380 SALMON 



Fara-bhradan (spent), feannaiir, fioniia<r (youn^), ffarthuinn ; 

 Gadluinii, <raclluinne (spawned), gill' o<(, gille-ruadli (parr), glasag 

 (fern.), glas-bhreac, gobhachan, gobhlachan (yountr), grealnach, 

 grealsach ; lacb, ia<j^, iasg-druimein ; Liathag (young) ; Maighre, 

 raaighreadh (shoal of), maireun (small), mairneach (full), nieas 

 (Old Ir.), moghna, mugna; Ore; Kac-mhara or mhaighreadh, 

 righ-nan-iasg ; Sarach ; Toinneamh. 



Baggit (fern.), beikat, ben-salmon, blackfin, blaege (A. S.), 

 blay, bleak, blue-fin, botcher (two years), bramlin, bramling, 

 brandlin, brandling, branlie, branlin, brannock, brood, bykat ; 

 Candavaig (freshwater), cocksper ; Esling (young); Fingerling 

 (very young), fork-tail ; Gaurel, gerling (returned from sea), 

 gerrat, gerrit (young), gibfish, gilling, gilloge (Ir.), gilse, ginkin, 

 girling, girlss, girsill (young), graulse, gravel, graveling, gravelling, 

 grawl, grilse (spawned) ; Half-fish, hepper (young), hirling 

 (young); Jerkin, judy ; Kelt, kipper; Laspring, lax, leax, lex 

 (A. S.), ligger (foul) ; Marten (young), milter (male) ; Parr, pink 

 (young), pug (three years) ; Rauner (fern.), red or rede-fish 

 (spawning), romal, ronnal, ronnel (fem.) ; Salmon fry peel or 

 spring (young), samlet, scad (fry), shad (small), shedder, sile, sill 

 (young), simen (North), sked, skeggar, skegger, skerling, slat, 

 smelt, smolt, smoult, sparling, sprag, sprint (young), sprod-mort, 

 summer-cock ; VVhiteling, whiling (spawning), etc. 

 Cawg, Hwddell, semyw (Welsh). 



This word is supposed to be derived from the Latin salire, to 

 leap; there is an old word "sar" to go. Kipper means primarily 

 a spawned salmon, secondarily one preserved thus, though in the 

 Lothians, etc., it applies to a male. Beikat or bykat are so named 

 from the beak or underjaw of the fish. Salmon-peel are the salmon 

 on their first return from the sea ; smelts, smoults, or samlets, the 

 second season after hatching or being hatched. Ben-salmon 

 applies to a kind said to be smaller, darker in back, and whiter 

 in belly, weighing from seven to ten lbs. ; black-head is a salmon 

 that has lain in fresh water till well on in summer — a foul salmon. 

 The term iasg-druimein or iesg-druimin means speckled or marled 

 fish or salmon, and is less than the ordinary salmon, as described 

 by Martin, having strong large scales, swimming high or near the 

 surface of the water. It is, or was, plentiful in Benbecula. Another 

 fish called "lochebe," is said to be like a salmon, but without 

 scales, or at best very small ; this, however, has been thought to be 

 the "coalfish," being very black on back, and white on belly. 

 The term "calvered," is used in regard to a particular way of 

 preparing a fresh salmon, while the word mairneach or maireunach 

 is used to express "salmon full"; "shad" salmon are so called 

 merely because they arrive at a certain place at the same time as 

 the shad. 



Every Scot is familiar with the appearance of the fish (a salmon) 



