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		 <note type="N">IG06-10220</note>
		 <note type="L">142</note>
		 <note type="B">1895</note>
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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>December, 1895</date><idno>IG06-10220</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span>SOUTH ARAN IRISH.</span>
<lb n="1"/><span>(Continued.)</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>D. </span>
<lb n="4"/><span>1. Dán, a rope tied round a cow's horns to prevent her</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>going over board(in shipping). Peigi.</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>2. Dubhchorach (fem.), maidenhair fern.  Tea is made</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>from the dried leaves.</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>3. Domhnach chrúm du, the last Sunday of July, this</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>year on the 28th. Páidín. </span>
<lb n="10"/><span>4. Dorcha: fear dorcha, a dark-mannered, surly man.</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>5. Duig, dag: a pin was stuck in the pipes, so that</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>the piper could not get "duig na dag" out of them.</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>Dreóilín. [probably pure slang.]</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>6. Dinglis, noun, not used as verb: cuir dinglis ann,</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>"tickle him." [gigleas means "tickling."]</span></p>
<lb n="16"/>
<lb n="17"/><p><span>E.</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>1. Erriferth(approximate English sound): tá sé i n'</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>erriferth = he is very nearly a full-grown man.</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>Micheál. [This points to an Irish word, oirbheart.</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>Foirbheart, airbheart, or fairbheart. Perhaps for</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>foirbh-fhear, which occurs in Cath Ruis na Ríg,</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>modern version, p. 103, where foirbhfhir is translated</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>"aged men," a rendering questioned in the foot-note.]</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>2. Eidir eatorrab, i lár, in the middle, between</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>two others.  In such case the middle object is fa or</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>faoi the other two. [Eatarrob= eatorra, Galway</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>Bay dialect.]</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>3. D'euluigh sé orm: it (e.g. sleep) or he (e.g, the</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>policeman) came on me unawares. Páidín. [Verbal</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>noun eulódh. With ó it means "to steal away from,</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>escape from." With ar it means "to steal upon,</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>come unawares upon."]</span></p>
<lb n="34"/>
<lb n="35"/><p><span>F.</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>1. Fuaduigheadh iad they(houses) were stripped of their</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>roofs.</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>2. Fál a pigstye.  The f sound between fw and wh.</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>[That is, it is an f formed by the two lips, and not as</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>in English by the lower lip an upper teeth.]</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>3. Fiodh(fih) a fathom of six feet. Micheál[Usually</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>feadh.]</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>4. Feidhleadóir, a fiddler. [The word fidil, which</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>would now be fidhil, occurs in the ancient poem</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>on Oenach Carmen.  The usual word at present</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>is bheidhlinn, from violin.]</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>5. Fuarlach, a sudden flood of rain.</span></p>
<lb n="48"/>
<lb n="49"/><p><span>Eoing Riocaird O Murchadha.</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>(To be continued.)</span></p>
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