162 Gaelic Language of the South of Scotland. 



Bannock : Gaelic bonnach, from bonn, flat. 



Bonnet : honaid in Gaelic, may be from the same, but the 

 old Scotch bonnet was not necessarily flat. 



The French bonnet may be a Celtic word, though there are 

 not very many remaining in French which are not Oelto-Italic 

 words common to Latin. 



Stank: a ditch with stagnant water — Gaelic stang. 



Cruive : for an enclosure or a salmon-trap, probably refers 

 to the wood it is made of, for the word, spelt craobh, is 

 Gaelic for a tree. 



Dub : the Scotch word for puddle, sometimes for a pool in 

 a river, is an old Celtic word for river. 



Geens : for wild cherries is the Gaelic gingis ; garden 

 cherries are sireis. Geens, with the spelling guignes, is used 

 for wild cherries in French also. It seems essentially a Gaelic 

 and not a Cymric word, for the word used in Brittany is quite 

 different, and geens is not an English word. 



Grieve : for a farm bailiff, Gaelic word for factor, or more 

 literally actor. The likeness to the Saxon gerefn and English 

 reeve seems to be accidental. 



Bothy : for a workmen's barrack, or a shed for calves, is, 

 of course, the same word as the English booth, but is apparently 

 a Celtic one. Bod, in Welsh names, is supposed to have 

 meant the house of the chief ; and in Northumbei-land bottle 

 means the house of the landlord. A both, pronounced bo, is 

 a dry stone herding hut in the Highlands. 



Tee : for the starting point at golf, and the goal at curling ; 

 is probably the Gaelic tigh house, or rather, perhaps, the 

 Welsh ty, pronounced tee. Tigh is sounded more like tie. 



Cadie : formerly a professional messenger, now usually an 

 attendant at golf; in common with the English cad, I have 

 no doubt is a degraded Celtic word for warrior ! Cad and 

 Cath mean battle in Welsh and Gaelic. Conan is called Cath 

 Conan in the West Highland Tales, and this use of the word 

 would explain the Oat Stanes, of which there are at least two 

 known. The present Gaelic word for warrior is ceathairnach^ 

 caterau. 



