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.
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- 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.
- ↑ 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.
