with
• Hei-sned, 163, hay-cutter
• Hemmil, 180, Cu. presumably misreading for skemel, which see
• Herdwick wool, 179, Cu.
• Heritors, 72, landlords, Sc. law
• Herried, harriet, herryin, 124, 151, 155, robbed (a nest), var. of, harry, harrow deriv. from Go. harjis, an army, and widely Teut. See harjis, hership. Bu. "The loons got a gueede soun dribban for hairrien the craw's nest."—Gregor

"They hao near hand herrit hale
Ettrick Forest and Lauderdale."

"Bord. Minst."

• †Herr-ing, 23, O.E. hering, Du. haring, Ger. Häring, Hering, F. hareng. Gen. explained as from heer, an army—"the fish that comes in hosts," but its short vowel is against this.—N.E.D.
• Herrt, 17, heart. Go. hairto, Ger. Herz
• †Herrth, haurja, 25, burning coals. Go., Du. haard, Ger. Herd, fireplace, floor. N.E.D. does not notice connection of hearth with haurja
• Herry, 137, a virago, perhaps akin to Ger. Herr
• Hership, 167, A.S. here. Go. harjis, a troop and scipe (abst. term), Ic. her-skap-r, ravaging. See harjis, herry
• Hery, 52, M.E. to praise, O.E. herian. Go. hasjan, hazjandane, pres. part.
• Het, 171, Du. def. article
• Hetzen, 69, Ger.=to set on dogs to fight
• Hey, hay, 19, Go. hawi, meaning grass, herb; Du. hooi, Ger. Heu
• Hey-soos, 146, hay-sows, hay-ricks
• Hi, 45, Go. this, old pronon. stem
• Hick nor ree, 189, Cu.
• Hickory-pickery, 115
• Hiding, 101, thrashing
• Hie, 53, Eng. to hasten, O.Sc. hyand, hastening, O.E. higian, to pant, Du. hijgen, Ger. heichen, Sc. hech
• Hilda, 27, Pr. name, the gracious one, O.E. hold, Du. hon, Go. hulths, gracious, wilja-halthei, benevolence, ¤hilthan, to be inclined. See hulths
• Himins, 23, Go., Ger. Himmel
• Himsel', 91, himself, in "He's no ——— the day"
• Hind, 65, 181, 184, ploughman—chiefly on Borders. M.E. hine, O.North, in sense of famuli: hine faedar (Rushw. Gl.)=pater familias, A.S. hyne, Cu. hyne. In hind, fem. deer, the d is radical; O.E. hind, Ger. Hinde, Go. hinthan, to catch
• Hine, 45, E. dial. him
• Hinny, 85, 181, term of endearment, var. of honey
• Hip, 151, var. of hop, to pass over. M.E. hyppe, Ger. hüpfen, Go. ¤huppjan, O.E. hoppian, O.N. hoppa, to hop

"Nor hip the daft and gleesome saunts
That fill Edina's seat."⁠Ferg.

• Hippit, 177, hip muscles strained and tired
• Hirdsell, 24, 68, sheep stock of a hill farmer; hirsel, O.N. hizla, safe keeping; hirtha, to herd, Go. hairdeis, a herd.—N.E.D.
• Hirplin mawkin, 97, 122, 129, hirple, to walk with a limp, run like a hare; or. unknown; spec. Sc.

"He hosts an' he hirples the weary day lang."

"Ball."

• Hirrd, 24, herd, hairda. Go., O.E. heord, Ger. Herde
• Hirsled, 85, moved with effort, O.N. hrista, to shake. Da. ryste, rustle—"John hirsled on his specs"
• Hi-spy! 127
• Hit for it, 35, 45, 197, 209. C. Du. het
• Hive, 152, Mo. the hoof, Du. hoef, Da. hov
• Hizzy, 137, var. of hussy, from housewife
• Hoast, 138, 207, A.S. hwosta, Ic. hosti, imitative, C. Du. hoests
• Hochlan, 115, var. of hobbling
• Hoddenly, 189, Cu. continuously; app. hodd is a var. of hold
• Hoek, 204, 210, C. Du., corner (Boer), Du. hoek, haak, corner, angle, nook, Eng. hook. The Hook of Holland
• Hoo, 40, how
• Hoodie or howdie craw, 64, the hooded crow
• Hoofd, 204, C. Du. head, Ger. Haupt
• Hool, huil, hule, helyt, 28, 62, pea-cod. Eng. hull, shell, pod or husk=what covers. Ger. Hülle, Hülse, hulls (Sart. Res.) clothes, Go. huljan, to cover. "The kind corn has its ain hool."—Prov. Shet. hule, husk. "My heart is out o' hule"
• Hoolet, 251, the owl, Ger. heulen, to howl or hoot as an owl, O.F. huller, to yell. Teut. forms generally without aspirate, A.S. ùle, O.N. ugla, Lat. ulula
• Hoosses, 25, 83, Go. hus
• Hoo-t-ootts, 171; "not given at all in Jam." (J. B. F.)
• Horn, 72, 131, Sc. law, proclaim bankrupt, outlaw; from horn as trumpet, v. to call
• Hornie (Fair) Hornie, the Devil, Sc., the Horned One. See Fair Hornie
• Horse-chestnut, 21. "Called in English horse chestnut for that the people of the East countries do with the fruit thereof cure their horses of the cough."—Gerard's "Herbal," 1597
• Hotch, 178, hotchin
• Hovin, 131, 147, swollen (app. to cows) with overfeeding; cf. heave, hove
• Howe, 23, Eng. hoe, hollow, Ger. Haue, Eng. hough, Sc. howe, howk, Go. hoha, N. hol. Da. huul. Go. hul-undi. See howk
• Howf, 224, abode, resort, C. Du. kerk-hof, Ger. Kirchhof, churchyard, C. Du. hof; "howff not given. Houff refers you back to hoiff; Hoffe, a residence" (II. 601, Jam.). (J. B. F.) "A timber hoofe to be meithed" (measured).—"Glasgow Records," 1696
• Howk, 146, 204, 253, to hollow, N. halka, root of holl-ow with dim. formative k, Go. hul-undi, a cave, us-hulon, to hollow out, Sc. haugh. See howe
• Hree, 83, chree, Lan. three
• Hrukjan, 13, Go. to crow, rook, onomat.
• Hud, hold, 73, keep
• Huddin, 24, held
• Hue (wee), "a wee hue maer," 138. Paisley humour was to apply the phrase to the Sheriff at the time (Mair). Both his stature and name fitted the expression. "Hue, a tasting, app. to solids or liquids."—Jam.
• Hugan, 26, 33, Go. to think; hugs, Go. understanding. See for-hoo
• Hugs, 19, 23, Go., Sc. haugh, Eng. holm. N.E.D., under haugh, says, "app. from O.E. halk, corner." See hoek
• Huis heer, 207, C. Du.=Sc. hooss-maister
• †Hulths, 27, Go. merciful; hold, Ger. gracious, O.N. hollr, A.S. hold. Go. un-hultho, unclean spirit; un-hold, sin. Klüge does not connect Ger. Held, a hero, as in the text, with Ger. hold, but finds it in A.S. haeleth, a man. See Hilda
• Hundfaths, 15, 18, Go. hundred-lord, centurion; cf. braut-faths
• Hunds, 250, Go. hound
• Hunker-tottie, 129, 140, a position in sliding as a game. Or. obs. Fris. hauk, corner, home in a game. Cf. O.N. hokra, to crouch, huka, Ger. hocken, to sit on the heels, Sc. hock, the ankle joint, and E. hough; prob. akin Shet. hookers, bended knees; cf. Sc. hoch
• Hups, 17, Go. hip, O.E. hype, Du. heup, Ger. Hüfte
• Huird, huzd, 12, Go. hoard, treasure, O.E. hord, hidden, O.N. hodd
• Hw-, 82, Go. and Sc. hw-, E. wh-, pre. Teut. kw-
• Hwairpan, 14, Go. to throw, warp
• Hwaiteis, 14, 20, 23, Go. hwaits in text, Sc. hwait, wheat
• Hwapjan, 48, Go. to choke, var. of whopan, whoop, whopper, whooping-cough
• Hwas, 14, 40, Go. who. Sans, kas, Sc. whaw
• Hwaurms 14, Go. dragon. Sc. wurrm, worm. Sans. krimi, carmine, crimson
• Hwê, 40, Go.
• Hwi-leiks, 14, 40, Go. which, Sc. whilk
• Hwithon, 14, Go. older form of withon, to shake, Lat. quatere
• Hwotidedun, 14, Go. rebuked, whetted
• Hyand, 53, hastening, Eng. hie
• Hypothec, 86, Sc. law
• Hyucks, 128, 146, hooks, sickles, syth-hyuck

 

I

• I, 80, 81, thin vowel sound of; final light i is -ie
• Ick-er, 20, ear of corn. See akran
• Iddja, 34, Go., Sc. gaed, O.E. yode
• Id-weitjan, 206. Go. See white (v.)
• Ier-oe, jeroy, 63, Orc. Gael. iar after, and ogha grandchild
• †Iets, 12, 138, 209, 215, C. Du. anything; neg. niets. Perh. cog. -with Ger. jetzt, itself obsc., but its older form ietz.—Kl.
• I-fallé, 84, Chaucer. See ge-fallen
• Ik, 38, 169, 197, Go. and C. Du. I. In O.E. ik and I were in use tog. till 14th c.; I alone in N. and Mid. after 1400; in S. ich remained till, in 16th c, reduced to ch, as cham, chave, chill, with auxl. verbs. See "che vor ye"
• Ik-ei, 39, Go. I who
• -ila, 2, Go. dim. ending
• Ill-laits, 184, Angus; ill-aits, Fi.; ill-gait, syn. Bu.—"A thocht he wiz gain t' dee weel, bit he's back till a's ill-gaits."—Gregor
• Ill-set, 70, 137.—Not in N.E.D.

"Ye're owre ill-set. As ye'd hae meesir ye sud mett."—"Farmer's Ha'."

• Implemented, 72, law, made good.
• Income, 139, an on-come, morbid affection, or tumour
• Inconvene, 92, inconvenience, malapr.
• Infeft, 72, Sc. law; cf. en-feoff, to invest with heritable property, a fief
• Ingaan-ee, ingaun-ee, 180, 188; "not given, but ingaan, ingain and ingaand mouth are." (J. B. F.)
• Ingle-lowe, 68, the fireside; prob. Gael. aingeal, fire, light.—N.E.D.
• Inkle, 173, early form of linen tape, from Holland. Du. enkel, single is conjectured as origin.—N.E.D. Not in Jam.
• Inlichten, en-lighten. Go. inliuhtjan
• In, 89, as prep, in Sc.—in his offer, in life, in a present
• Inspan, 203, C. Du. See spang.
• In-tack, 92, a fraud, deception
• Interlocutor, 72, Sc. law, decision
• Inversion of the subject, 168, Sc. and Ger.
• Iol-air, 20, Gael. iol, yellow, and air, bird. See gool and earn, erne
• I'se quite agreeable, I'se warrant, 167, 169; archaic Sc. Cf. Du. ik is
• I' the noo, 172, just now
• Ither, 48, other; pl. ither for older ithere. Sc. antarin, Go. anthar, Ger. ander
• Iver-sell, 147, Mor., var. of over-sells. See sells, sile. Not in N.E.D.

 

J

• Ja, -ya, -ie, 28, dim. suff. This diminutive, so characteristic of the N.E. counties, is very rare in Elgin Kirk Records of 17th c.
• Jag, 174, Cu. and Bord.
• Jing-a-ring, 127. Not in Jam. or N.E.D.
• Jink, 174, Cu. and Bord.
• Jinka, 34, 48, Go. strife; jukan. Go. to contend. See yoke, yokin
• Joabing, 122. Jam. job, a prickle, jobbie. "App. onomat. as sound of an abruptly arrested stab."—N.E.D. Cf. Bu. dob, a prick, Perth, drob
• Jobbings, 94, repairs
• Jookery-packery, 82, 85, for jookrie-pawkrie, Fi. N.E.D. doubts if jouk, conn, with duck, Sc. djuk, to bend or swerve quickly, dodge; packery, for pawkery; cf. pawky
• Jots, jotterie, 152, Mor.—jobs. Jam. "Jotterie, odd or dirty work."—Ettrick
• Ju, je, 56, Go. now, already, Ger. ja, A.S. jes, E. yes
• Jugg-o, 248, Go. young, Ger. jung
• Just noo, 172, Cu. for "i' the noo"

 

K

• K, 14, 152, 178, initial, sounded k, hard, sound of. Nursery rhyme in which k is always sounded—"John Knox fell over a knowe an' cut his knee on a knife." (J. B. F.) It sounds strange to hear, in a German school, of K-nox, the Reformer
• Ka, 40, Sans, who? Sc. whaw?
• Kaapsche, 191, var. of C. Du. Taal
• Kail-runt, 68, 123, 129, No. form of cole; Lat. caulis, cabbage; kail-stock, in same sense
• Kaisara-gild, 34, Go. the "tribute money;" Cæsar-gold
• Kalbo, 21, Go. calf, Sc. cauf
• Kalds, 29, Go., Sc. cauld, cold
• Kalpa, 40, Sans, a body, Lat. corpus
• Kasa, 25, Go. a pot, kettle, Go. katils, Du. ketel, kessel, borr. from Lat. catillus, a food vessel
• Kast to, of peats, 178, Cu.; in sense to throw, E. cast
• Kaupatjan, 33, Go., prob. cog. with cuff, Sw. kufva, to subdue, cow, kuffa, to thrust
• Kaurn, 23, Go. corn
• Keek, 209, 210, 219, to peep, not in O.E.; Du. kijk-en; cf. teet
• Keelie's eyrie, 122, 140, sparrow hawk's nest—from the bird's cry
• Keelivine, 134, any coloured pencil, or. made from keel, ochreous iron-ore, ruddle; Gael. cill
• Keep, 185, mind, look after, repair, maintain in proper order—sense archaic in Eng. "The saids bestiall not being keeped eats the petitioner's cornes."—"Glasgow Records," 1695
• Keep nicks, 185, Cu.
• Kempin', 64, 128, 146, Ger. Kämpfen, to strive in doing a piece of work, O.Fr. kempa, Du. kemp(e), Ger. kämpe, Eng. camp, Lat. campus, a plain. "A' the coern's no shorn be kempers."—Prov. N.E.D. Shet. kemp-rooth, a rowing match
• Ken, kenned, kennin, a sample, 34, 70, 255, Go. kannjan, cause to know, O.E. cennan, Fr. kanna, Du. kennen, Ger. kennen. In later tongues, to know; but in Sc. it has supplanted know. "I no kan" (Berw.) for I dinna ken
• Kenspeckle, 84, Sc. obsc. or., but, like N. kjennespak, quick at recognising things
• Kêrel, 163, 185, 209, 218, 222, Orc. and C. Du.; cf. carle, churl
• Kibe, 204, W. cib, a cup, "malady in shape of a cup, from swelling form."—Sk. See cob, kopje
• Kick-up, a, 92, disturbance, wrangle
• Kiekjies, 216, C. Du.
• Killogie, or kiln-logie, 150, covered space in front of a kiln; Shet. fireplace of a kiln
• Kiln-huggie, 150, Orc. For huggie, see hugs
• Kiltheis, 248, Go. chield, child
• Kimmin, 66, 68, 132, 140, 209, 219, Fi. bucket, coum, Eng. cuming, coomb, O.E. cumb, Ger. Kumm, a vessel, O.Teut. kumbo, a vessel. North, coom, kim, a milk can, M.E. kim(e)lin. App. rel. to O.E. camb, combe, a tub
• Kin (kain), 151, rent paid in kind, gen. fowls; Gael, caan, the head, càin, poll-money
• Kinch, 17, 208, C. Du. kink, twist in a rope, Ger. kink, Ic. kikna, to bend at the knees
• Kinkhoest, 17, 207, C. Du.
• Kirn, rantin' kirn, kirn stick, 107, 134, "uncert. or.—harvest-home or harvest supper, cutting of last handful of corn" N.E.D.—Ic. kvern, E. corn. See quern

"As bleak-faced Hallowmas returns,
They get the jovial rantin' kirns."

"Twa Dogs."

• Kirn, 88, E. churn
• Kisten, 74, chesting, coffining, putting into the chest or coffin.
• Kitchen, 67, Sc. butcher-meat, any kind of food eaten with bread, &c., as a relish; "fee, dripping, the skimmings of fat meat"
• Kittle, 74, 79, 171, spec. Sc. difficult, v.=to tickle, prob. of N. or.; O.N. kitla, to tickle, Ger. kitzeln: unknown outside Teut.
• Kittlen, kitling, 92, 121, or. young of any animal, a kitten; "comm. only identified with O.N. ketling-t, a kitten." The loss of final g in ing quite regular in Scots.—N.E.D.
• Klecks, 130, Ger. a spot, as of ink, a blur; in Campbeltown, a "stollm." "To gather a stolm," said of animals when with young.—Edm. See klack
• Kleintjies, 207, 218, C. Du., Ger. klein
• †Kleuz, 152, Ger. split; not a Ger. word as given in text
• Klik, 208, C. Du. cleek, which is No. form of O.E. cleche=clutch, Sc. cluik, a claw; from latch, modif. by loss of A.S. prefix ge, seen in A.S. gelaecan
• Klip, 204, C. Du. a crag, var. of cliff
• Kloek, 207, C. Du. clever, Ger. klüg, Du. kloek, N. klokr; or. obsc. Cf. Sc. gleg
• Kloof, 204, C. Du. a ravine with steep sides; var. of Du. clif, pl. cleve, O.N. klif
• Kluit, 218, C. Du. See clüte
• Kluitjies, 218, C. Du.
• Knap, 67, 152, as in stane-knappin or stone-breaking, knapped; Du. and Ger. knappen, to crack, snap, bite; Bu. var. knack, to talk in a lively manner. "He thinks nae mair o' knackin aff lees nor o' pittin aff's claise an' gain till's bed."—Gregor
• Knap or knot grass, 145, having knobs on stalk
• Kneef, 152, C. Du., app. var. of knap, to break a thing with a sharp crack; "knapped ginger." — Shak. See knap
• Knijp, 152, 153, 198, 222, C. Du. "kêrels in die knijp"; Ger. Kneipe, kneipen, student word, late in appearing; Du. knijp, straits, difficulties, a public-house; or. Du. knip, bird-trap. See Knopf
• Kniu, 17, Go. knee, Ger. Knie
• Knopf, 67, knot, Ger.; Kl. knop, A.S. cnopp, Du. knop, bud, button. Go. Ger. Knauf, ¤knaupa, A.S. ¤cnobba, M.E. knobbe, knob, M.E. knap
• Knottie, 154, Mo. small knot or lump
• Knowe, knoll, 81, 82, O.E. cnoll, hill-top, Du. knol, clod, ball, Ger. Knollen, N. knoll, a hillock; "rounded hill-top."—N.E.D.
• Kod, 100, Orc. a pillow. See coddis
• Koil-tett, 146, Mo. head-koil or cole, O.E. ted, to spread new-mown grass, Ic. tatha, hay in a homefield. Cf. Sc. tothed, manured, Ic. tath, manure, q.v.
• Komme, 209, C. Du. See kimmin
• Kop, 175, 202-204, C. Du. kopjie, Du. kopje, dim. of kop, head; cog. kibe (Shak.), a chilblain, any malady in shape of a cup.
• Kraan, 207, also C. Du. a tap, cock, or fawcett
• Krames, 205, Ger. Kram, out-spread cloth covering over a booth, the booth, its wares. Specially Du., spread through trade, Ic. kram. In Du. also means child-bed, hence C. Du. kraam-bezuk, Ger. Besuch, a visit
• †Krug, 198, A.S. cróg, croh, crúce, M.E. crouke, Du. kruik, kroeg, a drink-shop, Ic. krukka, pot, or. Celt. The name Krüger does not necessarily imply a Ger. origin as in the text
• Kudda, kod, 100. See teva-kudda, and cod, a bag
• Kuni, 255, Go. kin, kindred, kind
• Kyard, 154, Gael, caird, a gipsy, tinker. See carid
• Kynockel, 152, Mo. knuckle, A.S. cnucel, M.E. knokil, Du. knokkel, Ger. Knöchel; dim. of Du. knok, Ger. Knochen, a bone
• Kyob, kyobie, 152, Mo. for gaebie, a bird's crop. See gaebie

 

L

• L, sound, 80
• Laager, 121, C. Du., Du. leger, camp; cog. lair, Ger. Lager, Go. ligr-s, a couch, from ligan, to lie
• Laal, 39, 171, 178, 181, Cu., var. of little, also lile. Not in N.E.D.
• Labour, 94, to till
• Labrod, 105, for lap-board, used to cut out work upon (by tailors)
• Lach, 13, laugh, hlahjan, Go.
• Laerrok, 71, 126, lark, A.S. láwerce, láferce, Ic. laevirki, Du. leeuwerik; lit. laew-werca, guile-worker, regarded as of ill-omen
• Laggan, 204, Gael, in place names; cog. with Sc. laich, loch
• Laidlick, 129, Bu. North var. of loathly, repulsive, "laithly beast"; for-laithie, disgust. "He took a for-laithie at it." Cf. ill-laits, ill-aits, bad habits, q.v.
• Laif, 23, 26, loaf, Go. hlaiba, A.S hláf, Ger. Laib, Go. ga-hlaiba, messmates
• †Laik, 30, 56, O.E. lác, warlike activity O.N. laik-r, to play. Go. laik-s, (lance, laikan, to leap for joy. "E. lark, a frolicsome adventure, v. and sub., first 1811-13; or. somewhat uncertain."—N.E.D.
• Lair, 27, lore. Go. laisjan, to make to know, its pret. as a pres. is lais=know, from which Go. leis=expert, lubja-leis=witchcraft, Ger. lehren, to make to know
• Lairdet, 145, 200, v. lair to sink in mire, mire or bog; subst. lair, clay, cog. with lime, loam; Shet. leir, clay, mud
• Laisareis, 27, Go. the Scribes, Rabbis
• Laisnan, 38, Go. to be taught. See lair, lore
• Laithly, 129; laith, unwilling
• Laitin, 184, Cu. custom
• Lall-wörter, 247, prattle words
• Lamming, 172, a beating; to lam, break, beat soundly, O.N. lemja, past of v. to lame; cog. lame, not Sc.; Bu. form is lummer, to beat smartly, "A lummer on at ma laddie to pay attention till's lessons."—Gregor; Fi. loonder, "To gie 'm a loonderin."
• Land, 23, Go., Sc. laund
• Lang-nebbit, 89; lit. long-nosed, said of big words
• Lap, 62, leapt
• Lapper, 133, 151. Not in N.E.D. Jam. to cover so as to clot. Lappered, coagulated, Ic. hlaup, a clot; lapper, a clot of blood—Edm.—still in common use. Cf. "lapiser't-milk"; Gael, clabar, mud; clabar bainne, clotted milk
• Lapper, 53, from lap, to fold, O.E. wlap, cf. lappel, lappet; Bu. to coagulate. "The thunner hiz lappert the milk."—Gregor
• Lapstane, 134, shoemaker's stone, held on the lap; from lap, a fold, an apron, or part covered by it. Not in Jam.
• Late, kit, layt, 184, Gu. N.E.D. has lait, to seek, try to find; O.N. leita=O.E. wlatian, Go. wlaiton, to behold, look round about, whence Go. wlits, the face. Go. lathon, to call, invite is not mentioned in this connection, as it is in the text (p. 184). See andawleizns, and wleiz
• Late, 28, slow, tardy. Go. lats, lazy or late, or. meaning; Du. laat, O.N. lat-r—form of let; Go. lêtan—primarily to let go through weariness; F. laisser, Lat. lassus
• Lauchin', 69
• Lauf-s, 12, pl. laub-os, Go. leaf, Sc. levis (pl), O.Fr. lâf, Du. loof, Ger. Laub
• Lave of the brock, 29, spec. Sc., Go. laibos gabruko, Go. laiba, Fr. láva, Eng. leave, what is left over
• †Lawd, lawdie, 18, 19, lad, boy. Cf. Go. jugga-lauths, a young man. "Quite inadmissible, both on ground of phonology and meaning, is current statement that lad is cognate with this. Go. lauths, of obsc. or."—N.E.D.
• Lay, 163, Kinc., Ger. Lade, box, chest, O.N. hlatha, shed, M.E. lathe, E. lathe
• Lays, 76, E. for lies
• †Lead, 27, 48, 182, Eng to conduct, O.E. laedan, Du. leiden, Ger. leiten; "wanting in Go.," says N.E.D., as given in the text, p. 27. Var. of leithan, to lead, has many derivatives
• Learn, 38, 87, 88, teach, Eng., or. obsc. in this sense, Ger. lehren, lernen, to be taught
• Lease, 48, 219, Eng. to glean. Go. lisan, to gather, Ger. lesen, to gather, read; cog. learn, lore, Sc. lair, C. Du. les, lees
• Leech, 27, N.E.D. "commonly regarded as a trans. use of leech, physician, but prob. originally distinct." Go. lêkeis, a healer, N. läka, to heal. Go. lekinon, to heal
• Leek-strae, 154, Orc. from leek (lich), a corpse
• Leem, 198, and C. Du., common in Teut.; cog. with Lat. limus, E. lime; Bu. a broken piece of crockery
• Leiks, 17, 40, Go. body; lyk, lykwake, leek, leek-strae, 154
• Lein, 26, 258, Go. linen, lint, Sc. flax plant, Eng. linen, Go. lein, also Eng. *line, Lat. linum, flax
• Len, 69, n. and v. lend, loan
• Lered, 38, O.E. learned, Sc. lair, Eng. lore. See lais, lore
• Lethir, 13, 15, ladder, Go. hlethra in hleithra-stakins (stakes), tabernacles; letherin, Fi., ledderin, Shet., a severe drubbing
• "Let on," 69, 88, to betray a fact by word or look: in N.E.D. under Eng. let, O.E. laetan, Du. latan, Ger. lassen. Go. lêtan
• Lettern, 73, precentor's desk, lectern
• Lewed, 4, lewd, illiterate, lered and lewed=clergy and laity
• Lib, 148, to castrate, Du. lubben, to maim

"Lib ye o' yere German gear."

"Old Song."

• Libel, 72, 84, Sc. law, indictment
• Libelled, 72, for labelled
• Licentiate, 75
• Lich-gate, 17, Eng. O.E. líc, a body, corpse (later sense), O.N. lik, Go. leih. See leiks, leek-strae, lyke-wake
• Licht, 12, Eng. light, O.E. léoht, Ger. licht, Go. liuhath, inliuhtjan=en-lichten enlighten
• Licht, 12, not heavy. Go. leihts
• Lids, 207, C. Du. le'e, Du. leden. See lith
• Lidy, 79, 84
• Liftin' (at the), 69
• Likdoorns, 210, C. Du. body-thorns=corns. See leiks, lyke-wake
• Like, 90. Not in N.E.D. in this sense
• Like, 35, 40, 76, Eng., as conj.
• Like, 40, 90, as adv., still heard in Ger.
• Likely, 68, 169, seemly, good Sc.; but N.E.D. says only "U.S. dialect," as verb, to lay to one's charge, "A wid a' niv'er tean't inta ma heid to hae likliet it till him."—Gregor
• Lily-oak, 121. N.E.D. laylock, obsc. and dial, form of lilac
• Limb of Sawtan, 137
• Limmer, 85, 137, a hussy; "obsc. or., conn, with limb, possible."—N.E.D.
• Linens, 15, 94, underclothing
• Lippen, 151, obsc. or., prob. cog. with Go. laub-jan, to trust, Ger. glauben, to believe
• Liquids (consonants), 82, 84, 111, effect on vowels
• Lisk, 172, the groin, O.E. leske. Da. lyske
• Lith, 27, 207, spec. Sc. a limb; O.Er. lith, Du. lid, Go. lithus, a limb, with pref. ge Ger. g-lied. Klüge says glied can hardly be from leiden, leiten, to go, as it is not confined to the "foot." He connects with limb through O.N. lim-r, limb, branch. See lids.
• Lithan, 48, A.S. to lead, to travel, go by water, laedan, to cause to go, i.e. conduct, all from base, lith, to go, as in Go. ga-leithan; A.S. lith-ulé, joint-oil
• Liths of an orange, 156, sections of; not in N.E.D. in this sense
• †Little, 29, Eng. a synonymous and phonetically similar adj., ¤litilo, as found in Go. leitils, is radically unconnected
• Little booket, 69, of small bulk
• Liuthâreis, 27, singers, liuthon, to sing. Go.; Du. and Ger. lied, A.S. lèoth, Go. ¤liuth
• †Loafer, 17, Eng., obsc. or.; not conn, with Ger. laufen.—N.E.D.
• Loaning, 200, 206, var. of loan, lane
• Loehans, 119, small lochs
• Lock, 181, in sense of "a lot."
• Lodd, lade, 48, load. Go. hlathan, A.S. hladan, Du. laden
• Long-settle, 180, Cu.
• Loo, 67, 139, 211, tepid; not in N.E.D.
• Loof, loofie, 17, 135, A.S. lôf, palm, Ic. lófi, Gael. lamh, whence lamh-ainn, a glove. Go. lofa, O.H.G. Laffa, blade of an oar
• Loon, 1, 137, obsc. or., loon-lookin' dog
• Loot, 32, to bend down, stoop, O.E. lutan. O.N. lúta. Go. liuta, a hypocrite. Not in N.E.D.
• Losh, 33, 86, 98; loshtie, exclamation, corr. of Lord
• Lost myself, 88
• Lot, 211, var. of lock, a quantity. See lucken
• Loupin-on-Stane, 201
• Lovenanty! 170, Lan.
• Lowe, 135, O.N. loge, Ger. Lohe, a flame; cog. Lat. lux, light
• Lowp, lowpin', 17, 33, 216, Go. hlaupan, to leap up, A.S. hleapan, to run, Ger. laufen, Du. loopen, E. leap
• Lowss, 13, Eng. loose, Go. laus, empty, vain, O.E. liesan, Du. loozen, Ger. lösen, Go. lausjan, to loosen, fra-lius-an; also in suff. los, less. Leasing, lying, is cog.
• Lozen, 139, lozenge as a window-pane
• Lucken, 181, 211, past part. of louk, lock. Go. ga-lukan, to close, us-lûkan, to open, O.N. lúka, cog. lock; Du. luiken, to close; Shet. to clutch; Ic. luka, locket, seized hold of.—Edm.; hence, Lucken booths, Lucken-gowan
• Lucy-awrnits, 123, "corr. of earth-nut; lousy arnut, tall oat-grass or pig-nut."—Jam.
• Luff, 207, C. Du.; in Sc. loof, which see
• Lugs, 79, ears, obsc. or.—superseded in Sc. by the older "ear"
• Lui, 194, C. Du. sluggish, same as lag, lag-gard, with elision of guttural
• Lum, 171, 209, Celt or. lit. "what projects"
• Lum-cleek, 208, C. Du. chimney hook -ly, 40, Eng. suffix
• Lyft, 23, spec. Sc. O.E. lyft, Ger. Luft, the sky, Go. luftus
• Lyke-wake, 17, 154, Ir. watch over a lich, leik, a dead body. See leiks. "The neighbour women used to come in and sit by the corpse in twos or threes all night."—Prof. Cooper

 

M

• M, 38, old dat. case; old customs in Moray
• Maak, 196, C. Du. and Sc. it is preferred to "do," Ger. machen
• Mael, 51, A.S. mark, token, meal at stated time. Go. mel, time, season
• Maich, maik, make, 19, Barb., O.E. ge-maec, equal, Ger. ge-mach, easy, comfortable—prim, sense "fit, suitable."— N.E.D.
• Maiden, The, 154, in Harvest Home. See clyack and kirn
• Maiden, 2, 19, a girl, O.E. maegden. Go. magaths. Ger. Magd and Mädchen are not identical with the Go.; has many forms in Go., as magus, lad, magula, lass, magathei, maidenhood, mawi, mawilo
• Mail, 23, rent, A.S. methel, market, O.N. mail speech, O.H.G. Mahal, assembly, O.E. maethel, discussion, mele, to speak, Go. mathl, market or meeting place. Go. faura-mathleis, chief speaker=fore-meler; M.E. mele, to speak
• Mail, 28, speck, spot; Klüge says, conn, with Go. mail, spot, uncertain, though sense is parallel: cog. A.S. mál, mole (on the skin). Ident. is mal, a "point" of time in ein-mal. Sc. eirn-mail is iron-mould or stain on linen
• Mairch, 22, border, boundary between properties, O.E. mearc, Du. and Ger. Mark, Go. marka, boundary, landmark
• Mailins, 146, a farm, as paying mail or rent in money. See mail

"Shore (threatened) to raise our mailins."

"Gentle Shepherd."

• Maill, 24, 253, Eng. meal. Go. malan, to grind in the mill
• Makkars, 98, 99, 102, makers=poets; Cf. Gr. ποιητής
• †Man, 11, 16, 79, 248, Go. manna, as an indef. pron, Ger. man; in compounds, -mana. N.E.D. throws doubt on the usual reference of the root to an Ind.-Ger. verb, to think, "though no plausible alternative explanation has been suggested"
• Man o' bizzness, 72
• Manage, 94, to get through with
• Manding, 75, memorising, Lat. mandare as in mandate. Not in Jam. or N.E.D.
• Mant, 105, tp stutter, Ga. and Ir. manntach, toothless, stammering, M.Ir. mant, the gum
• Mappies, 123, rabbits, imit. of nibbling action of lips. Not in N.E.D.
• Mareschal, 56, 63, 64, Eng.; O.F. mareschal, F. maréchal, Ger. Marschalks, lit. horse-servant
• Marm, 82, var. of madam
• Marra, 171, a companion, a match, as marra-less stockings, not a pair; Bu. marie, to variegate. Not in N.E.D.

"Whaur gat ye that winsome marrow?"

• Mathl, 23, Go. market-place; v. mathljan. See meljan and mail
• Mati-balg, 26, Go. a meat-bag=wallet
• Mauchie, 24, fulsome. Jam. moch, mochy; or. a heap (moist and rotting), moich, tainted meat; syn. humphy, Bu., to sniff as if at a fetid odour. "He's gey ill tae please wi's meat; for, fin gueede cabbitch wiz setten doon till 'm, he humpht at thim. A gae 'm naething else, an' he hid t' tak' a dish o' wint till's supper."—Gregor. See maihstus and mixen
• Maurthra, 13, Go. murder
• Mawkin, 129, the hare, for malkin, mollykin
• Mazle, mayzlin, mayzy, 172, Cu.
• Meal-ark, 24, meal-chest (Lat. area)
• Meal-bowie, 163, small cask for holding meal, any small barrel—

"The bowie briskly reams" (froths).

Ferg.

• Meal girnel, 155, garner or granary
• Meal's meat, 169
• Mebbes, 152, 169, may be it is
• Medial, 194, guttural elided in Taal
• Meedge, 140. No. meed, Da. mede. I heard it as a boy when boating with an old fisherman. In steering he took two points a-head, what he called a "meedge," and kept them in line. Jam. has meith, meeth, meth, Ic. mide, a mark, mida, to mark a place. See mett
• Meerder, 209, 219, 221, C. D. maar, Sc. mair, and="but" cf. F. mais
• Meerie, 223, C. Du. a little mare
• Meisjie, 205, C. Du.
• Mel, 51, Go. time. See mail, a speck, meljan
• Mele, 23, O.E. to speak, O.N. maéla, mail speech. See mail, rent
• Meljan, 51, Go. to be inscribed, mel, time. Ger. ein-mal, Eng. a meal; as mel originally denotes a fixed point, ana-meljan means to inscribe, mark with a note
• Mena, 23, Go. moon
• Mênoths, 254, Go. month, Ger. Monat
• Menownys, mennons, 62, minnons. See base in mins.
• Menshless, 87, without mense, good manners, discretion, Ic. mennska, humanity, mann-r, man, Ger. Mensch
• Mention, 88
• Mere, 19, the sea, Du. meer, Ger. Meer, Go. mari in mari-saiws, the sea; "conn, with Ind.-Ger. root, mer, to die, as the 'lifeless' one, is very doubtful."— N.E.D.
• Merrie-my-tanzie, 127
• Messer, 31, Ger. a knife, maz-sahs, meat knife. Go. mats, A.S. mete, E. meat, A.S. mete-seax. Go. mitan
• Methinks, 35, Eng.
• Mett, 69, 71, to measure, O.E. metan. O.Fr. meta, Du. meten, Ger. messen, Go. mitan. See meedge
• Michaelmas moon, 240
• Mikilins thiudanis, 13, 22, 32, 38, Go. the great king, Sc. muckle; mikilnan. Go. to be enlarged, O.E. micel, O.N. mykell, Go. mikil
• Milk, 32, O.Fr. melok, Du. melk (pron. melek). Go. miluks
• Mim-mou'd, mimp, 151, Cu. to talk mincingly; cf. mum, mim; prudish, reserved in discourse—

"A bit butt an' a bit ben
Maks a mim maid at the board en'."

Prov.

• Mind, mundon, 34, Go. to observe. N.E.D. under mind notes these forms.—Go. gamunds, memory, gaminthi, memory, gamunan, to think, remember
• Mink, 130, 148, Mo. a noose or headstall for a horse, monk in Fife, minkan-up, coiling a rope in the hand, mink up the coo's tether, a rinnin-mink=a slip-knot; Gael, muince, a collar, muin, the neck, the back
• †Mins, miniza, minists, 29, Go. N.E.D. does not connect mince with mins, which it traces to O.E. mincier. Mod. Fr. mincer, Lat. minutiare, but this last, cog. with Lat. minus, less, which is conn. with Go.
• Mint-cake, 185, Cu.
• Mischiévous, 84, Eliz., "stress on mid-syll. literary form till 1700, now dial. and vulgar."—N.E.D.
• Mise, 211, C. Du., prob. a var. of miser; cf. Sc. misert-pig, which see
• Misert-pig, Fi. syn. of pirlie-pig. See pig
• Mishanter, 92
• Mis-leared, 70, 136, badly brought up, mis-lered. See lair
• Mixen, 24, Eng. a dunghill, parallel stem in Go. maihstus. N.E.D. midden of Scand. or. from muck and dynge, thing or stuff. Da. a heap. From Go. comes, O.E. meox, filth, Fr. minks, and Sc. mauchie, q.v.
• Modags, 28, Go. angry, moody; cog. O.E. módig, Du. moedig, Ger. mutig, all in old sense of brave, high-spirited
• Modernised C. Du., 197
• Monk, 130, 140, 148, Fi. a head stall. See mink
• Monosy. prets., 36
• Mony, 29, 53, 63, 84, Eng. many, O.E. manig, Du. menig, Ger. manch. Go. manag-s, many and managei, a multitude; O.E. and Ger. menge—"Robin Hood and his merry menyie"
• Mooi, 222, C. Du.; Lat. mollis soft
• Moolins, 29, 123, crumbs, mool, to crumble (bread), var. of mould
• Mools, for muldes, 29, 74, the earth of the grave, burial, A.S. mold, dust, Go. mulda, muldeins, earthy; dial. var. of mould; moolie or mooly "not given at III. 305, Jam., soft, flabby, fozy. A moolie sort o' a chap=a duffer. The marbles, called commies as of common clay, sometimes known as moolies, if soft and ill-shaped. Mulie cheese is crumbling, friable." (J. B. F.)
• Mooss-fa, 124, 251, Ic. mus-föll, mûs, A.S.
• Mota, 23, Go. receipt of custom, mote, O.E. a village council, moot-hill; motareis. Go. a publican. N.E.D. gives M.E. mot, imot under moot, a public assembly, but offers no Go. connection
• "Mournings," 84, 94, in Sc. only in plural in sense of mourning dress
• Mozies, 172. Jam. "a being with silly intellect, Gael, muiseag, threatening;" var. mwozie, Cu.
• Muckle, mikils, 29, 38, Go. See mikilnan
• Mull, 74, snuff box, var. of mill
• Multiple-poinding, 72, Sc. law=action raised by holder of a fund to which there are several claimants
• Mun or maan, 103, must, used as auxiliary of the fut.=shall, will; or. sense "to intend," cog. with mind, to remember
• Munan, 26, Go. to think, O.N. muna, to remember, identical with munu, to intend, O.E. munan, to think, consider. Go. muns, mind
• Müne, 23, 81, moon. Go. mêna, men-oths, a month
• Munths, 17, Go. Sc. mouth, mou, mouth, Du. moud, Ger. Mund, Fr. mûth, cog. Lat. mentum, the chin
• Mussel-picker, 119, oyster-catcher
• Mussel scaups, 119, scaup, form of scaup, bed of shell-fish from the thinness of the layer
• My, 94, an emphatic—my dennir
• Myn-pachts, 211, C. Du.
• My san! My certe, 33, Exclamation equal to my certe, Eng. sooth. "In Jam. has to be looked for under certy." (J. B. F.)
   

N

• Naaste pad, 195, C. Du. neist, nighest path
• Nae, 90, no. Go. na. Sans. na. N.E.D. "Ne, obsol., is nea, North and Sc. Na, giving in Sc. nā, seems rather to be an alteration of ne than a genuine survival of the old form"
• Nap, 198, drinking cup, O.E., hnaep, Du. nap, Ger. Napf, obsc., O.H.G. hnap is O.F. hanap (see nappie). It. nappo, perh. borr. from Tent.
• Nap, 153, nip, pretended blow, spec. in "to give or take the nap"—knap, prob. var. of knap as subst., q.v.
• Nashince, 154, var. of nuisance, Bu.
• †Nasjands, 52, Go. the Saviour, Ger. ge-nieszen in text, but Klüge conn. ge-nieszen, to enjoy, with Go. niutan, to obtain, Ger. nützen, nützlich, useful, from an or. sense, to adapt to one's use, to use; cog. neat, nowt=cattle
• Near, 69, 137, stingy
• Nearder, 111, 167, 195, Cu.; C. Du. nar(d)er; Sc. nawrer
• Neb, 125, bird's beak, N. näf, Du. nebbe, O.E. nebb
• Necessar, 73, 92, var. of necessary
• †Neck, 160, 204, Du.; Ger. Nacken, Du. nek, summit of a hill pass. N.E.D. does not conn. with nick, notch
• Needle, nethla, 26, Go.
• Neef, 207, C. Du. knave, Ger. Knabe, Gael, cnapach, stout, knobby, in sense of well-grown
• Neem, 209, C. Du. See Nim
• Neeper, 74, 163, 195, neighbour, C. Du. and Sc. neebor; Bu. "Fah's yir neiper in the chop noo?"—Companion, bed-fellow—"She's awa noo, 'an for fifty years she's been a gweede neiper t' me."—Gregor
• Neepyin, 174, napkin, syn. hankie
• Neest, 195, ni(gh)est
• Neet, 175, Cu. night, Sc. nicht
• Negative qualities, 87, Sc. and Eng. for.
• Nein, 90, Ger.=nicht eines, Eng. "no" is A.S. ná, O.N. nei, Go. nê ni, Gr. νη, Lat. ne, in ne-fas
• Neither hup nor hie, 189, Bord.
• Neive, 17, fist, neif, pl. neiffis
• Neive-fou, 85, 138, 211, handful, M.E. neve, O.N. hneff cf. (Go. hamf-s, one-handed, 17 q.v.)
• "Neivvi-neivvi-nik-nak," 128. See neive
• Nek, 204, C. Du. See neck, neuk
• Ner, 168, Cu. nor after compar.
• Ner's pitten, 168, Cu.="nor" (than) "is put"
• Neuk, nook, 134, "obsc. but North."—N.E.D.
• Neukit, 88, in four-neukit. The common adjectival termin. here is seen in nakkit, naked, where Go. has nakwadis (a genit. case), a part. derivative form ¤nakw, naked. Klüge infers from these ancient forms that the primitive Teutons distinguished between clothed and unclothed
• Neuter of demonstratives, 38
• Newt, 148, 149, var. of evet, eft, O.E. efeta; of unknown or.
• Neyfs, 64, M.E. serfs, Lat. nativi
• Nibby stick, 174, Bord., with a crook
• Nicht, 12, 24, 254, night. Go. naht-s, Go. nahta-mats, supper
• Nicht, 207, C. Du. niece, gutt. out of dent., cf. queecht=quite. Go. nithjo.
• Nick, 160, notch, "obsc. but earlier than corr. verb notch, which is app. conn. with O.F. oche, F. hoche."—N.E.D. See neck
• Nickit baiks, 186, Fi. biscuits notched on edge
• Nicks, 185, Cu. nicked, nixes
• Niffering, 130, 187, bartering, "Sc. and North, obsc. perh. from neive."—N.E.D.
• Nim, 31, 209, Go. niman, to take, A.S. niman, O.N. nema, νέμος, a grove, Lat. nemus, Ger. nehmen, E. nimble, numb (past part, of nim), C. Du. neem
• Nip, 151, 153, "take a nip of one."—Bu. See nap
• Nirled catkins, 123, var. of gnarled
• Nirls, 138, measles; or. obsc.
• Niu-klahs, 32, Go. new klekkit=new-born
• Nocht, 12, 63, 138, 209, nought, O.E. nówiht=ne+a'wiht, A.S. na-wiht. nauht, Go. ne+waiht-s, Du. niet, E. not, Sc. nochtie, paltry
• Non-plush, 84, var. of non-plus. Not in Jam.
• Noo (the), 90, just now, Du. nu, Go. nu, as "tho nu hweila," the noo while, or time
• Noos and thans, 167, now and then
• Nor, 90, for than. N.E.D. "Sc. and dial. of obsc. or."
• Nose o' wax, 136, 140, a numskull. Not in Jam.
• Notour, 72, Sc. law, bankrupt, notorious
• Nowt, 82, 153, nolt (by a false analogy), O.N. naut, O.E. neat, or. sense, to enjoy or possess. N.E.D. has "nait, Sc, good at need," as v. "to make use of,"—from Go. niutan, O.E. néotan, to enjoy

 

O

• O, vowel, name sound of, 81
• O, vowel, long sound of, 80
• †Ocht, 209. See aacht, iets
• 'Ods wuns, 173, Cu. an oath; cf. "loot a wince," Burns. Both may be a corruption of "(God's) wounds"
• Oena, 153, an old Sc. prep.=without; generally as a prefix, and syn. with affix, -less; v. common in Go. as un, e.g. un-agands, fearless, Ger. ohne, Gr. ἄνευ, preserve the prep. use
• Of, 219, C. Du. for conj. or
• Ogan, 30, 51, Go. to dread, ogjan, to cause to fear, agis, awe; cf. ug-some and ug-ly, Ic. ugg-r, fear. See agis, awe, ug
• Ogha, 63, Gael, grandchild, -oy
• †Ogre, 30, not conn. with Go. agan, to dread, but with Lat. orcus, a late borrowing from F. and It.—Skeat
• Ogre, Oagar-hiuuse, Orc., 154. If, as Skeat says, ogre is F. and a late borrowing, it can hardly be "oagar," here. More likely this is from Ic. ugg-r, fear, and cog. with ugly, ug-some
• Oheim, oom, 247. See eem, eyme
• Oksel, 207, C. Du. oxter, Sc.
• Omniefeeshent, 122
• On, 89, prep., e.g. "married on"
• Onbonny, 90, 140, on=without, Ger. ohne, A.S. un and bonny
• Oncanny, 90, on=without, Ger. ohne, A.S. un=
• Oncast, 92, cast on, term in stocking-knitting
• Once-t, 35, once, also aince, yince
• Oncost, 92, initial charges in running a mine, &c.
• Onding, 153; cf. ding on; ding, prob. onomat.
• Onneat, 90, on=without, Ger. ohne, A.S. un
• On-weiss, un-wîse. Go. un-weis=without wis-dom
• Oogst, oest, 199, C. Du. August, in S. Afr. autumn, harvest
• Oo'ies, 194 C. Du.
• Oon, 24, oven, Go. auhn, Arthur's oon or hove, near Falkirk, built of hewn stone, without mortar, long ago destroyed utterly
• Oot, out, prep. e.g. "oot (o') the hoos," "oot amon' thae neeps"
• Ootliggers, out-liers, 173, Cu.
• Ootners, 170, Cu. out-landers
• Oot-weel, 171, Cu. for wale oot
• Op-sit, 218, C. Du. Cu. "sittin up," W. "bundling"; Sc. up-set, feast on admission to burgess freedom
• Orātor, 80, Eng.
• Ordinar, 92, ordinary
• Orpiet, 248. See arbi, erd, yirp
• Orra-man, 66, farm hand for odd jobs, orrie, unmatched, spare, syn. marra-less; prob. from A.S. orrawa, Go. us, out and row or series. In Jam. nine meanings are given (Jam. III. 401), but none exactly applicable to Scott's lines:—

"Donald Caird finds orra things,
Whaur Allan Gregor fand the tings."

J. B. F.

• Othal, 10, Rune-letter, heirloom. Orc. udal, tenant right, udaller, landowner
• Ou, oude, 207, C. Du. old, as familiar form of address
• Ou (die), ouwe, or oudeman, 191, 192, C. Du.
• Ouk, oulk, 153, a week; cf. ouf-dag, the wolf-dog. Same as week. Ouk is a very old and widely prevalent form in Sc.; now only Aber.; Go. wiko, Ger. Woche, wouke in Chaucer, and uge=vuge in Da. "Pasche olk; olkis, olkly," St. And. K. S. R.
• Outliers, oot-lers, (Burns), 62, 173
• Outspans, 203, C. Du. See spang
• Over-sell or Iver-sell, 147, Mo. See sell, sells and thrammels
• Over-wiseness (Eliz.), 84
• †Own, 38 (rhymes with down), to own, possess, A.S. agn-ian, to own, Go. aigin, possessions, aigan, to possess, pret. aihta. See aacht
• Owre blate, 137, over modest
• Owsen, 23, var. of oxen, Ger. Ochsen, Go. auhsa- Sans, ukshan, a bull. See ox

"When owsen frae the furrow free
Return sae dowf an' weary—O."

"Ball."

• †Ox, 250=the carrier. Skeat derives from Sans. uksh, to sprinkle, not from veho, as in the text, and "therefore is ult. cog. with humid." Kl. says, "Or. from Sans. ukshan, ox, root uks, to sprinkle, or uks, to grow strong, and a masc. form of vacca, cow." Sans. uhsan, page 17, is misprint for ukshan, a bull
• Oxter, 17, 207, armpit. Go. ams-a for ahsl-a, Ger. Achsel, tbe shoulder, under which word Kl. says: "Go. ¤ahsla for I.-Ger. aksla, Lat. axilla and ala, Du. oksel"
• -Oy, -oe, 63, grandchild, Gael. ogha
• Oylé, 211, Lat. oleum, Sc. ile. In early use, but, as in Go. alew, olive oil=ἔλαιον, is borrowed from the Greek
• Oyster-catcher, or mussel-picker, 119

 

P

• Paard, 201, C. Du., Ger. Pferd, a horse
• Pachter, 212, Kl. "Ger. Pacht, under L. Ger. influence, as Du. pacht is derived from Lat. pactus, a bargain struck;" cf. Sc. paction
• Pad, 209, C. Du. path
• Paecan, 71, M.E.; cf. Gael. bocan, a spectre
• Paeg, 70, Da.
• Paidlin, 169, paddling
• Paiks, 137, 179, a drubbing, or. uncert.; Jam. conn. with Ger. pauken, to beat a drum
• Pains, 139, ague, rheumatism
• Paith, 118, 120, path, Ger. Pfad. See pad
• Palall, 127, syn. beds, a sort of shovel-board game with the feet; cf. pall-mall. "Pal-lall, surely the common name peever should have been given here. The game is pal-lall, the piece of stone, slate, &c. is the peever." (J. B. F.). See peevor.
• Pandies, 135, 155, syn. pawmies, Lat. pande palmam, extend the palm
• Pannsl, 72, Sc. law, the accused
• Partan's-taes, 123, crab's toes, Celt. or.
• Particles with verb (Scots), as in Ger., 92
• Pash, 15, 227, Go. paska, Easter (Gr.)
• Passive inflection, 38
• Past participle in -ed., 88
• Pat, puttit, 88
• Pattle, 160, stick to clear away before the plough. Paddle, "a farmer wi' a hand that never held pleugh stilt or pattle, that'll never do."—Scott
• Pawkiness, 69
• Pawky, 179, sly, artful; paik, a trick, v. to deceive

"A thief sae pawkie is my Jean,
She'll steal a glance by all unseen."

Burns.

• Pawn, Pawnd, 155, vallance round a bed; Lat. pendo
• Pea-jacket, paida, 19, 206, Go. a coat of skins. "In Du. pij (pron. pie), and L.Ger. a woollen jacket. Go. paida translates χιτόν, a coat; conn. is βαίτη."—Sk.
• Peasie, 148, pease! as a cry to pigeons. In Fi. Pud-pud!
• Pech, 122, to draw a deep breath—echoic
• Pecht, pechs, elves, 71, 132, sometimes identified with the aboriginal Picts
• Peeack, peck, 150, to speak with a small voice, pee-akin
• Peeay, 70, Forf. Jam. "peeoy, pioye, a little moistened gunpowder formed into a pyramidal shape and kindled at the top," still used in Forf., var. poother deil
• Peel-wersh, -welsh, 150, sickly in appearance, peel=peerie, small, thin and wersh, insipid
• Peeler, 140, crab when changing its shell
• Peelie-wally, 150, syn. peel-wersh
• Peen, preen, 81, 93, a pin, Gael. prine, A.S. preon, Ger. Pfriem, an awl, Ic. prioun, Ic. prjoun, a needle

"I'd locked my heart in a case of gowd,
An' preened it wi' a siller preen.

"Ball."

• Peer, peerie, 127, 132, 133, 155, Orc. little—"A peerie, byauch, small child or a puny calf," Orc.—Jam.
• Peerie or peerlie-winkie, 136, 150, the little finger, N. peerie, small; syn. croonie-doodlie, pirlié-winkle, pinkie; "not given in Jam. An' wee croonie-doodlie pays for a'." (J. B. F.). See crine
• Pees-weet, 125, 156, peesweip, peeweip; echoic word, sometimes given as Sc-Fr. from "dix-huit!" the bird's cry
• Pell, 71, Fi. very salt. Jam. "as bitter's pell, as salt's pell." See fill
• Pennies each, 85, 94, 167, idiom
• Pennart, 140
• Penny, 67, in proverb
• Penny whaup, 132, var. of whip, weakest kind of small beer
• Perjink, 136, finical, particular
• Phillybags, 178, Cu.
• Pickeln, 71, to play the fool; pickle, in a sorry plight; Du. pekel, "pekelen," Ger. Pökel, brine, pökeln
• Pieg, 70, Orc., var. of pug, a form of puck, an imp
• Pig, 92, an earthen vessel. Gael. pigadh, pigeadh, piggin; history obsc.
• Pillow-cod, 58, pillow slip. See cod
• Pioo, 70, Orc. small quantity. See peeay
• Pirlie-pig, 130, earthenware vessel for keeping money; var. of peerie, small, and pig, a pot. See pig and misert-pig. Not in N.E.D.
• Place, 212, C. Du., Ger. Platz, Lat. platea. Go. platijo, street-corner, a borr. word
• Playfares, 127, companions
• Play yersels, 169, Fi. give yourselves play-time
• Pley, 72, a quarrel, plea
• Pliskie, 139, a mischievous trick. N.E.D. "or. unknown"

"Pretty pliskies you've been at the day."

Stevenson, "Wrong Box."

• Ploat, 66, 67, 116, 130, 133, to scald, soak; app. var. of plout, plouter, to splash
• Plooms, 163, plums
• Ploy, 171, a social frolic, A.S. plegan, to play. N.E.D. "of uncert. or."
• Plunk, 122, to play truant, Du. plencken, to straggle, wander. N.E.D. "or. obsc."
• Plural, 94, in distributive sense
• Plural present in verb, 168, in s
• Poalie-finger, 66, Fi. a lame finger. Jam. "paulie, feeble, lame; subst. slow, inactive person; paulie-footit, flat-footed." Not in N.E.D.
• Poddlies, 140, young cole-fish
• Poinding, 72, Sc. law, pünd, O.E. pyndan, to enclose in the pind or pound
• Pointet, 88, tidy
• Policy, 94, pleasure grounds. "This sense influenced by politus, polished, late Lat. polities, elegancy."—N.E.D.
• Poother, 14, powder
• Popular sayings, 197
• Portioner, 72, Sc. law, feuar, small landowner
• Pothy, 176, apothecary
• Pots, 187, Cu.
• Pouk, powk, 71, a pustule; prob. Teut. stem, pug, puk, to swell up, pug, a monkey, Puck, a sprite. Of Celt. or. Du. and Ger. spuk, N. spjok, represent Scand. development. Pixie—"or. obsc." N.E.D. See spook
• Praett, 93, guile, trick. A.S., praetig, cunning, Norse pretta, a trick, Sc. protticks, Eng. pretty, not Ger. prächtig
• Prappin, 124, setting up as a mark for stone-throwing. There is a Gael. prap, quick, sudden. Not in N.E.D.
• Precentor, 73, leader of singing in church
• Pree, 97, 171, to try by tasting; var. of preive, by-form of prove—"The proof o' the puddin's the preein' o't."—Prov.
• Prepositions, use of, 89, 91
• Preses, 72, president, Sc. law term
• Preterite or past time, 35, 37
• Pretty, 93, O.E. praettig, crafty, Ic. prett-r; trick, Du. pret, joke, pratte, cunning. Sense development active after 15th c. Gael. prattick in text for protaig, and prob. a borrowed word
• Prigging, 154, higgling over a bargain; or. obsc.
• Primitive relative, 39
• Probationer, 75, 76, preacher licensed but not ordained to a benefice
• Process, 72, Sc. law
• †Prochen, 160, Gael. brochan; not conn. with E. broth
• Proheebit, 88, prohibited
• Pronominal particle, 39
• Prooie! 148, call to a cow. Jam. ptru, ptroo, pru. Cf. trooie, and its var. treesh, Ab.
• Protticks, 93
• Proudflesh, 139, inflamed flesh on a cut, likely to become gangrenous
• Prove, 73, put to proof
• Proverbial sayings, 67
• Publict, witht, 12, 194
• Pucklie, 138, 145, a grain of corn, a small quantity; var. of pickle

"There was an auld wife hed a wee pickle tow."

"Old Song."

• Puddocks, 121, frogs; E. paddock, a toad, M.E. padde, Du. padde, pad; "root spad, to jerk, the one that moves by jerks."—Sk.

"There dwelt a paddie in a well."

"Folk Rhymes."

• Puggie, 66, 70, applied to a tipsy man,—"a bonnie-like puggie he made o' himsel'." (J. B. F.) In my native village "Pug" Mailin (Melville), a pensioned soldier, got his nickname from his favourite expression for a dram
• Pumfle, 65, penfold
• Puny, 133, Fr. puis né, puîné, Lat. post natus, born after
• Pussy bawdrons, 135. See bawdrons
• Putten, 36, for put

 

Q

• Quaich, 68, Gael cog
• Quantity, 94, Sc. for ———
• Quarrel, 92, idiom
• Quean, 16, 18, young woman, Go. qwen-s, qwein-s, a woman, A.S. cwén, Gr. γυνή, queen, "quinon widuwon," Go. a widow woman
• Queet, 152, Ab. cüte, ankle. This is the pron. of the N.E. proverb, "Better be oot o' the queets than oot o' the fashion." See cüte
• Quern, 160, 253, Go. kwairnus, a meal-mill, E. cor-n, ker-nel, churn, Sc. kirn, Ic. kirna; or. to curdle or form into curds (cf. Sc. curn, corn), Du. kern, grain. See asila-quairnus
• Quhway, 78, quey, heifer
• Quickens, 145, 182, couch-grass; from quick, living

 

R

• R, 80, effect on contiguous vowels
• Raaga, 133, Orc. youngest of a litter, Gael, ruig, ruige, a wrigling. See wrig
• Racial heredity, 103
• Rackon, 169, Cu. reckon
• Raenen, reen, 136, 140, noise. Jam. has rane, reane, tedious, idle talk, to rane or cry the same thing over and over again. Conn. are Sc. roun, to whisper, E. round, Ger. raunen—all from AS. rún, a mystery
• Rag-wort, 123, 148. See bun-weed, weebie
• Raid, redd, reddin' up, 62, 68, 180, 198, separate, "redd a pley," settle a broil: or. sense, to put in order, make ready
• Rain, 2.3, rign. Go.; rain, Du. and Ger. Regen
• Ramsch, 136, to eat voraciously, with noise; Ic. hramms-a, to snatch violently, prob. onomat.; Shet. rampse, disagreeable to taste. Da. ram, rank, harsh
• Rand, 70, C. Du.
• Rands, 134, a narrow stripe; ründ, selvage of a web. See ründ
• Randy, 85, 137, a scold; Gael, ranntaich, a songster, from rann, a quatrain, stave. See rune
• Rannel-trees, 181-3, and Cu. rannlebauk, on which the crook hangs. Perhaps Ic. rann, a house, and tjalgr, a prong, fork: rand end and A.S. thil joist; Randle-tree, Scott
• Rannie, 122. Reiny, rennie, the shrew (Shet.)
• Rantin kirn, 107, boisterously convivial harvest-home. See kirn
• †Raus, 12, 202, Go. a reed. Roer, C. Du. a gun (now obs.), Ger. Rohr. "Not conn. with E. rush."— Sk.
• Ream, 68, 132, cream; Du. room, A.S. réam, O.N. rjome, Ger. Rahm. Not conn. with cream
• Reamed, 68, 132, 156, creamed; reamin, frothing over
• Reekt, 105, reached; Go. rikan, †raikjan, A.S. raecan, reach. Klüge—"Go. here not cog. with Ger. reichen." Or. sense "to attain to." Sc. a rake of coals, &c., is a journey with horse and cart to the coal-hill
• Reconise, 83, recognise
• Red, rede, to explain, unfold, n. counsel

"To a red man, rede thy rede,
With a brown man break thy bread,
At a pale man draw thy knife,
From a black man keep thy wife."

(J. B. F.)

• Rede, 52, 198, counsel, read a riddle; Go. rathjô, a number, ga-rathjan, to count; borrowed from Lat. ratio, but Kl. says "or. conn. with ratio is unthinkable"
• Reduplication, 35, 36
• Reed, 65, sheep or cattle reed, coal-ree, a permanent pen; prob. ident. with Pictish rath, a camp
• Reek, 25, 171, 208, 256, smoke; Go. rikwis, darkness, Du. rook, Ger. Rauch; or. sense "what dims, mist"
• Reên baatjes, 207, C. Du. rain-coats
• Reenge, rinse, 13, Go. hrains, O.N. hreinsa, to cleanse, Du. rein, Ger. rein, pure; the Sc. may be but a var. of range
• Reese, roose, 68, 106, to praise, Ic. hress, reisa, to excite

"There's nane that reads them far and near,
But reeses Robie."

Skinner.

• Reeshle, 13, for rustle, from rush, Go. hrishjan
• Reesht and reet, 171, Cu. for right
• Reflexive forms, 37
• Reiki, 255, Go. a kingdom, cf. bishopric, root, to rule
• Reik-s, 22, 29, Go. rich, powerful, Ger. reich, A.S. rice, Du. rijk, cog. Lat. rex
• Reim, 202, rim (of the abdomen), the peritoneum, rim-bursin=hernia, Jam., reimpje, C. Du.
• Reipet, 123, ripe, to search, A.S. hrypan, Ic. hrifa, to grapple, seize, cf. E. rifle
• Residenter, 92, resident
• Rest Harrow, 123
• Revlins, 208, Orc. home-made shoes
• Rib-wort, 123, 154, 163
• Rig-end, 13, 129, end of the furrow, cog. rig-gin, ridge
• Rig-gin, 13, the back, ridge of a house, Ger. Rücken, Du. rug, A.S. hryeg, E. ridge, O.N. hryggr, E. rick, A.S. hreac
• Rig-welted, 189, Cu. syn. of "awal." See rig, and, for welted, cf. welter
• "Rig woodie," 107-130, rope of withes crossing back or riggin of a yoked horse
• Ringle-e'd, 140, wringle-e'd. Jam. "having a great proportion of white in the eye of horses" and collies. Conn. with ring, but cf. wring, deformity, blemish in "Poems of 16th C." The disease glaucoma
• Rinnin-mink, 148, a slip noose on a halter. See monk and mink
• Rin the cutter, 137, to fetch whisky in small bottle. Not in Jam.
• Rise, 127, a branch. A.S. and O.N. hris, Du. rijs, from Go. hrisjan, A.S. hrissan, rustle, Ger. Reis, literally the "swaying one"
• Risket (Burns), 66, riasg, Gael. and Ir., land covered with sedge or coarse grass, ident. with rush, A.S. ris-ce, Du. and Ger. Rusch
• Rizzar, 121, 126. Jam. rizards, rizzer-berries. See "rise"
• Rock, 161, distaff, Ic. rokk-r, Du. rokken
• Boden, 159, 160, rowan-tree, Gael. ruadh with post-positive article=the "red" one; rowan is Scan.-Da. rön, the service or sorb tree
• Rodith, 27, 52, Go., from Go. rodjan, to speak, Ger. reden
• Roef, 207, C. Du. See roof
• Roes, roose, 71, 210, C. Du.; E. rouse, drinking-bout, Ork. ruz, to praise, boast, Ic. hrósa, rouse, Shak.
• Rogaim, 124, Ir. rag-wort
• Rohr, 12, Ger. a reed. Go. raus, Du. roer, Fr. roseau. Kl. says, "wanting in A.S. and E." See raus
• Roid, 137, rude. A.S. rethe, fierce, rough, royet, romping, tomboyish: prob. var. of rude, Fr. roide, strong, Lat. rigidus
• Royet, 69, riotous
• Roof, 13, 25, O. Fr. hrof, Du. roef, hrot, Go. roof, roost; hrost, L.Ger. (Heliand)
• Rooi-baatje, 206, C. Du. red-coat
• Roopie, 13, hoarse from a cold, Go. hropei
• Roopit, 13, 88, croaking, throaty. Go. hropei, a harsh cry, hropjan, to crow, roup, to auction
• Roost, 25, O. Du. roest or hinnen-kot, hen-roost. See roof
• Rose, 139, erysipelas, from the red appearance
• Roset, 134, Gael, rosead, resin
• Roun or round, 9, to whisper, A.S. runian, to whisper, run, a mystery
• Rounders, 155
• Row, 80, roll
• Rugg'd, 223, 224, rug, C. Du. back, Sc. riggin, Ger. Rücken
• Rummle-gumshon, 136, rum-gumpshon, common sense, A.S. rum-welle, spacious, and Go. gaum-jan, to perceive
• Run-deils, 70, 137. See rüns, ründs
• Ründs, 70, 134, 137, Ger. Rand, fringe, border, Du. rand, corner, border, A.S. rond, Go. randa, O. Teut. ram-ta, A.S. rima, reoma; m before d becomes n; var. runes, 202
• Rung, 13, 32, 36, hrugga, Go., Ic. röng, a rib in a ship, Ger. Runge, short piece of iron or wood, still used in E., Du. and Ger. shipbuilding
• Runt in kale-runt, 68, 123. Jam. tree-trunk, hardened stalk, stem of colewort, Ger. Rinde, crust, cog. rand, ründ, A.S. reoma, rim in sense of end, Go. rimis, rest, Sc. runch, wild mustard
• Rush, rustle, 13, A.S. hrysian, to rush. Go. hrishjan, to shake, Sc. reeshle
• Rust-platz, 195, C. Du. resting-place

S

• Sach, 217, C. Du. sighed, sooched
• Sackless, 182, Cu.
• Saep, 210–11, Du. zuipen
• Sair, 97, sore
• Saiw-s, 19, Go. the sea
• Salmonys, 62, salmons. Barb.
• Salt, 168, Go.; Ger. Salz, Cu. sote
• ''Sand bed o' drink, 137, 140, a dipsomaniac
• Sandy Cam'l, 133, the pig
• Sa'r, 105, savour
• Sargent, 11, sergeant
• Sarrat, 153, Cu. served
• Sarvent, 82, servant
• Sauch, 252, M.E. salwe, sallow
• Sauchie, 217
• Sauil, 19, 255, Go. sun, Lat. sol
• Saut, 253
• Saut backit, 155, salt-bucket
• Saut-girnal, 135, box for salt, girnal=garnel, granary
• Saut's pell, 71. See pell
• Saw, 67, cf. saw-dust
• Saw, 139, salve, ointment, Lat. salvus
• Saw, 13, 23, 253, sow. Go. saian, to sow, pres. part, saiand=the Sower in parable
• Sawmon-loup, 125, a Lan. boys' game
• Saws, 67, maxims, Ic. saga, Ger. sagen, to say
• Sawtan, 70, Satan, pron. under influence of Heb. Satnanas, "limb o' Sawtan"
• Scabbet, 68, scabbed
• Scallog, scoloc, sgalag, 63, 64, N.Gael., husbandman, serf
• Sch-, for primitive sk-, 195, C. Du.
• Schade, 70, 195, Ger.; Sc. scaith, scaid
• Schalk, 56, 63, 64, O.T. skalko-s, servant, O.E. sceale, Ger. Schalk, rogue. See mareschal
• Sconce, 180, Cu.; Ger. Schantz, E. en-sconce
• Shilpit, 223, C. Du. schuilpaat, skulpad
• Schulze, 64, Ger., village bailiff
• Scimes, skeima, 29, Go. lantern, shimmer, A.S. scima, light, Ger. schimmern
• Sclitter, 151, Cu.; Sc. sclither, sclidder, to slip to right and left in walking, akin to slide, Ger. Schlitt-schuhe=skates
• †Scot-free, 26, is not conn. with Go. skatts as in text. Skeat conn. with A.S. scot. (soeotan, to shout), payment, shot; the same sense and cog. forms are in Teut. generally
• Scrabs, 114, 163, Kinc. var. of scrubs, shrubs
• Screed, 13, skreitan. Go. to shred
• Scuddy, scrimpit, 151, Mo. syn. jimp
• Seap, 123, Orce. sab., to soak
• Seapt, 122, soaked
• Sedimateesed, 110
• Seekin, 173, North.
• Seen, 36, for saw
• Seek sorry, 137, 140, very unwilling
• Se'erday, 83, Lan. Saturday
• Seestu, 170. See you!
• Seggs, 119, sedges
• Selch, 217, Bu.
• Sele, sale, sells, 147, a rope, cattle-yoke, cog. with σειρά, a cord, Ger. Seil. See over or iver-sells (Bu.). See sells and thrammles (Ab.). Go. in-sailan, to let down with ropes, A.S. sal, N. seil, Ind.–Ger. root, "to bind"
• Set, sat, 61, to become a person. "Gae hame, gudewife; it wad better set ye to be nursin' the gudeman's bairns than to be deavin us here."—"Waverley."
• Settle, 135, Go. sitls, a throne, Ger. Sessel
• Settle, 24, Go. sitan, to sit
• Sgeilm, 222, Gael. See skellum
• Shack, 64, E. dial. Colonial syn. for shanty
• Shanks, 163, old name for stockings, A.S. scanea, the bone of the leg, E. shin. Shank-wiving—"Ane par worsit schankis to my page."—17th c. diary
• Shan't can dea't, 169, Cu.
• Sharg, 133, Orc. petulant
• Shargar, 133, Ang. the youngest of a litter, a lean person, Gael. searg, to wither, O.Ir. illness, O.H.G. suërcan, become gloomy. "A peer shargart thing."—Gregor
• Sheelin, 146, shelling or winnowing hill
• Sheep-ree, 65, sheep-fold. See Reed
• Shelly-coat, 140, kind of moth
• Sheppert, Cu. shepherd
• Shilpit, 223, shilpie, "shrunk, shrivelled, thin, pinched-looking about the face" (J. B. F.). See skulpad
• Shim, 146, North., a drill harrow, a shim plough. Not in Jam.
• Shirk, 182, Cu., cf. Ger. Schurke
• Shoo, 28, to frighten
• Shoo, 13, to sew. Go. siujan
• Shools, 118, shovels
• Shoother, 14, shoulder
• Shot, 133, 182, a young pig, still commonly used in America
• Shrank, 205, C. Du.
• Shukkie mill, 159, Kinc. call of the wood worm as sign of approaching death; perhaps a var. of shoggle, to shake, but shoog, a fright, gives a better sense. Not in Jam.
• Shut, 208, a sliding window; schut, Bord. a wooden screen, A.S. scéotan, shoot, Du. schut, a fence, screen; shottles, sliding drawers
• Shuvve, skiuban, 13, Go. to shove, A.S. scofian, Du. schuiven, Ger. schieben
• Sib, 22, 255, related. Go. sibja, blood relationship, Ger. Sippe; common in A.S., Fris., Du., Kr., O.N. Sif, honoured as goddess of the family. "But they micht be brocht to think themselves that sib that no Christian will permit their wedlock."—Scott, "Ant." Sib—"A' Stuarts are nae sib tae the King; a' the Campbells are sib tae Argyll." (J. B. F.)
• Sic, swilk, swa-leik, 40, such, Go., Ger. solcher
• Siccan, 169, such an
• Sicken, 84, thicken
• Siena yin, 167, such an one
• Sidelights on social history, 92
• Sied, 68, 132, strained; var. of sieve, Du. zeef, Ger. Sieb, E. sift
• Siggwan, 27, Go. to read, E. sing; or. sense simply to resound
• Siggwan bokos, 27, Go.
• Sik, 39, Go. reflexive pron.
• Silly, sels, 28, Go. happy, blessed, Ger. selig, A.S. sel, good. Sal! expletive
• Silubr, 26, Go. silver, money, as Sc. siller
• Sime, synu, simmons, 62, 181, Caith. ropes of heather. Ic. sime, a rope, Barb.; Kl. sub saum, a pack-horse load, notes A.S. séam, E. seam (cf. sumpter), and regards saum as existing before the break-up of the Teutons. He traces it to σάγμα, Lat. sauma, a pack-saddle
• Singles, 129, bundles of gleaned corn, lit. gathered in single ears
• Sinteino, 13, 20, 56, Go. daily, always. Go. sinth, a journey, time, sinthan, to go, cog. with send (Go. sandjan). Syne and since are cog. with Go. seithu, late, A.S. sith, after, Ger. Seit
• Sinthan, 56, Go. to go, wander, cog. sandjan, send, A.S. sithian, to go. See sinteino
• Sista, 170, Cu., syn. of seestu!
• Sitls, 25, Go. bench
• Sittin' in, 172, Sc. idiom, "sittin' in to the bottom"
• Siujan, 26, Go. sew. See sew
• Skaetchers, 129, skates; Jam. has skeitches
• Skaiths, 70, injuries. Go. skathjan, to do scathe to, A.S. sceththan, Ger. Schade, scathe. "Better twa skaiths than ae sorrow."—Prov. See scaith
• Skal, skeal, 179, a bumper, Go. skalja, Ic. skjola, also scoll, skiel, A.S. sceălu, scyl, E. shale, shell; "a skimming dish"—Sibbald. Gael. scala, a bowl, skalis, goblets.—Royal House. Accs. 1511.
• Skalkinoda, skalkinon, 28, 56, 64, Go. to serve, served, Ger. Schalk; skalks, Go. See schalk, mareschal
• Skap, 13, C. Du. sheep
• Skattja, 26, Go. money-changer
• Skatts, 26, Go. money, Ger. Schatz, O.N. skatt-r, rent, A.S. scéatt, piece of money. Scatt-hold is well known in Orc. land-holding
• Skeef, skeigh, 216, C. Du.
• Skeelyie, 25, 155, slate pencil, skaillie, skailyie; cog. is shell, a scale or husk, A.S. scell, Du. schel, Ic. skel; or. sense, to peel off. Go. skaljas, tiles
• Skelbs, skelve, scab, 139, splinters of wood, a thin slice, a splinter of wood, Du. schelpe, a shell, Ger. Schelfe, a husk
• Skellocks, 64, 128, Fi. skellock, skeldock, skellie, wild mustard, Ir. skeal-lagach; cf. E. charlock
• Skellum, 63, 221, 222, rogue, Ger. and Du. Schelm, Ic. skelmir. Not in Jam.
• Skelly-eyed, 174, Cu. and Bord.
• Skelps, 137, blows with open hand; Gael. sgealb, is borrowed from Sc.
• Skemel, 180, 182, Cu. shemels, shambles
• Skiddaw Gray, 179
• Skite, 134, a squirt from the mouth, Ic. skvetta, to squirt, var. of shoot
• Skohsl, 28, Go. a demon, Scheu-sal, Ger. Scheuche, a scarecrow, from scherren, to shoo, scare
• Skriners, 195
• Skrire, 195, Du. skrij, Ger. schreiben
• Skuft, 19, Go.; Ger. Schopf, a top-knot, O.N. skopt
• Skulpad, 223, C. Du.
• Skura, 13, Go. skura windis, a storm of wind; winthi-skauro, a winnowing fan, Du. schoer, Sc. shoor. Still in C. Du. as Groote Schoor, famous home of Cecil Rhodes
• Skybels, 115, 182, Cu. skybald, a mean, worthless fellow. Da. skabhals, a rascal
• Skylark, the, 126
• Slaan, 195, C. Du., Ger. schlagen
• Slack, 198, in place-names. For metaphor, cf. gorge, gully
• Slabbery, 151, Mo. slobbery, app. to supping ungracefully
• Slag, 198, 222, C. Du. Cf. Ger. schlucken, to swallow, Sc. "slocken drooth," quench thirst
• Slakan, 30, Go. to strike, Ger. schlagen, slay, C. Du. slaan, E. slog; "slaying mutton on Sabbath."—Elg. K.S. Recs."
• Slang, boys', 109
• Slap, 208, a gap
• Slaup, 36, Go. slipped
• Sledderkin, 186, Cu.
• Sledders, 186, Cu.
• Slider, 186, Lan. of the ice-cream man, var. slithery
• Slijp, slyp, 66, 212, a sledge, Ger. schleifen, to draw, Du. slijpen, E. slip, slippers. See Slip-a
• Slim, 207, C. Du.; Ger. schlimm, E. slim; or. sense, slack, oblique, crafty, slender. Du. and Ger. retain the sense of "crafty"
• Sliob, 66, Ir. sliobhaim, to polish
• Slipa, 66, N. whet, i.e. to make slippery or smooth, Du. slijpen; or. sense, to glide, in Ayrsh. app. to a sledge, Cu. slape-shod, shoes worn smooth
• Slipan, 66, A.S. slip, in Sc. to polish, sharpen. Cf. Du. slijpen, in Sc. to slide, slipe, a sledge
• Slippy, 92, slippery
• Slive, 173, sliver, a twig (Shak.), M.E. sliuen, to cleave, split
• Slocken, sloken, 198, 222. See slag
• Sloongin, Slinge, 137, 172, going about in indolent manner; slung, a tall, lank booby; Ab. cog. slink
• Sluck, 198, Shet. See slag
• †Sluit, 201, C. Du., doubtful if conn. with "sluice" as in the text. "O.F. escluse, a sluce."—Cot. L. Lat. exclusa, a flood-gate"—Sk.
• Slypet, 66, glided. Burns. See Slipa
• Small quantities, equivalent expressions for, 138
• Smatchet, 136, small, mischievous child; perh. small-chit
• Smeddum, 85, 136, acuteness, A.S. smedma, smedeme, fine flour
• Smeekin, 124, 129, smoking in causal sense
• Smiddy, 131, smithy
• Smit, smittel, 33, 68, 210, to infect. Go. bi-smeitan, A.S. be-smitan, to pollute, Ic. smeita, steam from cooking fat, Ger. Schmutz, Du. smet, a spot, smut
• Smoky, 104, a smoked haddock
• Smoogle the gag, 127, 155, boys' game. See gag
• Smore, 71, 208, C. Du. smother
• Snaw, 23, 254, Go. snaiw-s, Ger. Schnee
• Sneck, 135, door-latch, cf. snig, sniggle. See snig, sniggin
• Sneck-drawer, 85, 135, a cunning person, a latch-lifter
• Sned, 14, 23, 148, 182, 195, sneddin, Go. sneithand, snod, neat, trimmed, part. of sneithan, A.S. snithan, Ger. schneiden, Du. snijden,—all, to cut
• Snig, 187, Cu.
• Sniggin, 187, cf. sniggle, sneck, snook
• Snij-doktor, 197, 210, C. Du. snij, to cut. See Sned
• Snod, 14, 128, trim, neat, lit. cut (pret. of sned)
• Snool, 85, one mean, spiritless, Du. snooler, to snub

"They snool me sair,
They hud me doon."

• Snoove, 208, to move smoothly and constantly, Ir. snoimham, to twist
• Snotter, 136, 207, to blubber, snot, snuffle, A.S. and Du. akin to snout
• Sogers, 154, soldiers
• Some, 94, somewhat, cf. Ger. etwas
• Sonks, 201, a grassy seat, a straw cushion

"He'll ride nae mair on stray sonk."

"Jac. Ball."

• Sookies, 123, soukies, clover blooms, from being sucked by children for their nectar
• Soordook, 132, 156, buttermilk
• Soordook sogers, 132, Loth. militia. See daich, daichie
• Soorocks, 123, sorrel, Ger. saurach, E. sour, M.H.G. surach
• Sooth, 18, 33, 86, or. sense, being, existence. Go. bi sunjai, verily, A.S. soth, Sw. sann, Da. sand. My san! var. sal, as exclam.
• Sopje, 198, C. Du., of. "soupe" (Burns)
• Sounded, 35, E.
• Sowens, 156
• Sowl, 19, 26, saiwala, Go. soul, Ger. Seels, A.S. sáwl
• Sowm, 62, Bu. traces, soyme, chain by which plough or cart is drawn. See sime, syme, simmins, cuttysoam
• Spang, spong, 125, 203, var. of span
• Spang-whew, 182. See Spung-hewet, 125
• Spar, 62, 140, to fasten a gate, common Teut. "cog. with spear in or. sense of sticks or pole."—Sk.
• Sparwa, 20, Go. sparrow, Ger. sperling, A.S. spearwa, lit. "the fluttere," Cu. spadger
• Spate, spait, speat, 68, 200, flood, Gael. speid, a river flood
• Speal, spilda, 25, 27, 67, Go. a writing tablet, A.S. speld, a torch, all from base, spald, to split, Ger. spalten, cf. Sc. speldrin, a fish split and dried. Cf. splinter, spale, spail, a lath in wooden houses, a chip. This word has been confounded with the similar "spell," to read.
• Spearmint, 121, a species of mint
• Speel, spele, speil, 126, 196, climb, A.S. spilian, Du. spelen, O.N. spila, Ger. spielen. Cf. "a spell of work," a turn
• Speengie, 121, 156, peony
• Speir, speer, 74, 97, 196, 224, Du. spoor, a trail: as v. A.S. spyrian, Du. speuren, O.N. spyrja

"He speer't what was't they ca'd her."

"Old Song."

• Spelk hen, 181, Gael. spealg (borr.), M.E. spelke, a splinter, N. spjalk, Du. spalk, a splint. Cf. spelicans, a Du. game played with slips of wood, O.Du. spelleken, a small pin
• Speogs, 181, Dumb.
• Spilda, 27, Go. a writing tablet, hence E. spill, a slip of wood, assimilated to "spell" from early use in schools for learning to read. Cf. M.E. speld, a splinter, with Sc. speldrin, dried fish split
• Spill, 27, Go. a fable, myth, A.S. spel; Go. spillon, to relate, E. spell=say or tell the letters. See spilda
• Spilla, 25, 27, Go. a teller, spillon, to tell. See spilda
• Spinks, 121, pinks
• Spolk, 181, Orc.; E. spoke, spike, Ger. Speiche
• Spooks, 220, 223, from Du. spook, O.Ger. spauka, a spectre—of Norse or.
• Spoor, 196, 197, 224, C.Du. See Speer.
• Spoot gun, 123, 134, pop gun, cf. spout
• Spraul, 105, sprawl, a struggle, for sprattle, to spar or toss the limbs about, N.E. sprottle, to struggle
• Spreckled, 167, speckled
• Sprickelt paddicks, 178, Cu.
• Sprits, 66, 200, 201, wet or spritty spots, covered with rushes, vars. spritty, sprat, spreat, Du. spruit, a stream, properly a spring that spurts out, cf. sprout, to germinate, spirt, Ger. spritzen, E. sprout, spurt
• Sprug, spug, spyugs, 125, a sparrow, in dial.
• Spruit, 200, 216, Du. spruiten. See sprits
• Spung hewet, spung taed, 125, 182, vars. spang-hue, spang-whew
• St. Anthony's Pig, 133, yearly on St. Anthony's Day (Jan. 17) domestic animals are brought to be blessed before the porch of St. Eusebius Church in Rome
• Stab-s, 27, Go. a letter, A.S. stafas, letters of alph., Ger. Buchstabe, E. staff, stave (music), Sc. and Gael, stob, a stake, pale, or. something firm, the "graving of Runes" (Kl.)
• Staen, 23, Ab. steen, E. stone, Go. stains
• Staiga, 26, Go. a path or highway, Du. and Ger. Steig, a street, from Go. steigan, to climb. See stey
• Staigs, 69, 105, 137, 147, colts, var. of stag, app. to the male of different animals
• Stake and rise, 127, fence or wall of upright stakes and wattles interwoven. See Rise. Not in Jam.
• Staldan, 24, Go. to own or possess, cf. Du. staatholder, owner of a stead. See steading
• Stamnis, 18, Go. a stammerer. See stoom
• Stang, 208, a long pole, E. sting. Go. us-stiggan, to push out, Ger. Stange, a pole
• Stanner-gaster, 153, Mo.
• Starns, 255, stars, has the adj. suffix n of the Go. stairno=Ger. Stern

"Ye hills, near neebors o' the starns,
That proudly cock your cresting cairns."

Burns.

• Staw, 172, a surfeit, v. to put to a stand, Da. staae, S. wstaa, to stand
• Stead, steading, 24, 25, Go. stads, home-stead, Ger. Stadt. Fi. and Bu. stath-el, staid-el, a small rick
• Steanies, 187, Cu.
• Steek, 207, C. Du. and So. stitch, stick, Du. and Ger. sticken
• Steer, 56, stir=disturb, A.S. Styr-ian, Ic. styrr, Ger. stören, cog. with storm
• Steg, 168, Cu. a gander; cf. stag in sense of male in general
• -ster, -bus, 65, home-stead in Norse place names
• Stêrt, C. Du. 224, A.S. steort, M.E. stert, a tail, Du. staart, Ger. Sterz, lit. the "outspread." Cf. redstart, Start Point. "Stark-naked, a corr. of stert-naked."—Sk.
• Stey, 26, 208, steep, A.S. stigan, to climb. See staiga
• Stibna, 32, Go. voice, Ger. Stimme, A.S. stefn, M.E. steven
• Stile, 208, A.S. stigel, Shet. stiggy. See stigan
• Still an' on, 172, Sc. and Cu.
• Stime, 86, 138, Sc. a speck; var. of skime, A.S. scima, a gleam

⁠"At sic an eldritch time
O' nicht when we see ne'er a stime."

• Stinkin Elshender, 123, ragwort
• Stinkin Willie, 148
• Stink weed, 148, ragwort
• Stirk, 68, 147, a young bullock, Ger. stark, strong, A.S. stearc, styrc do., Du. sterk. Go. ga-staurknan
• Stiur, Go. 21, 250, steer, calf, Du. and Ger. stier, Lat. taurus=strong, full-grown
• Stockannet, strokannet, 124, 140, 172, 180, sheldrake or burrow duck, Shet. links goose. Not in Jam.
• Stoep, 25, 188, 207, C. Du. porch
• Stols, 25, Go. a throne, Ger. Stuhl, Du. stoel, E. stool
• Stook, 128, 129, a clump of corn sheaves, Ger. Stück, E. stock
• Stoom, stoomin, 137, 140, sulking, Ger. stumm, dumb, E. stammer
• Stoor=dust, 97, dust of battle, cf. stir

"Till many a man lay weaponless,
⁠An' was sair wounded in that stour."

• Stot, 196, C. Du. stuit, Go. stantan, to smite, Ger. stossen, to push, cf. stutter, cog. with Lat. tundo, to hammer
• Stot, 147, a young ox. Da. stud, a bull, E. steed, stud, A.S. steda, Ger. Stute; stott, a horse (Chaucer)
• Stoup an' room, 188
• Stovies, 129, var. of stew
• Straucht, 91, adj. and verb
• Strau-ja, 249, Go. bed of straw
• Stravaig, 129, to stroll, app. not only to people

"The moon has rowed her in a cloud,
⁠Stravaiging winds begin,
To shuggle and daud the window brods.
⁠Like loons that wad be in."

Wm. Miller.

• Stravaiging, 129, strolling, Lat. extravagare. "Stravaigin' aboot in the moonlicht wi' a young lassie"
• Strawr-rat, 82, straw hat
• Streiket corpse, 74, stretched in the coffin
• Strong and weak verbs, 35
• Stroup, 201, Ic. strup. Da. strube, the gullet
• Subjunctive, 91, 197
• Sugar-awlie, 186, Lan. sugar-ellie, Fi. a stick of liquorice
• Suícĭdal, 81, E.
• Suljo, 17, Go. sole of the foot, sandal, Lat. solea
• Sully, 28, 81, silly. See silly
• Summonses, 72, summons
• Sumph, 29, 137, a lout, Gael. samph, a clownish fellow, Go. swamms, a sponge, swumfsl. Da. svamp, a sponge, swampig, spongy, A.S. swam, σπόγγος, Lat. fungus, a sponge, Da. sump, a swamp, E. swamp—all from root swim. See swamm
• Sumph, 29, 137, a pool, swamm, swamm-s, a sponge. Go. Both Teut. and class., as sponge, spongy; Da. and Sw. variant sump ident. with Sc. coal-mining term
• Süne, 11, E. soon. Go. sun-s
• Sunno (f.), sunna (m.), 19, 23, Go. sun, Ger. Sonne
• Sunu-s, 18, 247, Go. a son
• Supperfluity, 73
• Sut-is, 11, 28, Go. sweet, Ger. süsz, Du. zoet
• Swei-cruck, 210, sway or swing crook
• Swine-crü, 182, Cu. See crüve
• Syle, 182, a straining sieve, Sw. sîl, a strainer, L.Ger. sielen, to draw off water, E. silt. The l is not radical, cf. Da. and Sc. sie, to filter
• Syme, 181, straw rope for securing thatch. See soum, simmins
• Syne, 13, 20, 56, Sc.; full form, sithen-s (with adv. suff.), sith-then, after that; cf . Ger. seit-dem, A.S. sith, after, is Go. seith-us, late; syne, sin, an early contraction of sithens
• Sype, 172, to ooze, E. sap, A.S. saep, Ger. saft. See seip, sipe

"An' gart his swalled e'en sype
⁠Sant tears that day."

Skinner.

• Syper, 211. See sype
• Syth hyuck, 146, scythe hook
• Swauping, 130, swapping, bartering, Ger. schwappen, to strike, in sense of striking a bargain
• Sweer, 29, 69, 97, 197, 209, unwilling, C. Du. zwaar, A.S. swaer, O.N. svárr, Ger. schwer. Go. swers, heavy, honoured, sweran, to honour, var. of sweer, sweir, swere, swear=sweert, lazy in Jam., rather reluctant, as—

"He was gey sweert tae pairt wi's siller."

(J. B. F.)

• Sweer-kitty, 160, wrestling-game
• Sweer-tree, ditto, 158, 160. See sweer
• Swes, 26, Go. one's own property, cog. with Lat. suus
• Swei, sway, swing, 210
• Swein, 24, Go. swine; or. su-ina, young of the sow
• Swingle-tree, 130, part of plough graith
• Swistar, 18, Go. sister, Ger. Schwester
• Swith, swinth-s, 58, Go. strong, A.S. strong, very much:—

"In the thrang o' stories tellin',
Shakin' hands an' jokin' queer.
Swith, a chap comes on the hallan:
'Mungo, is our Watty here?'"

Alex. Wilson.

• Swounded, 35, Shak. swooned

 

T

• T slurred bet. vowels, 111; -t(neut.), 44, 45
• T' as def. art. 168—"t' words 'at"—Cu.
• Taal, 222, C. Du., cog. with tell
• Taave, tyaave, 100, 101, Ab. See taw, tew
• Tables, at the Sacrament, 74
• Tackin in, 92, term in stocking-knitting
• Taed, taid, 129, a toad, A.S. and M.E. tade. See spung-taed
• Taepit, taintless, taebetless, tapetless, 87, 138, 139, 151, Fi. manual dexterity. Withless, syn. of thowless. Prob. taipit for to-put
• Tag, 21, 155, var. of taws or ferule, a latchet. Go. tagl=tail, A.S. taegel
• Tagrida, 36, Go. wept, as if teared
• Tahjan, 12, Go. to tear. Go. tiuhan, to tow, tug, A.S. teóhan, teón, to. pull, Ger. Ziehen, Du. touwen, to curry leather, theofa, O.N. to waulk or shrink cloth, E. taw, tew, to curry
• Taihswa, 17, Go. right-handed, Lat. dexter; cf. carrie, left hand, carrie-mittit, Lan.
• Taikns, 53, Go. a miracle, token, cog. Zeichen, so used in Luther's Bible
• Tain-jo, 5, Go. woven basket, hence tine, tooth of a harrow, M.E. "tyndis of harrowis," stag's antlers, cog. tooth
• †Tains, 5, 26, Go. thorn-branch. See tain-jo, toon
• Tait, tate, 68, 138, tiny bit, tit, teat, tot, Sw. tott, handful of lint or wool
• Tak on, 137, buy on credit
• Talitha, 2, Aram. damsel=mawilo (Wulf.)
• T'allen, 176, Cu. for the hallan, which see
• Tami-da, 36, Go. pret. of tamjan, to tame
• Tam-jan, 36, Go. to tame
• Tammy-reekie, 129, boys' trick as pastime
• Tand, N. 203
• Tangs, 207, C. Du. tongs
• Tante, 207, C. Du.
• Taps, tops, 122, fir cones; 207, of beer
• Tarrow, 69, to hesitate, refuse; tarrowin', grumbling, tarre, to incite
• Taucht, 49, pret. of teach
• Taujan, Go. to do, bring out
• †Taupie, tawpie, 85, 136, 170, a foolish woman, Da. taabe, a fool, Sw. tapig, simple, foolish—prob. not Fr. taupe
• Taurds, 155, taws, ferule. W. tar-o, tar-aw, to strike. "At the Elgin Academy we called it the tag."—Prof. Cooper. See tarrow
• Taw, 12, E. to tan leather, Go. tiuhan, to be ready, with many deriv.
• Taws, ferula, 101, 155, Gael, tas, a whip, scourge; var. of tags, A.S. tawian, to tan, beat. See taw, tyaave
• Tawtiet (Burns), 183, uncombed, towsy, perh. conn. with tatter, N. totra, taltra, pl. tultrer, rags. The aw is accounted for by the elided l. For the term. -iet, see nakkit
• Tchuch, 12, 13, 168, Sc. tough, perh. Go. tahjan, to tear, guttural in A.S. tóh, Ger. zähe. See tíuhan
• Tchuch Jeans, 186, tough geans, a Glasgow sweet
• Teav, tew, 180, Cu., fidget, exert one's self. See taave, taw
• Têk, tai, tôk, 35, Go. take and took
• Tell, 92, to bid or order
• Tell, 88, to one's credit. "It's no tellin' ye," not to your credit
• Tempery cook, 84, temporary
• Teuchat, tchuchat, 125, the lapwing
• Teuk, took, 180, Niths.
• Teva-kudda, 100, Orc. tuva-keuthie—Jam. See tyaave and cod
• Tew, 101, 180, Cu. See taw, tyaave
• Tewsum, Cu. 180
• Th, sound, 14
• Thae, 91
• Thae, thirr, 168
• Thahai, thahan, 31, Go.; cog. taceo, to be silent
• Thai, 32, 39, 45
• Thair, thaim, 45
• Thames (set on fire), 173, temse, tems, A.S. temes, a sieve, Du. tems, a strainer: a corn sieve, which, if worked too quickly, might fire the wooden hoop. "Tammy not given in Jam, E. temse, tems, a sieve, a scarce, bolter" (J. B. F.)
• That, 45, 63, 90, 157
• That, for so, 90
• That, as def. art, 39, 157, 171, that baths, that cleek, that poker, Ab.
• Thaurban, 31, Go. to be in want, Ger. bedürfen, to have cause, Du. durven, A.S. thurfan
• Thaurnus, 23, Go. thorns
• The, 91, Go. thar, E. there; from an old Teut. demonst. tha, Ger. da, dort
• The, particularising, 94
• The, 39, the day
• The, 30, v. to prosper, M.E. See theihan
• The tane and the tither, 171
• Theats, 130, ropes or traces. Ic. "thatt-r, cord, small rope."—Jam.
• Thee, 30, thigh
• Theel, theevil, 129, 172, 182, Fi. porridge-stick, E. thill, cart-shaft, A.S. thille, a thin slip of wood, Ic. thilja, a plank, Ger. Diele, E. deal
• Theihan, 30, Go. to thrive, O.E. ge-théon, to thee, Ger. ge-deihen, to prosper; root sense, to grow, flourish. "So mote I thee!" common M.E. asseveration
• Thewis, thius, 24, Go. a servant, A.S. théow, servant, slave, Ger. dienen, to serve
• Thick, 173, Cu.
• Thig, 145, to ask, beg, Ic. thygg-ia, to receive as a gift, accept hospitality for a night. Da. tigger, a beggar
• Think shame to, 92
• Thirr, 90
• Thissilaga, 156, colt's-foot
• Thiudans, 22, Go.; Ger. Deutsch, the "folk," national name
• Thiud-isk, 7, "theodisca lingua in Lat. texts, 788—eccles., not polit., term," O.Sc. thede, a nation
• Thole, 33, 69, 70, 97, 139, endure. Go. thulan, to suffer, Ger. dulden; cog. Lat. tolerare, all Teut. in Sc. sense, to put up with
• Thone, 38, 45
• Thoo, thou, 172, familiar
• Thoo gan, 172, Cu.
• Thowless, thewless, thieveless, 87, feeble, applied in Sc. to bodily qualities, in O.E. to mental, theauwe, virtues, A.S. theawas, manners, E. thews; "sense of bulk, strength, comes straight from the root, tu, to be strong."—Sk.
• Thraep, hraep, 13, 171, to argue, assert with pertinacity. Go. hropjan, to cry out, hropei, clamour, Sc. roup
• Thraif, thraves, threave, 129, 171, twenty-four sheaves of corn, Ic. threfi. Da. trave, a score of sheaves, threve, Cu. a number of sheaves
• Thrang, 90, busy, A.S. thringen, to press, Ger. dringen. Go. threihan, Ger. drängen, E. throng
• Thraw, 67, to twist, A.S. thrâwan, var. of throw
• "Thraw-cruck" 62, twist-crook
• Thriutan, 27, Go. to threaten
• Throo-gawn, 137, through-going, pushful
• Throo-pit, 140
• Through his sleep, 89
• Thrummy cap, 134, cap of thrums, Ic. thröm-r, margin, selvage
• Thruts-fill, 27, Go. leprosy. See fill
• Thur ans, 167, Cu.; Sc. thirr yins or ains
• Thut-haum, 28, Go. a trumpet, Du. toet-horen, Ic. thjota, to blow a horn
• Ticky-molie, 129, 140. The trick lay in fastening a long thread to the astragal of the window-pane. From this fixed end hang a short length with a pin or tack attached. A slight regular pull on the thread from a safe distance produced an eerie sound in the still room. If surprised, it was easy for the boy to "cut the painter"
• Tig, 127, a tap, slight stroke; boys' game; var. of tick, tack
• Timmer, 23, 26, 249, syn. of tree, wooden; timrjan. Go. to build, Ger. Zimmer
• Tinder, 21, Eng.; Go. tundja, a bush; prob. not related. A.S. tyndre, tendan, to kindle. Da. tönder
• Tine, 26, Go. tains, tain-jo, which see. Prong in a harrow, stag's antler; O.E. tinde, Ic. tind-r, Sw. tinne, a prickle, Ger. Zinne, a pinnacle, ult. akin to tooth
• Tinkler, 92, 153, 168, 183, tinker
• Tipt, 67, tepid
• Tirr, 231, prob. a var. of tear; "most common usage not given—to remove subsoil above a bed of rock in a quarry" (J. B. F.)
• Titty, 173, sister
• Tiuhan, 12, Go. to tow, tug. See tew, taw, tyaave
• To, prep. 89, "no fault to him"
• †Toff, 192, doubtful if var. of topf
• Toh, 13, A.S. tough, Sc. tyuch, tchuch. Go. tah-jan, to rend; or. to bite. See tiuhan, tyuch
• Token, 53, A.S. tácn, Du. tecken, Go. taikns, a miracle (in Leather's "Bible" its cog. zeichen is used)
• Took their bare feet, 88
• Toom, tume, 204, empty
• Toom, 202, C. Du. a bridle rein, Ic. taum-r, Ger. Zaum, from sense of reducing to order, as in E. team—base tau, in taw, to curry leather. Go. tau-jan, to cause, make
• Toon, 5, 41, 249, town, -ton. Go. tun, A.S. tún, Du. tuin, hedge, O.N. tún, homestead, Ger. Zaun, a hedge. Klüge finds it in Lugdûnum, Roman London
• Toot, 28, E. to sound a horn, Du. tuiten, Ger. tuten
• Tooth, 18, A.S. tôth=tanth, N. tand, Go. tunthus, tooth
• Toper, 193, Cu. anything excellent in its kind
• Tothed, 200, ted, to spread new-mown grass, tedded; Ic. tethja, to spread tath or manure, töthu-verk, making hay. See koil-tett
• Tove, 100, toss, Shet. See tyaave
• Tow, 68, 161, 208, and C. Du. rope,

"An' or I wad anither jade
⁠I'll wallop in a tow."

⁠A.S. tow, Ic. to, a tuft of wool, tog a rope

"There was an auld wife had a wee pickle tow.
⁠An' she wad gae try the spinnin' o't,
She lootet her doon an' her rock took a low
⁠An' that was a bad beginnin' o't."

Alex. Ross. (J. B. F.)

• Trake, 203, to wander idly, C. Du. trek
• Tramp-colies, 146, Mo. hay stacks
• Trance, 176, perh. Lat. trans, across
• Trances, 146, hey soos. Mo.
• Transpire, 94
• Trap, 135, 207, Ger. Treppe, a ladder, Du. trap
• Traps, 92, for the unwary Englishman
• Treacle peerie, 132, home-made small beer. See peerie
• Treak, 203, Cu.
• Tree, 20, 26, Go. triu, triu-weins, wooden
• Treesh, 148, Mo. call to a cow
• Trek, 211, 203, C. Du.
• Treviss, 131, partitions in a stable forming the stall, Lat. trabs, a beam
• Trig, trigger, 211
• Trogger, 111, Ir. vagrants who gather old clothes
• Troke, troking, 135, 152, 203, to barter
• Tromp, 223, C. Du. trump, Fi. a Jew's harp, trumpet
• Trooie, 148, Mo.
• Trowtis, 62, trouts, Barb.
• Tuig, 208, C. Du. tow, a rope. See tow
• Tull me, 168, Cu.; cf. Sc. till, intill for to, into
• Tummel-car, 181, Cu. tumlin-wheels, primitive solid wooden wheels
• Tunthus, 18, Go. tooth, Lat. dens, dentis
• Tutor, 72, Sc. law term
• Twal oor, 197, twaalf uur, C. Du.
• Twal oors, 129, mid-day meal, twelve hours
• Twa-neukit, 88, two-cornered
• Twicet, 90, twice
• Tyaave, 100, difficulty: "my job's an affle tyaave" (Ab.), buckie-tyanve, a good-humoured wrestle (Bff.)
• Tyeuve, 101, Bu., laboured hard. See taw, tew

 

U

• U, sounds, thin, and name, 81
• Ubils, 29, Go. evil
• Ubizwa, 25, Go. a porch, A.S. efese, a clipt hedge of thatch, from Go. prep. uf, under, Ger. oben; lit. cover, shelter
• Udal, Udaller, 10, Orc. land tenure. See Othal
• Ug, 154
• Ug-sam, 30, Bord.
• Ug-some, 98. See ugly, ogre
• -uh, 45, Go. affix, Lat. que
• Ulbandus, 21, Go. camel. See elephant
• Umhm! 85
• "Um zu," 91, Ger. for to
• Unco, 171, Cu. in or. sense, unknown, strange, and not an intensive as in Sc.
• Undaurni-mats, 24, Go. morning meal, E. undern, still in prov. dial.; 9 A.M. in Paisley Burgh Recs.
• Und hina dag, 45, Go. unto this day
• Und hita nu, 45, Go. hitherto
• Undomous, 153, Mo. un-demus, incalculable; un and deman to judge.—Jam. Go. ga-domjan, doom, judge. Syn. byous
• Unfewsom, 182, Cu.; cf. Ger. fügsam, pliant
• Unhouseled, 32, Shak., A.S. husel, the Eucharist, Go. hunsl, a sacrifice; or. sense, to kill
• Unhultha, 28, Go. from hulths, gracious, hilthan, to favour; O.E. holde, faithful. Kl. connects with Ger. hold, O.N. hollr, A.S. hold, gracious
• Unless, 90, without
• Un-selja, 28, Go. un-silly, i.e., wicked. See silly
• Un-weis, 13, Go. unlearned. See weiss
• Upsij, 218, C. Du. See op-sit
• Up a heet, 169, North.
• Uppalt, 153, cessation, uphald, uphaud
• Upsettin', 136, conceited brat
• Upsie-daesiss, 185, nursery prattle—up—down
• Up-tack, 92, quick apprehension
• Us-hlaupands, 33, Go.; Sc. loupin up, leap, A.S. hleápan, Du. loopen, Ger. laufen, all in sense to run
• Us-litha, 27, Go. paralytic. See lith
• Us-stiur-iba, 56, from stiur-jan, to establish, confirm, E. steer, to guide, and steer, an ox, in prim. sense of "what stands firm," as in Ic. staurr, a post
• Uz-anan, 31, Go. to give up the ghost. See an-an, to breathe
• Uz-eto, 24, Go. manger, out-eater

 

V

• Val, 210, C. Du. val deure, a trapdoor, E. fall. See moos-fa'
• Vee, 218, C. Du. See fe
• Veldt, 199, C. Du.; O.N. fold, A.S. fëld, Du. veld, E. field, fell, fieldfare
• Vel schoen, 208, C. Du. shoes of skin. See fill
• Verb present with s, 90 (Scots)
• Victual, 94, rations
• Village commune, 64
• Vlei, 125, C. Du., cog. flay, M.E. flean, Ic. flá, to slice off, Sw. flaga, a flake. App. to slicing off turf in Sc. flauch, and flauchter, which see
• Volksraad, 198, C. Du.; E. folk and Go. redan, to counsel, provide, A.S. raedan, Ger. Rat, raten, E. read, Sc. rede

"An' may he better reck the rede
Than ever did the adviser."

Burns.

• Vrij, vrijers, 205, C. Du. to woo, wooers, Ind.-Ger. root pri, to love, cog. with friend. Or. sense, free choice, hence Du. vrij. Go. freis (frija), Ger. frei. See free
• Vuur, 207, C. Du. fire

 

W

• Waddjan, 25, comp. with "baurgs," Go. town-wall, A.S. wattel, a hurdle, Sc. wattles, wallet; lit. "a thing woven together"
• Waa'er, 83, Lan. water
• Wad-g-er, 212, Fi. See wadi
• Wadi, 26, Go. a pledge, E. wed. Go. waddja-bokos, a bond
• Wadmel, 100, Orc.; E. wad, a bundle of stuff, Ic. vadmal, a plain woollen stuff, Ger. Watte, a fishing-net, like Ic. vathr, stuff wound together. Cf. E. weeds, dress. See mail
• Wadn't cud dea't, 169, Cu. idiom
• Wad-set, 26, 155, 212, a mortgage, wad, a pledge; cf. Lat. vas, vadis. See wadi
• Waër, 62, Barb, sadder; comp. cf. wae, woe
• Waffie, 137, a vagabond, waff, strayed

"To wear up three waff ewis strayed on the bog."—"Gentle Shepherd."

• Waggari, 17, Go. a pillow, A.S. waggare, wange, cheek, jaw, E. wang-tooth, O.E. and Ger. Wange
• Waian, 255, Go. root of E. weather
• Wair, 248, Go. world, A.S. wergeld, Ger. Welt, Lat. vir
• Wairdless, 87, spendthrift, without ward, guard or prudence
• Wairilo, 17, Go. the lip, A.S. weler
• Wairthan, 48, Go. to become, arch. E. worth, Ger. werden
• Wairthus or wairdus, 24, Go. a host, Ger. Wirth
• Wale, waled, 33, 183, 192, 219, Go. waljan, to choose, Ic. velja, Ger. wählen, cog. with will
• Wallop, 53, 156, Mo. the lapwing, wallock and to wallach, to use many circumlocutions
• Wallowit, 49, withered, A.S. wealwian, to roll, wallow; cf. Lat. volvo, to roll
• Walshoch, 153, weak and watery; cf. walsh, welsche, insipid; Jam. Teut. gælsch; A.S. gaelsa, wantonness, pride. See galsh
• Wamme, 29, Go. spot, O.E. wem, A.S. wem, a scar, a blemish
• Wandjan, 34, Go. to wend, turn, went
• Wange, 18, jaw, cheek, A.S. wange, Ger. and O.E. the cheek. The molars are sometimes called wang-teeth. See wangere, A.S. pillow, bolster
• Wanst, 90, once
• Wap, 172, 174, a disturbance, "to kick up a wap," to throw quickly, "wappit war wyde," thrown quite open, M.E. wappen, to beat, strike—"Allit. Poems," Amours
• Wardle, 16, Ab. world
• Warem, 209, C. Du. warm
• Warsle, 97, to sidle along, struggle, wrestle
• Wasti, 19, 254, Go. dress, Lat. vestis, ga-wasiths, was clad
• Watch weds, 187, Cu. for game of "Scots and English," weds, pledges, as in wad-set, which see
• Water brash, 139, a symptom of indigestion
• Water droger, 133. Cf. droch, a dwarf
• Wato, 253, Go. water
• "Wattled cotes," 15, 67, Milton. See withe, withy, waddja
• Wauken, wakand, 53, pres. part. of wauk, to be on the wake or watch

"The waukin'" (watching) "o' the fauld."

All. Ramsay.

• Waukit, 65, wauk, to full cloth, render callous, as the palm by hard work—

"Till his waukit hoofs were in a blister."

"Jac. Ball."

• Waur, wairs, 29, 97, Go.; E. worse
• Waurms, 20, Go. worm
• Waurtja, 26, 48, Go.; E. ort, wort, root, Ger. Wurz
• Waxin kernels, 182, Cu. wax kernels, Fi. an indurated gland, often in the neck
• Wean, 66, Lan. child; obsc. or.
• Wearin, a, 173, Cu. a decline, Sc.
• Wearing-down process, 194
• Weary alone, to, 92
• Wecht, 124, close sieve used in winnowing corn
• Wed, 187, Cu. See wadi
• Wedder, 21, a sheep, wether. Go withrus, a lamb; or. sense, a "yearling"
• Weebie, 123, 148, the ragwort, Fi. Not in Jam.
• Weed, 179, E. dress (Shak.)
• Weed-clips, 173, Cu.
• Weed, 139, an illness
• Weel-eddicate, 88, well educated
• Weel-hained, 130, well-preserved, hain, have to spare. See hained
• Ween, 30, expect, fancy. Go. wenjan, to expect
• Weet, 209, C. Du. pron. wait, as on the Borders; wat, wot
• Wee wifikie, 106, little wifie
• Weigan, 23, Go. to fight, A.S. wig, a warrior
• Weihs, weihsta, 26, 249, Go. street corner, Lat. vicus, a wick, -wich
• Weina, 26, Go. wine. Cog. Lat. vinum, from which it is borrowed
• Weina-basi, 15, Go. the grape, lit. wine-berry
• Weird, 69, werd, weerd, A.S. wyrd, fate, Go. wairthan, and Ger. werden, to come to pass; werdie, 69, feeblest bird in a nest, "Ilka nest has its werdie." Prob. conn. with weird, wyrd, as the luckless, unfortunate. (J. B. F.)
• Weis (weece), 11, Go. we
• Weiss, 83, wyce
• Weitan, 51, Go. to see, to wit
• Well-caumed, 135, cam-stone, white clay hardened. "Teut. kalmeysteen."—Jam.
• Wer, 16, A.S. a man, as in wergild, weor-old, Lat. vir. See wair
• Wer-old, 16, O.E. world, A.S. weor-old—comp. of Ic. verr. Go. wair. Lat. vir. a man, and old, M.E. elde, old age, Go. aids, an age—all in sense "an age of man"
• Wersh, 86, 153. See walshoch
• Weyt, 182, Cu. wecht, Fi.
• Wh (init.)=W, 82
• Wha, whaw, 14, 40, who, interr.
• Whan, hwan, 32, Go. when
• Whaup, 119, greater curlew—onomatop.
• Wheen, quheyne, 69, 86, 94, 138; cf. whang, a large piece, Lat. cuneus, a wedge: quhan in place names, as Quoth-quhan
• Wheenge, 30, 136, E. whine, A.S. wanian. Kl. thinks the cognate Ger. weinen probably from Go. and Ger. wai, woe (as interj.) and Go. wainags, unhappy, tearful, and compares with Go. kwainon, to weep

"A' ye whingin Whig carles."

"Old Song."

• Wheesh, 13, hush, Go. wis
• Wheetie, 148, call to ducks
• Whicks, quickens, 182, Cu.
• Whid, whidding, 14, rapid movement

"He heard the bows that bauldly ring,
An' arrows whidderin hym near by."

"Old Ball."

• Whiles, for sometimes, 167
• Whi-lk, 14, 40, which
• Whill, 90, until
• Whilst, whiles, whilie, 35, 90
• Whins, winds, 83, E.
• Whip t' cat, 188, Cu.
• Whisps, 83, E. wisps
• †White, whet, 14, 30, E. to sharpen, A.S. hwettan, Ic. hwettja, to sharpen, incite, Go. hwass, sharp
• Whittret, 124, prob. Ic. hvat-r, quick, bold; pet name for a youngster
• Whol, 174, pool in a river, Bord.; Ger. Welle, a billow
• Whopan, 48, Go. to boast, whoop
• Who's owt t' dog, 169, Cu. idiom
• Whummle-bore, 139, 140, 151, cleft palate; onomatop. as affecting speech
• Wicht, waihts, 12, Go. a thing, E. wight, whit, Ger. Wicht
• Wicks=corners, "wickin a bore," 98, wic, an open bay, Ic. vik, creek
• Widdy, 25, 67, 252, withe, Sc. wattles, Da. vidie, halter or rope of willow or hazel twigs, hence the gallows. See Go. waddja.

"Ye cheat the widdie, rogue."

• Widow woman, 18, 35, 247, widuwo, Go.; cf. Lat. vidua
• Wife, 209, C. Du. wifie
• Wife-day, cum-mether, Cu. 181. See Cummer's Feast
• Wig, 181, North. tea-cake, Du. wegge, a kind of cake, Ger. Weck, wheaten bread, or. sense in O.N. vegge, a wedge. See wheen
• Wigs, 23, Go. wayside
• Wig-leader, 82, E. whig
• Wiht, 12, olden form of whit
• Wiljan, 255, Go., cf. will, well
• Willie-miln, 66, Fi. door-catch
• Willie-waucht, 85, a hearty draught of liquor. Not in Jam.
• Wiltit, 49, walwjan, Go. to roll, E. welter, waltz, wallow, A.S. wealwian, wyltan, to roll round
• Wime, Wambe, 18, 58, belly, Go. wamba, Ger. Wamme, E. womb

"Our wames e'en to our riggin bane
Like skate fish clappin."

"Puddin' Leezie."

• "Wince, loot a" (Burns), 173, an oath, perh. corr. of "wounds." See "'Ods wuns."
• Windy, 63, 92, boastful
• Wining, 145, app. for winding
• Winister, 146, instr. for winding straw ropes. Not in Jam.
• Winthi-skauro, 23, Go. wind or winnowing fan. Du. schuren, a barn, as in the Taal (with Go. hard pronunc.), Groote Schoor, the Cape Town house of Cecil Rhodes, now Government House for S.-Af. Union. See Skura windis
• Wintrus, 23, Go. winter
• Wipe, 172, a blow, a retort, the act of rubbing to clean, a blow, stroke, A.S. wipian, cf. whip, wisp
• Wippin, 83, E. for a whippin
• Wirset, 233, worsted, from name of a village near Norwich
• Wirth, 24, Ger.; Go. wairdus, house-father
• Wis, 32, Go. whish
• Wisan, 51, 56, Go. to be, was
• Wit-an, 27, 51, 255, Go. wit, wot, Sc. wat, Ger. wissen
• Wite, -id-weit-jan, 30, 206, Go. to reproach, A.S. aet-witan, ed-witan, from Go. weit-jan, to give one the wite (Sc.) or blame, and witan, to know, Du. wijten, to blame. Twit from M.E. at-witen. Wite keeps the or. long vowel

"Nae man can wyte me wi' theft."

"Rob Roy."

• Withon, 14, Go. to shake, cf. Ger. Wedel, tail or tip of a fan; akin to Go. waian, to blow, wave, wind
• Without, 90, for unless
• Withra, 48, 216, Go. against, withstand, A.S. withre, M.E. wither, resistance, E. withers
• Witoda-fasteis, 27, Go. scribe, lawyer, witoth, the law, and fastan, to fast
• Witoda-laisareis, 27, Go. teacher of the law. Go. witoth, a law, from witan, to know, and laisjan, to teach
• Witters, 154, withers. Not in Jam.
• Wlappit, 53, wrapt, folded, lapwing, lapper, lappel, lappet, from Go. walwjan, to roll
• Wleiz-s, 18, Go. countenance, anda-wleizns, and, against, and wlitan, to look, Ger. Antlitz, M.E. anleth, A.S. white, brightness, beauty. Go. wlisjan, to smite in the face
• Wlispyt, 61, Barb. lisped
• †Wludja, 17, Go. the countenance, is mistake in text for ludja, a var. of wlits. See wleiz-s
• Wochen-bett, 205, C. Du. See kraam
• Wods, 32, Go. wôds, mad, Shak. wood, A.S. wód, Du. woede, Ger. Wuth. Or. sense of divine frenzy is in Woden, Odin, and Lat. vates, a seer
• Wôk, 11, Go. pret. of wakan, to wake, watch, us-wakjan, to wake from sleep, Ger. wachen
• Won't can come, 169, Cu. idiom
• Wopjan, whoop, 30, Go. weep, Eng. whoop. Or. sense of weep was an outcry, lament
• Words and phrases, 197
• Words for relationship, 194
• Wort, 26, 48, E. root. See waurtja
• Worth, 48, obs. E.; Go. wairthan, A.S. weorthan, Du. worden, Ger. werden, to become
• Wrack, 145, weeds piled up for burning, sea-weed, E. var. of wreck, Da. vrag, wreck, Ic. raqa, to throw away, raaga, drift weed
• Wrig, 133, 140, youngest of a litter or brood, Ic. raqa, to throw away as refuse. See wrack
• Writer, 72, chamber lawyer
• Wroh-jan, 30, Go. to accuse, from wrohs, an accusation, Ger. rügen, to censure, Ic. †vraegja, A.S. wregan, E. be-wray
• Wud, 32 mad, furious
• Wuldor, 52, A.S. glory, praise. Go. wulthus
• Wulfs, 251, Go.; E. wolf
• Wup, 33, to bind round with cord, E. whip, Go. weipan, to wreathe, wip-jo, a crown. Root, vi. to bind
• Wurr, wuz, wiz-na, 51, 73, 74, 91, 168, for were
• Wurr'm, 80, worm
• Wyce, wise, 97, 106. See weiss
• Wyliecoat, 182, Cu.
• Wyrd, 23, fate. See weird

 

Y

• Yaar, 148. In Jam. as "Yaur (red), species of fucus used by children for painting their faces." Attrib. to Newhaven fishermen
• Yammer, 151, 221, C. Du. jaumer, or. yell, var. whimper

"While the bairns wi' murnin' yammer
Roun' their sabbin mither flew."

Alex. Wilson.

• Yclept, 84, O.E. p. part, of obs. verb clypian, to call
• Yea, 48, 56, A.S. geo, E. yea. Go. ja, jai, jah
• Yeld, 68, 132, a cow with milk dried up, Ic. gelde, giving no milk, Sw. gall, barren, Ger. gelf, said of a cow. Klüge gives the older Ger. form, gi-alt, as if from alt. See geld
• Yellow-yite, 124, 156, yellow-yorlin, yellow-hammer, yellow yoldrin. "No cross reference to yeldrin, and here, in small type, yellow-yite, the commonest name." (J. B. F.)
• Yorlin or Yarlin, 156. Prof. Cooper often heard these rhymes—

"Yallow, yallow, yarlin,
Drink a drap o deil's blood
Ilka May mornin'."

• ⁠He adds the note that boys hated this bird, and used to stone it. This was a very widely diffused bit of folk-lore, a survival of the early legend that Judas Iscariot was transformed into the bird, perhaps due to the yellow gaberdine of the Mediæval Jew
• Yett, 62, var. of gate
• Yird, yirdit, 49, buried—Erde, var. of earth
• Yirp, 248, Bu. act of fretting, yirpin, fretful
• Yiss, 78, yes. Highland speaker
• Yode, 34, O.E. went
• "Yokin, a," 34, "he yokit on me." Jam. to engage in a quarrel; var. of yoke, to join, Go. waurda jinka, wordy strife
• Yon, 51, Go. jains, that, jaind, jaindre, yonder, Ger. jener
• Yooer, 177, 178, udder, in form like Du. uijer, North, yure, Ger. euter, like udder, follows the Teut. type udra
• Young, juggs. Go., 53, Ger. jung
• Yowe, 21, ewe, Lat. ovis. Go. awi-s, awi-str, awi-thi
• Yuckie, 153, itchy, also prov. E.; Du. jeuken, Ger. jucken, to itch

 

Z

• Zuipen, 210, Du. See seap, sijp
• Zwaar, 209, C. Du.; Sc. sweer, in slightly different sense, comp. zwaarder

 

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¤¤¤Dr. Wm. Craigie, co-editor of "New English Dictionary," in a note to me, says, with reference to p. 5 of the text, where tun is compared with Go. tains and tain-jo, "Connexion between tún and tains is very doubtful, as the vowels do not belong to the same series." Again, with regard to the parallel, p. 14, between whet and white (a stick), "The former represents O.E. hwettan and the latter O.E. thwitan. The older form of whittle is thwitel, and Sc. whang=thong, early thwang."

It is but fair to say that Dr. Craigie has seen only the first sheet or two of the text.

SCOTO–FRENCH SECTION

The head word is always Scots; the French follows. Meanings will be found in the text. A few words have been introduced here though they have not been included in the text, but these are distinguished by the absence of any reference.

The Glossary is intended to be taken as a whole, so that a word not found in the one section may be looked for in the other.

A

• Abillzeaments, 236, habillement
• Accrese, accresce, accress, 239, accroissement
• Aiver, 21, 71, horse, goat, &c., O.F. aveir, avoir, property, "having," E. aver-age.—N.E.T).
• Allya, 228, 235, allié
• Ashet, 239, assiette
• Aumous, 242, almesse, alms
• Awal, 65, 189, awald, of a sheep lying helpless on its back, avaler, F. to gulp down, descend, Lat. ad vallem, O.F. avaler, to descend, fall (Spenser)
• Awmrie, 235, 242, aumônerie; aumry, chest, O.F. aumoiren, Lat. armarium, depôt of arms

B

• Babies, 231, babiole, It. babbeo, bauble, babble, "a pet form of babe from common root"
• Babuttis, 230, bibs, Fr. bavette
• Backet, bucket, 66, 68, 155, 209, in saut-backet, dim. of back, Du. bak, trough, tub, F. bac, ferry-boat, dim. baquet
• Bain, 66, 156, 209, Sc. a bucket, F. bain, It. bagno, Lat. balneum, bath, obsc. E. N.E.D. tub, Jam. boin, boyen, bine, washing tub
• Bajan, bejant, 75, 240, first-year student, bajan, F. bec-jaune, yellow beak, Ger. Gelb-Schnabel
• Banns, 74, same as ban, a proclamation, F. ban, Med. Lat. bannum
• Barley, 240, parley, parler
• Bases, 236, base, "app. an E. application of base, 'bottom' to a short skirt from waist to knee."—N.E.D.
• Bass, a door-mat, Sc.–F. base, M.E. has, baas, basse
• Bavard, 230, F. baveur
• †Bawbee, 240, has billon. This origin questioned in N.E.D.
• Bawsent, bawson, 223, O.F. bauzan, It. balzano, Lat. balteus=striped with white
• Beaver, 240, bevoir
• Begyte, 150, Sc. foolish, "nasty begoyt creature," Bff. Fr. bigaut, ass or fool.—Jam.
• †Bicker, 237, 238, bitch. M. Amours says, "I do not think F. becquée has anything to do with bitch or bicker." He notes, also, that "les trois Rois" refers to Twelfth Night or Epiphany (Jan. 6)
• Bilgets, 238, O.F. billete, billets.
• Boge, 230, bougie.
• Boise, 233, O.F. busse, buss, a fishing-boat, Du. buis
• Bonet, 233, O.F. bonet
• Bonnie, 97, bonne, fair
• Bools, 127, 238, Sc; F. boule, Lat. bulla, a bubble, a round thing.—N.E.D.
• Boss, of a shield, 207; cf. emboss, F. bosse
• Bowie, 68, a milk-bowl, Sc. milk dish, usually referred to F. buie, but possibly dim. of bowl
• Brace, 240, bras, O.F. brace, bras, width of the two arms
• Brash, in water-brash, 139, F. brèche, broken stuff.—Imp. D.
• Brisket, 66, 201, Sc. chest, meaning and apparent form identical with Fr. brechet
• Bruit, 234, brute, bruit
• Bruttit, 236
• Buist, 231, 235, 237, O.F. bostia, boîte
• Bowet, 240
• Butry, 240, biitor, a dull fellow
• Buye, 230, buie

C

• Cadie, 242, cadet, Lat. capitatus
• Caisse, 233, O.F. casse, F. châsse, Lat. capsa
• Callandis, 118, 229, callants, Du. kalant, a customer, F. chaland, prob. borr. from Du.
• Calsey, 169, 237, 242, causey, chaussée, late Lat. calceata, stamped with the heel
• Caprus, 233, copperas, couperose, Diez's cupri rosa, more prob. cuprosa, short for aqua c.=copper water, Ger. Kupfer-Wasser, and "assoc. with rose merely an etym. fancy."–N.E.D.
• Capitane, 236, O.F. capitaine
• Castocks=chou-stocks, 68, 242, chou
• Certes, certie, 240, certes. "In 'my certies, my certie,' the word may be identical with certes, M.E. and O.F., but history of the phrase not clear."—N.E.D.
• Chaffing, 231, chauffer
• Chamer, chaumer, 229, chambre.
• Chandlers, 231, 232, O.F. chandelier, chandelle
• Chapelet, 233, Chapeau
• Chesbol, 236, the poppy, caisse. "In Prompt. Parv. cheese-bowl, but confounded with chibol, F. ciboule, Lat. cæpulla, onion bed, cæpa, onion."—N.E.D.
• †Cheetie-pussie, 68, 135, 240, chat. Prob. not from chat, but a mere call
• Chicknawd, 234, chiquenaude
• Chirurgeon, 238, O.F. cirurgien. The pron. ch=k is modern
• Choffer, 235
• Chyres, 232, O.F. cha-iè-re, chaire in eccles. sense, Lat. cathedra
• Cissills, 232, O.F. cisel, F. ciseau, Lat. cædo, to cut
• Close, 240, clos
• Cog, 68, bucket; prob. same as cog, or cock-boat, O.F. cogue, Ic. kug-gr, a ship.—N.E.D.

"I gie them a skelp as they're creepin'
Wi' a cog o' guid swats."—"Auld Sang."

• Coggie, 160, dim.
• Condie, 120, 172, 240, conduit, F. conduire
• Contigue, 239, contigue
• Corbie, 242, corbeau, O.F. corb, corbin, corbel
• Corf, 229, corbeille
• Cowe, 68, Jam. cow, twig, broom, besom (curler's), O.F. coe, F. queue
• Cracklins, cracknel, 130, F. craque-lin, or a var. of Du. krakeling, crackle
• Cramoisie, cramasie, 229, cramoisi
• Creesh, 68, 81, grease, 63, O.F. craisse=graisse, fat, Lat. crassus, grassus, Gael, créis.
• Crusie, 135, F. creuset, crucible; O.F. cruseul, creuseau, craicet, E. cresset
• Cry, 87, écrier
• Cummers, 74, 121, 205, 240, F. commère
• Curchessis, 230, O.F. couvrechés, pl. of couvrechef
• Custock, 68, 242, kale stock, cabbage stalk, chou, Lat. caulis

D

• Deas, deece, 155, generally a long seat or bench, O.F. deis, F. dais, Lat. discus, a quoit, later Lat. a table
• Delaverly, 153, Bff.; O.F. delivre, free, at liberty, obsc.—N.E.D. M.E. delaverly, in an overflowing manner.—E.D.D. "That Mr. Waverley looks clean made and deliver."—Scott
• Devald, deval, 153, Bff.; North, stopped, left off, F. devaler, to descend, devall, to cease. "The last of the old Dukes of Gordon used to quote the saying in the text here as said by one of his farmers in the Cabrach on a wet season."—Prof. Cooper
• Disjonis, disjune, 230, 235, déjeûner, Lat. jejunus, fasting
• Dite, 239, O.F. dit, saying. "After 1500 only Sc."—N.E.D.
• Dornick, 230, cloth of Tournay
• Douce, 242, doux, O.F. dols, Lat. dulcis, sweet
• Dour, 97, 242, North. F. dur, hard
• Dresser, 1, 155; O.F. dresseur, F. dressoir, Med. Lat. directorium
• Drogs, 238, drogues—in use in 14th c.; or. uncertain
• Dule-weid, 106, 230, weed of deuil
• Dool, dole, 242, O.F. doel, Lat. dolium, grief
• Dusty-foot, 184, Sc.–Fr. trans, of pie poudreux, pede pulverosus=pie-powder
• Dyvour, 72, 115, 240, 242, devoir, "or. uncert.—may be same as diver=drowned in debt."—N.E.D.

E

• †Eglantine, 26, last syll. not conn. with tine, Go. tains, as given in text, but from O.F. aiglantier, L. Lat, aculentus, prickly
• Entress=enter and -ess, after duresse, largesse, "chiefly Sc.—right to enter."—N.E.D.
• Essay, 236, essaie
• Essonyie, 33, essoin, Go. sunja, trath, sunjôu, to excuse (may be O.H.G.), O.F. essoyner, from ex and sonia, sunnis, lawful excuse.—N.E.D.
• Evite, 239, éviter, Lat. evitare. "In 18th–19th c. almost peculiar to Sc. writers"—N.E.D.
• Exeem, 239, exempter, Lat. eximere. "Chiefly Sc."—N.E.D.
• Exerce, 239, O.F. exercer, Lat. exercere; "Chiefly Sc."—N.E.D.
• Exoner, 239, exonérer, Sc. law term
• Expede, 239, expédier, Sc. law term

F

• Fagots, 135, 182, F. bundle of sticks. In Cumb. faggot is a term of reproach, corroborating the Campbeltown interpretation given in the text. N.E.D. has, "a term of abuse app. to a woman"
• Fascherie, fachous, fashous, 86, 97, 240, O.F. fascherie, facheux, fâcheux, fâcher:—

"Troth, Caesar, whiles they're fashed eneuch."—"Twa Dogs."

• Fattrels, 240, O.F. fatraille, fatras=things of no value
• Fent, 240, f ente, Lat. findere, to split
• Fleggearis, 230, flèche
• Fond, foond, 238, fond, foundation; superseded in 18th c. by fund, Lat. fundus
• Foy, 208, O.Du. foey, a compact, from foi, faith, covenants being confirmed by eating and drinking together
• Frenges, 232, 238, O.F. frenge, frange, Lat. fimbria, border
• Fushonless, 186, 240, foison

G

• Gabarts, 232, cappers, gabare
• Gadge, 238, O.F. gauge, F. jauge
• Gag, 127, 155, 240, gage, also gig, geg; pledge in security, F. gage, var. of wage, wed, O.F. g(u)age, Go. wadja. Fife term in boys' game, "smoogle the gag," elsewhere, as in the West, pronounced "geg." The Glasgow term, "gegg," a trick, quoted in N.E.D., but not now so used, may be a var. of geek, begeck, in sense of hoax, play a trick on, and therefore not connected with "gag," "geg."—N.E.D.
• Gansel, gansald, gansallin, 136, 140, insolent retort, prop, garlic sauce for goose, O.F. ganse aillie, later, gance d'aulx, in same sense; ail is garlic. Kl. "Ger günsel, from Lat. consolida, which name the old herbalists applied to all healing plants"
• Ganzeis, 230, arrows, prob. contr. of engin; of. Burns's "gin-horse." "Obsc. or.—an Ir. gainne of similar meaning, but word not known in O.F."—N.E.D.
• Gawkie, 242, gauche. "Of difficult etym., conn. with gauche has grave difficulties."—N.E.D.
• Geans, 127, wild cherry, O.F. guigne
• Gey, 74, intensive, very, tolerable, middling, var. of gay, F. gai (from 12th c.)
• Gloy, 62, Orc. straw ropes. Not in Jam. F. (dial.) glui, barley straw, prob. Flem. and N., and thus came to Sc.

"Quhais rufis laitly full rouch thykyt war,
Wyth stra or gloy by Romulus the wycht."

Doug. Aen., 8, 11, 31.

• Giglot, 137, a romping girl, F. gigelot (14th c.), conn. with giggle
• Girnel, 135, garnel, sp. Sc. a bin for corn, meal, or salt, influenced by F. grenaille, refuse corn, O.F. grenier, Lat. granarium
• Gote, 172, goat, a ditch, water-way, O.F. gote, gouttière, gutter
• Gree, 242, O.F. gré, Lat. gradus, a step.
• Grogram, 231, gros-grain
• Grozets, 127, 240, grossarts, groser, grozart, sp. Sc. gooseberry, F. groseille, with r for l
• Gusty, 242, goût

 

H

• Hallion, halones, 160, idle, worthless fellow; or. uncert. Cf. F. haillon, rag.— N.E.D.
• Hashy, 151, untidy, hash, something cut up into small pieces—verb, to hash; F. hacher, hache, hatchet
• †Haverel, 240, poisson d'avril
• Hogmanay, 104, last day of the year, cake-day; obsc. but app. of F. origin.—N.E.D.
• Hotch, 178, 242, Du. hotsen, to jog, jolt, Ger. dial. hotzen, F. hocher, to shake.— N.E.D.

"To pay the bygane towmont's rent,
John Doo cam hotchin' east."

• Hurcheon, 234, hérisson

 

J

• Jambs, 135, 240, 241, sides of a fireplace, as if legs, jambe, F.; Gael. camb, crooked; late Lat. gamba, hoof, leg
• Jigot, 241, gigot
• Joctelegs, 242, Jacques de Liege
• Joist, 241, O.F. gîste

 

L

• Lettron, 238, lutrin, O.F. letrin
• Lowe, 53, 234, allouer
• Lozen, 139, var. of lozenge, F. losange

 

M

• Maister, 134, 209, maître
• Mashlum, mazlin, 183, coarse cake made of mixed grains, O.F. mesteil, F. méteil, Du. masteluin, Lat. mistus, mixed
• Mell, mall, 133, Shet., a broad fist, mason's mallet, cog. with maul and with F. mail
• Mell, 242, mêler
• †Messan, 183, Jam. from Messina or F. maison, N.E.D. prob. a house, Gael. meas-an, meas-chu, a lap-dog
• Mishanter, 92, corr. of misadventure, O.F. mesaventure

"For nivver syne ever they ca'd as they came,
Did sic a mishap and mishanter befa' me."

• Mooter, multure, 70, mill-fee for grinding corn, O.F. molture, F. mouture, Lat. molitura
• Mowles, 234, mule
• Mummers, 104, actors in dumb show, "F. mommeur, prob. of Teut. or.=mum."— N.E.D.
• Muntar, 237, montre

 

N

• Nappie, 198, ale, prop, a wooden bowl, A.S. hnaep, Du. nap, a drinking cup, O.F. hanap. Low Lat. hanapus, E. hanaper, hamper
• Nottar, 238, notaire

 

O

Oblissis, oblischement, 236, 239, obliger

• Olfend, 21, A.S. camel, O.F. olifant, elephant, M.E. olifaunt, Go. ulubandus
• Oralog, 229, horloge
• Osill, 234, oiseau

 

P

• Pace, 241, peser
• Paitrick, 124, 234, partridge, perdrix
• Palmer, 104, tawse, ferula, pawmie, Lat. palma, F. paume
• Panse, 237, panser
• Pantonis, 229, 234, patin, a skate
• Parish, pairish, 241, paroisse
• Parsell, 234, persil, parsley
• Pasch, 15, 186, 229, Pâque for Pasque, Go. Paska=Easter
• Passments, 233, passementerie
• Pauchlin, 212. Jam.—Under bachle, a pendicle, O.F. bachle, as much land as twenty oxen could plough in an hour
• Pawmie, 134, paume, Lat. palma
• Pawrlies, 130, parlies, var. of parliament cake, parler
• Peevor, 127, paveur, F., syn. with pealall, girl's game
• Pend, 241, pendre
• Pery, 238, pirouette
• Petticoat-tails, 241, petits gateaux
• Pie-powder, 184. See dusty foot
• Plack, copper coin=4d., Sc, introd. by Fleming's plaque, a "metal dish"
• Plash, 173, Cu. to trim a hedge, to intertwine branches, O.F. plaissier, Lat. plectere, cog. pleach.—Shak.
• Plumbe damies, 232, prune de damas
• Poopit, 73, Sc. pulpit, Fr. pupître
• Popinjay, 241, papegai, papingo, from O.F. papegau
• Pottage, 85, 235, potage
• Pouches 123, poche
• Protticks, 84, Sc.
• Prattick, 93, Gael. Jam. prattik, F. pratique, astrology
• Provost, 80, O.F. prevost, prévôt, Lat. præpositus, a prefect
• Puppettis, puppie, 231, 241, poupée
• Pursie, 234, pourcif, for M.F. poussif

 

R

• Ribbet, dressed corner-stones in a building; raboter, to plane
• Rose, a watering-can, arroser, lit. to bedew. "Gang and rooser the claise on the green."—Gr.

 

S

• Saim, 130, sayme, prov. E. seam, lard, fat; Lat. sagina, fatness, F. sain. It. saime
• Sasine, 73, Sc. law term, O.F. saisir, saisine, L. Lat. sacire, to put in possession, seised—Shak.
• Say, 230, soie
• Sconce, 202, E.—"a small fort, Da. skandse, Ger. Schanze, a fort, prob. O.F. esconser, to hide"—Sk. See sconce
• Scoryettis, 237, O.F. escorcher. "6 buistis scrotcheitis and confectis presentit to my Lord Duke Chatterlhaut in this town."—"Glasgow Records," 1574
• Servet, 235, serviette
• Siedge, 235, siège; a seat.—Spenser
• Sklate, 241, éclater
• Sorn, 69, 201, to sponge upon, sornin, sponging, sorners, parasites, O.F. sorner, to cheat, sournois, malicious. It. sornione, a sneak
• Sowder, 234, soother, soudure
• Spaul, 241, épaule
• Stoep, 25, 188, 207, C. Du. étape, a halting place
• Stour, 56, dust (of battle), O.F. estour, Teut. or.
• Suker, 232, sucre
• Suldarts, 234, soldart
• Suplee, 239, supplèer
• Sybows, 241, ciboule, O.F. cibo, Lat. cepa; cf. chesbol, a poppy
• Syer, 238, O.F. essuier, esuer

 

T

• Taffetas, 230, taffetaa. "Ane hand senyie (Fr. enseigne) of talfitie of the tounes cullouris."—"Stirling Records," 1622
• Tailzeour, 92, 230, teelyir, tiler, teilleur
• Tap, 238, toupie
• Tansy, 148, O.F. tanasie, athanasie, Gr. ἀθανασία, immortality. Not in Jam.
• Tapischere, 230, tapisserie
• Tarre, 69, tirran, Orc. to cross, provoke. Under "tarry," Skeat shows it is due to confusion of M.E. tarien, to irritate, and M.E. targen, to delay, from O.F. targer, Mod. F. tarder, L. Lat. tardicare, tardus, slow. We also find O.F. tarier, to vex. Cf. O.Sc. targe, to beat, rate severely. "Tarveal, fretful."—"Elgin K. S. Records"
• Tassis, 230, tasse
• †Tawpie, 136, 242, taupe; French or. doubtful
• Thrammels, thrammel, 147, stall-fastening of a cow, E. trammel, F. tramail, a net, Sc. trammel-net
• Tincler, 232, étinoelle
• Tirlets, 236, tirailler
• Tooly, toolye, tulzie, 107, 184, 241, Cu. combat, a quarrel, broil. Jam. O.F. touiller, to mix
• Toy, 243, toque. Da hoved-toi, headdress
• Trances, 135, 146, a passage inside a house, F. transe
• Travelloure, 232, 236, travailleur
• Trebuchet, 232, trébuchet
• Trencher, 231, 235, tranchoir
• Truncheor, 235
• Treviss, 131. 140, 176, 241, O.F. tref, Lat. trabs, a beam
• Triacle, treckle, 234, triacle, "treacle," Cot., Mod. F. thériaque
• Tripans, 231, trépan
• Trockit, 151, bartered, F. troquer, to barter, E. truck
• Turcusses, 231, O.F. torser
• Tureen, 241, terrine
• Turse, 231, O.Fr. trusser, torser (Lat. tortiare, to twist, bind up); cf. tirr
• Turner, 241, tournois
• Tweel, 241, toile
• Twis, 230, étui

V

• Vacations, 128, long holidays at school, Fr. vacance
• Valour, 236, valeur
• †Vie, 23. Not, as in text, conn. with Go., but contracted from O.F. envie, M.F. envier, Lat. invitare

 

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I have to thank Mons. F. J. Amours, B.A., for carefully revising the foregoing section (Sc. Fr.) in the light of his exceptional knowledge of old and modern French as well as of Lowland Scots.

 

printed by william green and sons, edinburgh.

1. Words not found here may be looked for in the Sc.-Fr. Section. The Indo-Ger. cognates (246-256) have not been entered here except as regards their Sc. or Go. elements.