NOTES ON SOME IRISH WORDS 



USED IN WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. 



Maxwell, though he must have been listening to Irish 

 spoken round him every day of his life, does not appear 

 to have really understood it, though he picked up a 

 number of words, the correct speUing of most of which 

 is given here : — 



" Sha sha " = Y ^^"6, 'f e^t), i.e., " it is, it is." This 

 sometimes answers to the English " yes," but only when 

 the verb "is " is employed. 



Avorneen = A miJi|Miin, i.e., " darling." 



Page 23, Hamish is the vocative case of Shamus 

 i.e., " James." Maxwell confounded the nominative and 

 vocative. Hamish-a-neilan = Sex^mx\f An Oite^in. 



Bawn = bxSn, white. 



Page 24, bokkogh = bACAt ; " lame." 



Page 30, clachan = " a village," from clach or cloch 

 *' a stone," is more common in Scotland than Ireland. 



Page 33, cus dhu = cof •out), i.e., black foot. 



Page 36, briddawn = t)|\At)An, a salmon, as if written 

 biAioD^n with a broad b. 



Page 37, mona mon diaoul = m'^riAm 6'n 'OMbxXt, ie., 

 *' my soul from the devil," a curse turned adroitly into a 

 blessing. 



Mortien Beg = m^itxcin t>eA^ = Little Martin. 



Page 41, Shawn a tra buoy = Se^n n^ cf^s' btii'6e. 



Page 56, Tiggim Tigue Thigien = UuiKe^tin ZAt>s 

 CAn65in. The m in the first word ought to be n. 

 Maxwell's ear played him false. 



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