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PANTHER.— Paindeal. 



PIG. — Ainmidh (litter), aire (sow), aitheoh (Old Ir.), arc, 

 arcain, arcan (sueking), are-craniiach (young — lit. son of a sow), 

 arc-mhuc, are-rauice (male), athach (Old Ir.) ; Baedh (boar), bainbh, 

 banabh, banabhin, banban, banbh, banbhan, birid (breeding) — 

 (? beiridh) ; Caileach (hog), caois, ceann-cula (leader), ceis, ceisin, 

 coilbhinn, coilleadh (hog), coilmein, coilmhinn, comlachdaigb, 

 euineal, cumlach (sucking), crain (female), cribus (Old Ir.), cro, 

 cula-cheann (leader) ; Deil, deileang (two-year-old), deile-muic or 

 thorc, durraidh ; Feis, fionn (sow), foir ; Gata, gearr-miola-dearg 

 (a short red animal), gius, gius-aidh ; Lia, lulpat, lupait ; Mat, 

 mata, miaduig, miadugh, midisi, more (boar), muc, muc-ainidhe 

 (with young), muccin, muc-fhinn, a milch pig (brood sow), muc- 

 forais (house-fed), muc-glasach (fatted) (lit. animal with a snout), 

 mugart (Old Ir.) ; Oircean, ore, orca, orcan (young) ; Peileag, 

 peilig, poircean, poircein, pore, porcan ; Rue, ruchd, rucht, rem-ec 

 (roimh-eug), prematurely dead ; Samh, scuithe, speil (drove or 

 herd), speil or speile-cheann (leader), suig ; Tochra (small) ; 

 Uircean, uircein (young). 



Anthony ; Baerie (boar), bally (litter), barling (smallest), barra 

 (gelt or gelded — Exmoor), barrow, baru, boar-seg (three or four 

 years old), boar-stag, boneen (sucking), bonham (young), bonyeen, 

 boyeen (little), brawn (boar) ; Cad (very small), cadma (least), 

 cardidwin (youngest), chowny, crit, crowly, cruit, curry (sucking) ; 

 Daniel, diddle, diddling, dilling, dilly, doreneed ; Eavor (boar — 

 Old Eng.), eervar (last of litter, fhior bharr), eleanor, elt (young 

 sow — West), farrow (litter), fezzle, flutter; Gait, galti (A. S.), 

 gaut (castrated — Roxb., Shet., etc.), gauntie (Wilts), geassy, 

 geulty (sucking), gill (female), gilt (spayed), giss, gissy (North), 

 gorral, gorrel (young), goosy, gracie (Roxb.), graff (hand-bred), 

 gramfer, greek (youngest), griskin, grunter, gruntillot, grunline, 

 gruntling, gruntling-cheat, grunty, gurrell (young), gussy (spayed), 

 guttrel (Gall.) ; Heever (boar), hoch (Cornw.), hoglin, hogling, 

 hoglyn ; lit (gelt sow — Devon); Jorey (smallest); Kep (dead 

 littered), kerdidwin (youngest), knurdy ; Mallock, mudvite, inudy- 

 veetick (Shet.) ; Norrie, nurdy (smallest), nurk (worst) ; Paatie, 

 parram.arrowed sow (gelded — North), pet-man (smallest), piggy- 

 whiddin (weakling, white one) ; Rackling (very small — Suff.), 

 rinklin (last littered), rit, rut, rutling (smallest in a litter), rookler 

 (young) ; Sawney Cammull, shoat (half-grown — Chesh.), shot 

 (half-grown), slip (young), sow, sow-met (young female — North) ; 

 Tanthony, team (litter — Kent) ; Veer (young — Cornw.) ; Whinock ; 

 Yelte, yilt (young sow — North). 



The word " ore " used to be " pore," akin to the Latin jwrcus. 

 The word " Muceodha " is Irish Gaelic for swineherd, " ced arc " 



