390 TORPEDO— TROUT 



TORPEDO— Orc-iasg. 



TROUT. — Ala, aladh (Old Ir. signifying speckled); Banag, beil- 

 geag (small), breac, breac-gheal (salmon), breachd, bric-dheasg 

 (ruddock), bricein (small or burn) ; Cainreach (small), ceann-dubh, 

 colagan, colgan (salmon) ; Dubh-bhreac, dubhlochan, duileachan ; 

 Farabhreac (spent), feannag, fionnag (white); Gabhlachan (young), 

 geadag (large), geala-bhricein (sea-trout), gealag (white), glas- 

 bhreac, gobhachan, gobhlachan (young) ; I.iathag (salmon) ; 

 Maighre, maighreulan, mairerralan (Ir.), maireulan (salmon) ; 

 Samhnachan, samhnag, samhnan (large river), etc. 



Alderling, allerfloat, allertrout (lurker 'neath alder-tree roots) ; 

 Beeran (bioran small), Berwick, black, black-head, boddomlier, 

 botcher (salmon), buddagh (Ir.), bull ; Candue, candul, case-charr, 

 cendue (Loch Leven) ; Dolachan, dolaghan, dolochan, dowbreck ; 

 Feannog, finnack, finner, finnock, finnog, finnor (white) ; Gairun 

 (sea), gerron, gillaroo (Ir.), gilt-charr, grey, grilse, gull (large) ; 

 Hardhead (loch), herling, hirling ; Lammasmen (large loch), lin- 

 keeper (stationary) ; Peal (Devon) ; Phinnick, phinnoc, phinnock 

 (white) ; Rack-rider (North), red-belly or charr, round-tail, ruddock 

 (grey) ; Salmon, scurfe (salmon), sea, sewin (Wales), shot (west), 

 silver charr, smelt, Sperling, spirling, spaithie ; Torgoch, triotht, 

 troyte, truht (A. S.) ; Whiten, whitling (salmon), etc. 



From Teutonic " tru," etc., to gnaw, to nibble, to bore. The 

 Welsh name for the bull-trout is brech-y-dail, the fall of the leaf, 

 breacadh na duilleige, the browning or speckling of the leaf — 

 autumn tints. The Loch Leven trout is, i?iier alia, called gelletroch 

 or red-womb trout ; bull or bill-trout are also called cendue or 

 camdue. For many names given to the salmon-trout see Salmon. 



In a certain loch near Pitnain, Inverness-shire, a small deformed 

 or malformed trout exists, and in Loch I slay, a tailless trout. 

 Goodrich Freer tells us that the trout in South Uist are finless, 

 having lost them by a niggardly man saying " Devil a fin " had 

 he taken, when his creel was full of trouts. Every loch or stream 

 indeed may be said to have its own peculiar kind of trout, at least 

 in outward appearance. When trout are found in a loch without 

 inlet or outlet, they are vulgarly supposed to have fallen from the 

 sky. This is the origin of the name of a loch in Gairloch called 

 lochan-nam-breac-adhair, the lochan or little loch of the air-trouts. 

 The trout called dubhlochan or dolochan is a large loch-trout, or 

 the salmoferox; the gillaroo trout is said to have a gizzard like a 

 fowl. R. McDonald describes the trout as follows: "Na brie 

 tharra-ghealach, earr-ghobhlach. shliom," the white-bellied fork- 

 tailed, sleek trouts ; while another writer speaks of them as : " Na 

 brie le 'n cladh luaineach," the trouts with running spawning. 



Brie a beadagaig is a saying meaning trouts leaping. 



In Lightfoot's Flora Scoiica it is stated that the phinoc is 



