118 COW 



Fear nam bo na h'cai ball. 



The cow's owner at her tail. Attention to one's own business. 

 Ged nach beirteadh bo an Eirinn. 



Should never a cow be calved in Ireland. A dire misfortune. 

 Geum ba air a h-eolas. 



A cow's low on known ground. 

 Is airde 'n geum na 'm bleoghann. 



The low is greater than the milking. 

 Is deacair bo a chur air laogh 's moran gaoil an gamhuinn 

 aice. 



'Tis difficult to get a cow to suffer a calf (to suck her), lit. 

 to jmt her on a calf, and she fonder of her stirk. Animal 

 law of primogeniture ! or, 

 Is duilich bo a chur air laogh 'us a gaol air gamhainn. 



A cow won't take to a calf, when her darling is a stirk. 

 Is duine coir fear da bho, is duine ro-choir fear a tri, 's cha 'n 

 fhaigh fear a coig no sia coir no ceart le fear nan naoi. 



The two-cow man is a worthy man, ver}' worthy is the man 

 of three, and the man of five or six can do nothing 

 against the man of nine. 

 Is e'ni bualadh cluigeineach a ni an crodh trotanach. 



The bad threshing makes the brisk cows. The word 

 cluigeineach literally means belled, and infers that the 

 threshing was done as gently as the tongue strikes the 

 bell, leaving ears of corn on the straw. 

 Is f hada 'chluinnear geum bo air Lon mor Lasan-tuilich. 



Far is heard a cow's low on the great meadow of LassintuUich. 

 Is f hearr a bhi gun bho na 'bhi gun mhac. 



Better have no cow than no son. 

 Is f hearr aon sine bheo na da bhoin mharbh. 



One living teat is better than two dead cows. 

 Is fhearr aon sine ba na bolla dhe'n mhin bhan. 



Better one teat of a cow than a boll of the white (Lowland) 

 meal. (See Nicolson.) Or, 

 Na da lamhaig. 



Than two axes or hatchets, the weapon by which the cow 

 was killed, or. 

 No ceathramh coirce. 

 A quarter of grain. 

 Is fhearr bo na ba. 



A cow is better than kine. That is, a good cow. 

 Is i 'bho fhein a's luaithe a mhothaicheas d' a laogh. 



The cow is the first to notice her own calf. 

 Is ioma bo f hada reamhar nach deachaidh riamh air theadhair. 

 Many a long fat cow was never tethered. Applied to women 

 who never married. 

 Is ionann bean 'us bo.. 



A cow and a woman are the same. As regards offspring. 



