ji cow 



licheach, li«rheach, liobhgach (newly calved), loguid (lean, starv- 

 ing), loilgheach, liiilgheacli, lulgach (newly calved), loircag (hand- 

 some, rough) ; Maithreach (mathaireach) (cow giving milk), maohig 

 (hornless), marbhuas (Old G. for "many"), mart; Ni ; Oluidh ; 

 Ileidhneach (barren) (Sutherland) ; Seamlach, seasg-bho, seasg- 

 lach (barren), sed, sed aine (milch, Ir.), sed-ghabhta, sedsegsaid, 

 seisgeach (barren), seod, seod-ghabhta, set, set-gabhla (three-year- 

 old heifer or full-grown, Jr.), sgabag (salted for provisions), sgarag, 

 sgiathach, sgrog, sgrogag, sgruit (lean, hard), sioltach (breeding), 

 siomlach ; Tamhaidh (gentle), tearc, tungarlagh (old). 



Assue, azew (drained of her milk — Sorn and Dorset) ; Bar- 

 roughed (fettered), buarach (?),breaady, bummick (dun),bunter,bye- 

 mir ; Caa, cah, caw, colley, colly (hornless), coo, coost, corkyfyre, 

 cowde, cowdy, cowlin, cowyll, crockey, crocky (small), crummet, 

 crummie, crummock (crooked horned), cuUyat (little); Drape, 

 dhrape, dreap, dreeap, drip, drop (barren), duddy (polled) ; Etterlin 

 (two-year-old, with a calf) ; Farrow (barren), ferry (not with calf, 

 but milking), filtagh (two-year-old, calfless), furch (white-backed), 

 free-martin (incapable of breeding. Loth.) ; Gast-cow (calfless), 

 geld, gild (barren), guess (barren) ; Hawkey, hawkie (white- 

 faced), horde (in calf — Devon), huskins (calling term) ; leld 

 (barren), ion (one-year-old — Aberd.) ; Ka, kah, kahe, kaw, keaw, kee, 

 keo, keow, key, keye, kie, kowe, ku, kuhe, kuhes, kuie, ky, kye 

 (pi.) ; Lea, ley (barren, but milking) ; Mart, meneld (spotted), 

 milk, moiley, mulley (hornless — Suffolk), moily, moilya ; Newber 

 or newbare (lately calved), newted, newted-whye (one calf) ; 

 Ourbach, ourback (three-year-old without calf — Stirl.) ; Que 

 (Line), quey, quee (North), quoy, quy, quriach (young female); 

 Hhind-mart, rimpin (lean — Roxb,), raoine (young, barren), ro, 

 roving (calving — Yorksh.) ; Scoulie-horned (horns pointing down), 

 shamloch (two-year-old without calf — W. Loth.), sheld (dappled or 

 brindled), springer (springing cow in calf), sterk, stirk (one-year- 

 old), stot (three-year-old), stripper (giving milk) ; Taggie, taigie, 

 tavie (tame, ready to stand), teagie, tidy, tydie (in calf and 

 milking), yell (dry). 



The Gaelic word bo is claimed as being one of the three most 

 ancient words in the Celtic language, the other two being, cu, 

 which has so many different significations, and tor or torr, a top, 

 a hill, etc. 



Various etymologies are advanced as to the foregoing, some of 

 which are that the word cow is from the old Aryan word Gu, to 

 bellow, to low, Gau, an ox, or Ind.-Eur. Goks, whence Latin bos, 

 Ang.-Sax., Cu. In Scottish Celtic Revieiv we are told that cow and 

 bo belong to same root, bo, from which v has disappeared, leaving 

 only a trace of its existence in the long vowel, is connected with 

 Latin bos, f)ovis, Gr. /Sovs = /SoFos, Skr. gaus (stem gav) ; 



