CATTLE 85 



Tri aois cait, aois coin. 



Three ages of a cat the age of a dog. 



CATTLE. — Aidhre, ailbh, ailbhinn, ammheadh, airge, airiieir, 

 airneisj airnis (herd), alban^ albe, albin (small herd)^ almha^ arge 

 (herd), alaiiaine, aoi, aoilbhinn ; Baidne, beo, beodail (live), beothir, 

 beutail (live), bleach (kine), bolacht, bois, bois-cal, buaibh, bualachd 

 (drove), buar ; Caernideacht, ceathra, ceathraidh, ceathramh, cethra, 

 cro, crodh, crodh-creic creiche no seiche (selling), cuallach, cunadh 

 (stock) ; Dartan, dartan-eallaigh (herd or drove), dearginleadh 

 (red), drobh ; Ealbha, eallach, eallaidh, eallaidh-meith (fat), eallamh, 

 ed, edal, eid, eit, eitibh, eitidh, eithithibh, eltlagh, elta (flock or 

 herd), erca (Ir.), eti, eudail ; Fedoil, fein-eallach, feudal, feudail, 

 fionn-fholaidh (white kine), fo-chrodh (infr., little, mean, small), 

 fol, foladh (a dowry of cattle) ; Gesca, small herds (Henebry), 

 greidh, greigh ; lall, indili (^liev. Celt.), inneil, innile, inilt, ionnail ; 

 Lochraidh, lochruidh ; Meanbh-chrodh, meathusradh (fatlings), 

 meidh-alach or allach, meitheallach (fat), min-eallach, mor-dhamh 

 (leader), Welsh raodryadav ; Neimneime (non-exempt, Brehon 

 laws), ni, nimhe (exempt, Brehon laws), nith ; Sath (drove), 

 sealbh, sealbhan, seasaich, seasgachd (herd of barren), seasglaich, 

 segsaid, sgann, sgann-sgriod (drove), slabhraidh, slaibhre, slonnudh, 

 speil, spreidh, sread, sreath, stuaidh ; Tain, tainte, tan, tlas, 

 tlus, trend. 



Drove, druve ; Elves (yomig) ; Fee (Germ, vich) ; Huff, 

 hiimlag, hummell, hummell-doddy, hummie (hornless) ; Kine, 

 kinsch, koorin (Shet.), ky, kye, kyloe (drove) ; Neat, nolt, nout, 

 now, nowie, nowt, nowte ; OUee, outlers (unhoused) ; Tavie 

 (tamhaidh, tame). 



The word "eudail" said to be from root " ed," profit or gain. 

 The English word "neat" is from Teut. "nut," and Aryan "nud," 

 meaning useful, usefulness. In the book of the Dean of Lismore 

 occurs " Greidh is aidhre Mhananain," the herds and flocks of the 

 Isle of Man. Caledonian cattle are peculiar to the North, the 

 breed is still preserved in Chillingham Park and a few other 

 places. For descriptions, see Cadzow Castle, also Lesley, and Laijs 

 of the Deer Forest by the Sobieski Stuarts, Vol. II. 



These cattle, described by Boethus (see Bellenden's translation 

 in Vol. I. of Chron. Scot.), are said to have been once plentiful in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, while, as given in the Chronicles of 

 Eri, Boeotia is just bo iath, the land of cattle. Sir Jacob Wilson 

 writes that when the Romans invaded Britain, the stock in that 

 country, which, on Caesar's authority, was abundant, consisted of 

 the small Celtic cattle, the descendants of the has longifrons, which 

 retired with their Celtic owners before the invaders to the western 



