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North), dinmont, dok, drape (barren ewe — North), dummond, 

 dummott, dumpy-willy (pet), dunmond, dur (yearlin/r)^ dymmond ; 

 Eik-weder, eow, eu, ewe, ewies, ewis (pi.) ; Fitfall (lamb-grown), 

 fronter, frunter (four-year-old ewe) ; (ianimer, ginimer, guess- 

 sheep (barren), gymber, gymbure ; Hob (two years — Cornw.), hog, 

 hogaster, hogatte, hogget, hoggrel (two years), hog-mutton, horna 

 (one year), hump-glutteral (died natural death), hypald, hyppalt ; 

 Katmoget (dark-bellied gimmer), keb, kebbed-ewe (lost her lamb — 

 Ett. Forest), keut (Ir.), kliv, klivsie (Shet.), klovik ; Lammermoor 

 lion (Loth.), Ihuske (flock — Jr.), long-sheep (Cheviots); Mailie, 

 maillie, mapsie (pet), morkin (died outside), mud-sheep (Teeswater 

 breed — North), mug, mugg (hornless — Ladykirk), mutton (Fr.); 

 Napsie (fat) ; Owe ; Pegge (three-year ewe), podart (young — Line.), 

 polly, pur (one-year male) ; Quinter (two years) ; Rake, ree-dur 

 (one-year-old male); Scart (fern, hermaph.), Sceap, seep, sharhog 

 (yearling — North), sheat (young hog — Cotgrave), sheder (fern. 

 — Line.), shipp (Oxford), shot (ill-grown — Perth), sock, sock-lamb 

 (pet — Sussex), square-ewe (four-year), strales (two-year — North) ; 

 Theave (one-year ewe — Ray), thrunter (three years), towmonds, 

 twolmonds (two years wedder), twice shorn, twinter (two years) ; 

 Yaa, yaw, yeaw, yeo, yeow, yew, yio (Exmoor), yo, yoe, yoh, youe, 

 yow, yowe, yowies (pi.) ; Zowe. 



The etymology of the word "Ewe" is said to be from the 

 Sanscrit "aw," to please, etc., hence awe or ewe, pleasing, gentle 

 favourite; the word "mutton" from the Armoric word "maud"; 

 the word "deat or deata" is said to be from "deth," suck, or a 

 sheep still sucking. A lamb's skin is " uainiceag " or "uainicionn." 

 A Celtic scholar, the Rev. J. Mackay, Canada, favours us with one 

 view as to the word "caor," he considering it to come from 

 "curro," I run, suiting, as he says, the young lamb, which is 

 often designated "skipping." In that case, caor, cur, a dog, a 

 courser, a horse, a current, a stream, a courier, messenger, carrier, 

 all are words involving the idea of " running." 



The word "oe" is Irish Gaelic, and gives the w^ord "oegaire," 

 shepherd, a driving shepherd being styled " Immonn-oegaire," 

 ioman-aodhaire, while O'Connor gives " Caoircaon," as another 

 name for shepherd. Aedhaire is another spelling, as given in the 

 Irish phrase,^" Aedhaire ag na cairib," the shepherd of (at) the sheep. 

 Ai is given in the Senchus mor, and "ai-gaire," shepherd, while 

 "li" means fleece. The word "crog" means, among farmers 

 keeping a large stock, a sheep of six shears, generally sold in 

 November or December; among smaller holdings or crofters, 

 crogs may be eight shears. A sheepfold in Irish Gaelic is 

 "Comora" or "Cumara" comraich, a protection, a shelter. 

 "Glomhar" is the word for a band put on a sheep's teats to 

 prevent the lamb sucking her, from glojnk, to gag ; a rope round 

 a sheep's neck is called in Aran "braighdean." In the Book of 

 Lecan old Irish Gaelic words for sheep are "Cetnat" and "Cit" ; 



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