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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>May, 1896</date><idno>IG07-10245</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span>SOUTH ARAN IRISH — IV.</span></p>
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<lb n="2"/><p><span>R.</span></p>
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<lb n="4"/><p><span>Racán, a rake used in gathering kelp.</span></p>
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<lb n="6"/><p><span>S.</span></p>
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<lb n="8"/><p><span>Stann, a tin can.</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>Sgunnsa, a bonded wall (not of a house) whether dry</span>
<lb n="10"/><span>masonry or not.</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>Spád, an English or garden spade.</span>
<lb n="12"/><span>Sgealpachaidhe, cracks or channels in rock.  (Plural of</span>
<lb n="13"/><span>sgeilp, whence the “scalp,” between Counties</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>Dublin and Wicklow).</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>Seven-Sleepers.  The caislín (stonechat), meach (=</span>
<lb n="16"/><span>beach, bee), cuach (cuckoo) and every creature that</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>disappears in winter is said to be one of the Seven</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>Sleepers.  They lie asleep as if there was draoidheacht</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>orthu.</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>Smeachaid, smeachóid, a little morsel of fire.</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>Spiognanta, caterpillar.</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>Slis, “beetle” or mallet used in washing.  Sliseáil,</span>
<lb n="23"/><span>to “beetle”.</span>
<lb n="24"/><span>Poll slugaide, a shoft concealed place in a bog.</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>Sgeul i mbárr bata, a telegram.  (Half-jocularly.</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>The expression is used as an exclamation = “non-</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>sense!”  Couriers are said to have formerly carried</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>their messages in the notch of a stick.)</span>
<lb n="29"/><span>Suicín, part of Kilronan village.  (Diminutive of sac?)</span>
<lb n="30"/><span>Poll séididh, a “puffing hole,” where the spray rises at</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>the top of the cliff, entering beneath.</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>Súsa, a bed-rug, much heavier than a blanket and too</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>thick to fold.  Uasgán bliadhna agus olann dá</span>
<lb n="34"/><span>bhliadhain air, — baintí (?) naoi bpunt 'olainn</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>lomraidh, seacht bpunt 'olainn chraicne, adhbhar</span>
<lb n="36"/><span>pluide dhá chúl agus adhbhar súsa dha chosa'.  (Perhaps =</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>A year's lamb and two years' wool on him, — there</span>
<lb n="38"/><span>used to be taken (from him) nine pounds of wool of</span>
<lb n="39"/><span>fleece, seven pounds of wool of skin, the materials of</span>
<lb n="40"/><span>a blanket oft his back, and the materials of a súsa</span>
<lb n="41"/><span>off his legs.)</span>
<lb n="42"/><span>Speach (not an Aran word) a backward kick.  Thug</span>
<lb n="43"/><span>mé speach dó.  O'C.</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>Siúd ort! (Your health!) Response.  Síod'ort,</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>nuair a bheidheas go leor eile 'caitheadh canbhas</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>(silk on you when plenty of others will be wearing</span>
<lb n="47"/><span>canvas).</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>Sláinte!  Response: Sláinte na mbradán chugat,</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>croidhe folláin agus beul fliuch.</span>
<lb n="50"/><span>Sgothmharach (or sgomhrach) fear (fir?), a man without</span>
<lb n="51"/><span>trouble, responsibility, or care.</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>(Mr D. O'Fotharta, Calla, says that ogaidín in last</span>
<lb n="53"/><span>instalment should be chugaidín (from chugad) a gesture</span>
<lb n="54"/><span>made to amuse infants).</span></p>
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<lb n="56"/><p><span>Eoin Riocaird O Murchadha.</span></p>
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<lb n="58"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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