Blair Collection > Gaelic names of beasts (mammalia), birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, etc

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BRACH
Bean, a she goat.
Beannach-nimhe, a horned
monster.
BeathacHj a beast, a cow,
animal, living creature
(Welsh beich).
Beathachan-feoir, lesser shrew.
Beathadach, beathodaeh, a
beaver.
Beisd, beist, a beast.
Beisd or biasd-na-sgrogaigj the
unicorn (Skye).
Beisd-dubh or donn, an otter.
Beisd-mhaol, a seal, a sea calf.
Beithir, a bear, any wild beast.
Beo, beodail, beothir, live
animals, cattle.
Beo-chrodh, live stock ; beo-
chrod (Ir. W. S.).
Beodhuil, animal, living
creature.
Beothach, a beast, cow, animal,
any living creature.
Beutail, cattle, a cow, herds.
Bias, biasd, biast, a beast.
Binne-bheathach, a horned
beast or animal.
BioRACH, bioraiche, a two-year-
old heifer, a cow, calf, a steer,
a year old horse or colt.
BioRAiDH, a bullock, a steer.
BiREiD, biride, a breeding cow.
BiRicHE, a filly.
BiTH, bitheach, animal, beast,
living creature.
Blad, bladair, blaideire, bleidire,
a wolf.
Bladnait, blatnait, a weasel.
Blaoc, blaoch, a whale.
Blarag, a whitefaced cow.
Blath-mheul, or mhiol, sea
monster.
Bleach, bleachd, kine giving
milk.
Bleanach, a full-faced cow.
Bleid or bleidh-mhiol, a whale.
Bleodhannach, full uddered
milking cow.
Bi.ETH, a whale.
Bliadhnach, a yearling animal.
Bmanach, an animal which had
died of starvation.
Bmochd-laith, a milch cow.
Bloach, a whale.
Bo, a cow ; rarely, a fawn.
Bo-ALLUiDH, a buffalo, buffalo
cow, a furious ox.
Bo-beannach, horned cow.
Bo-BHAiNK, a milch cow.
Bo-ionmharbhta, a cow fit for
killing (Islay charter, 1408).
Boc, a buck, a he goat, a roe
buck, an entire horse.
Boc or bod-da-bhiorain, year old
hart.
Boc-BHEALTuiNN, a wild or
unmanageable entire horse,
said to be wilder about
midsummer.
Boc-EARBA, a roe buck.
Boc-GoiBHRE, a buck or he-
goat.
BoDACH, the lesser seal.
BoDACHAN, year old hart.
BoDAG, bodog, a heifer.
BoD-AGH, a heifer fit for bearing.
Bo-GHAMHNA, a farrow cow.
BoiR, boirr, borr, an elephant.
BoiRCHE, an elk, a buffalo, large
hind.
Bois, boiscal, boiscne, cattle
(wild or of the woods).
BoiscEALL, a hind, a deer.
BoL, a cow.
Bo-LACHT, milch cow.
Bo-LAN, a full-grown cow.
Bo-LAOiGH, a milch cow, or cow
with calf.
BoLLAG, a heifer, a bullock.
BoRR-AGH, large hind.
Boss, a fat cow (Ir.).
Bo-URSAiNN, the best cow, taken
by a proprietor or other (of old)
from a newly-made widow.
Brac, reindeer.
Brach, a bear, a dog.