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English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter William Skeat
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N., M., a cloth, clout; _brock_, gen., a badger; _bug_, N., a bogy;
_bugaboo_, N., M., a hobgoblin; _capercailyie_, Sc., a bird;
_cateran_, Sc., a Highland robber; _char_, N., a fish; _clachan_, Sc.,
a hamlet; _clan_, N., M., a class, set of people; _claymore_, Sc.,
a two-handed sword; _colleen_, Irish, a young girl; _combe_, gen.,
the head of a valley; _coracle_, M., a wicker boat; _coronach_, Sc.,
a dirge; _corrie_, Sc., a circular hollow in a hill-side; _cosher_,
Irish, a feast; _crag_, _craig_, N., a rock; _crowd_, N., S., a
fiddle; _dulse_, N., an edible sea-weed; _dun_, gen., brown, greyish;
_duniwassal_, Sc., a gentleman of secondary rank; _fillibeg_, Sc.,
a short kilt; _flummery_, Sc., M., oatmeal boiled in water;
_gallowglass_, Sc., Irish, an armed foot-soldier; _galore_, gen.,
in abundance; _gillie_, Sc., a man-servant; _gull_, a name of various
birds; _hubbub_, _hubbaboo_, Irish, a confused clamour; _inch_, Sc.,
Irish, a small island; _ingle_, N., M., fire, fire-place; _kelpie_,
Sc., a water-spirit; _kibe_, gen., a chilblain; _linn_, N., a pool;
_loch_, N., _lough_, Irish, a lake; _metheglin_, M., S., beer made
from honey; _omadhaun_, Irish, a simpleton; _pose_, gen. (but
perhaps obsolete), a catarrh; _rapparee_, Sc., Irish, a vagabond;
_shillelagh_, Irish, a cudgel; _skain_, _skean_, Sc., Irish, a knife,
dagger; _sowens_, _sowans_, Sc., a dish made from oatmeal-husks
steeped in water (from Gael, _sùghan_, the juice of sowens);
_spalpeen_, Irish, a rascal; _spleuchan_, Sc., Irish, a pouch,
a purse; _strath_, N., a valley; _strathspey_, Sc., a dance,
named from the valley of the river Spey; _tocher_, N., a dowry;
_usquebaugh_, Sc., Irish, whiskey; _wheal_, Cornish, a mine.

Latin is a language from which English has borrowed words in
every century since the year 600. In my _Principles of English
Etymology, First Series_, Chap. XXI, I give a list of Latin words
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