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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