Blair Collection > Treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans

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THE LANGUAGE
Tir-mhor, a continent.
tir-vore
Duthaich, a country.
du'-aych
Eillen, an island.
ellen
Doirlinn, an isthmus.
doyrlinn
Traigh, coast.
tra-i'
Cladach, beach,
cladach
Cuan, sea.
cu-an
Muir, ocean.
muyr
Camas, bay.
camas
Calla, harbour.
calla
Geob, a creek.
ge-ob
Caolas, a strait.
caolas*
Loch, a lake.
Abhuinn, a river,
avuyn
Alt, a rivulet.
Eas, a waterfall.
ess
Linne, a pool,
liiin-e
Srath, a current,
sru'
Dall-bhog, a quagmire,
dallavog
Frith, a deer forest.
fri'
mor-shruth, a rapid.
more-ru'
adhadh, a ford.
fai'-;ili'
coileam, a rapid rushing through a narrow rock-
coylem bound channel,
tober, a spring.
srath, the lower part of a glen, a valley,
sra'
dael, a plain in the curve of a river,
dal
gleann, a glen.
gleun
coire, a semi-glen in the face of a hill.
coyre
bealach, a defile or pass.
belach
aisre, a steppe among rocks,
ityshre
beinn, a mountain,
bcynn
cruach, a conical or stack-shaped mountain,
ci'u-ach
sliabh, a wold or inclined table-land,
sli-av
slios, the flank or side of a mountain.
slis
scur, a cliff,
scùr
mointeach, a moor,
iiioyntech
càrr, a dry moor, rutted with winter water-courses.
Ion, a moist plain or meadow.
cos, a cleft.
cnagan, a knag in a tree or rock,
cnagan
Grianan, a sunny knoll, (a innis, an island ; also a roosting place.
gri-an-an fairy brugh.)
Sithean, a fairy knoll or i, an island (obsolete.)
shi'-en brugh.
Bruach or brugh, a bank airidh, a shieling or Highland summer residence,
bru-ach bru' ayri'
or ridge; alsoaclachan.
Cloadh, burying ground, fasach, a deer-forest, or preserved pasture,
clo' or salmon spawn- fasach
ingplace.
* AO. Here the phonic spelling is a failure ; for aw is a horrid imitation, nnd I can find no letters
that more nearly represents the sound in English.