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Cairn Capercaillie Claymore Trousers Bard [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel".The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (bardos) and ancient Latin (bardus) writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the ...
These lists of English words of Celtic origin include English words derived from Celtic origins. These are, for example, Common Brittonic , Gaulish , Irish , Scottish Gaelic , Welsh , or other languages.
Dr Victor Skretkowicz was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1942; joined the University of Dundee's English Department in 1978 and in 1989, became the Dundee University's representative on the Joint Council for the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue being elected as its convenor three years later. Under his direction it was responsible for ...
List of English words of Scots origin (i.e. Lowland Scots (Lallans, Doric etc.)) List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin Topics referred to by the same term
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin; Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997 ...
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List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots. Blackmail A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations. blatant ...
1958 Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist and Eriskay by Rev. Allan MacDonald; 1979 Abair Facail, a pocket-dictionary by John MacDonald and Ronald Renton; 1981 The New English-Gaelic Dictionary by Derick Thomson; 1991 Appendix to Dwelly's Gaelic-English Dictionary by Douglas Clyne (ed.)