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ETYMOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE.
ETYMOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY
OF THE
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE;
IN WHICH
AND
DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS.
JOHN JAMIESON, D. D.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, AND OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
EDINBURGH:
PREFACE
As many, who would wish to possess the original work, cannot now be supplied; while it has still been out of the reach of others, not less interested in our national literature; the Author has been advised to give it to the Public in an abridged form.
While this work contains a variety of words which are not to be found in the quarto edition, the Author flatters himself that he does not claim too much in supposing, that during ten years which have elapsed since it was published, he has had it in his power, from many sources formerly unexplored, to make considerable improvements both in the explanatory and in the etymological department. This, he trusts, will be evident to any who will take the trouble to compare the one work with the other.
In most instances, where he has met with new significations of the words explained in the larger work, he has inserted them in this, with their authorities. Such, indeed, is the copiousness of our vernacular language, that he is far from pretending that he has had it in his power to give a complete view of it. From the recent publication of many of our old acts formerly imprinted, from his own researches, and from the liberal communications both of friends and strangers, who have been anxious to render what they are pleased to consider a national work as complete as possible, the Author has been supplied with a great variety of terms which were formerly unknown to him. These he hopes to have it soon in his power to give to the public in an additional volume in quarto, in order to complete the former work. This, as far as he can calculate at present, will be equal in size to any of the preceding volumes.
~Edinburgh~, } May 6. 1818. }
Words not found in SH, to be sought for under SCH.
Those, in like manner, not found in WH, to be sought for under QUH, expressing the sound of the old Gothic guttural.
In One Volume 8vo, price 12s.
HERMES SCYTHICUS,
THE RADICAL AFFINITIES
OF THE
GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES
THE GOTHIC.
A DISSERTATION ON THE HISTORICAL PROOFS OF THE SCYTHIAN ORIGIN OF THE GREEKS.
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"Dr Jamieson, being amply provided with an accurate knowledge of the various dialects of the Gothic Languages to be compared with the Greek, has proved the existence of a connection between them, more extensive and more intimate than could easily have been imagined, without so laborious an investigation, in which he appears to have gone considerably further than his learned and ingenious predecessors Ihre and Rudbeck."
AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SCOTTISH LANGUAGE.
The letter A has, in the Scottish language, four different sounds:
ABBOT OF UNREASON, a sort of histrionic character, anciently exhibited in Scotland, but afterwards forbidden by Act of Parliament.
Hence,
Hence,
AIRT and PART.
AIT, oat or oaten.
ALAK,
ALAREIT.
ALLIA.
To be viewed as the same with ~Aunter~, q. v.
Hence,
A. Bor.
ART, ARD.
ARTHURY'S HUFE, the name given to the constellation Arcturus.
ARTOW, Art thou? used interrogatively, S. the verb and pronoun being often, in colloquial language, conjoined in Scottish, as in Germ. and Isl.
Corr. from ~Ensenyie~, q. v.
This word is still in use in our courts of law, as denoting satisfaction for an injury done to any party.
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