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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="215"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>NOTES AND QUERIES.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>(279).  Binne, an agreement for the proportionate graz-</span>
<lb n="4"/><span>ing of land held in common.  Sum, the unit of reckoning</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>the carrying power of grazing land.  Conjecturally from</span>
<lb n="6"/><span>suth, foetus, offspring - M'Swiney's Windisch, paragraph</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>128.  Sum first perhaps cow with sucking calf.  Com-</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>pare suimín, a small drink, sumairé, where a mountain</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>stream disappears underground.  Land Law (Ireland) </span>
<lb n="10"/><span>Act, 1896, First Schedule, Query 3, says "sums" or</span>
<lb n="11"/><span>"collops".</span>
<lb n="12"/></p>
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<pb n="215"/>
<div><lb n="13"/><p><span>(280).  Unsoir whether ionnsuige air or one simple</span>
<lb n="14"/><span>word is the question.  </span></p>
<lb n="15"/>
<lb n="16"/><p><span>(282).  Trumpalan, a large bettle (the better known word</span>
<lb n="17"/><span>ciaróg is applied to a beetle slenderer in body).  Püca</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>the insect known as the "field-bug."  Neóinin buidhe, a</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>buttercup (daisy is distinguished as neóinin ban).</span>
<lb n="20"/><span>Bainne na n-eun, the dandelion.  Clocha scail, the</span>
<lb n="21"/><span>crystals known as "Kerry diamonds."  Uisge clóthaidh,</span>
<lb n="22"/><span>warm (not hot) water.  [</span></p>
<lb n="23"/>
<lb n="24"/><p><span>Caiseal, a child's spinning-top.  Builtin, a little garden.</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>Puicin, a small sheepfold.  Triam, the elder-tree.</span>
<lb n="26"/><span>Laban alla, a spider.  Aran glas, pennywort.  Arach,</span>
<lb n="27"/><span>a ship (I suppose a curruption of "argosy").  Arach maol,</span>
<lb n="28"/><span>a dismasted ship. - R.A. STIUBHAIRT MACALASDAIR.</span></p>
<lb n="29"/>
<lb n="30"/><p><span>[Trumpalan = triompallan for priompallan; triam</span>
<lb n="31"/><span>should be truim; laban alla is evidently a corruption of </span>
<lb n="32"/><span>the usual dubhan alla; arach should be arthach, which</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>was formerly spelt arthrach.  - ED.]</span></p>
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<lb n="35"/><p>
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