The McBrides / A Romance of Arran

by John Sillars

LIST OF GAELIC NAMES AND EXPRESSIONS.

Crotal, lichen.
"A traill," you sluggard.
Cleiteadh mor, big ridge of rocks.
Bothanairidh, summer sheiling.
Birrican, a place name.
Rhuda ban, white headland.
Bealach an sgadan, Herring slap.
Skein dubh, black knife.
Crubach, lame.
Mo ghaoil, my darling.
Direach sin, (just that), (now do you see).
Lag 'a bheithe, hollow of the birch.
Mo bhallach, my boy.
Ceilidh, visit (meeting of friends); ceilidhing; ceilidher.
Cha neil, negative, no.
Mo leanabh, my child.
Cailleachs, old women.
Og, young.
Mhari nic Cloidh, Mary Fullarton.