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Dawtie : ''darling child" is certainly the Gaelic delta used 

 for foster-child and godchild ; also for the chapel, in contra- 

 distinction to the Annat or Mother Church. 



Body : meaning person, seems to be the Gaelic bodach, an 

 old man. 



Brat : for a coarse working apron, is a word for a cloth, 

 still meaning a fla^ in Gaelic. 



Mart : a beast killed to salt for winter ; seems to be the 

 Gaelic mairt, commonly used for a cow. The word does not 

 seem to have originally any connection with Martinmas, 

 which the meaning would suggest. 



Brock : badger ; Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton. 

 Sxoup : a wooden vessel for wine, ale, or vv;ater, Stopan in 

 Gaelic ; but I am not certain it is not to be found elsewhere. 



Crack : chat, Gaelic cracaravhed. 



Crummie : for a cow, evidently meaning "crooked horn," 

 crom meaning bent in Gaelic and Welsh, as does cam also. 



Flourish : for fruit blossom, Gaelic flarich, flowers. 



Cess: rates, Gaelic m; however, cess is used in England. 



Cain : for rent in kind, Gaelic cain, rent or tribute. 



Mote : the mound which was the old place of assembly, 

 is probably from the Gaelic mote, spelt mod, a court of justice 

 or assembly of any kind. Motte is a hillock in French, and 

 a circle in Wales, a sod in Brittany, while in Devonshire a 

 moot means a large root of a tree. Moat, in England, has 

 come to mean the ditch out of which a rampart was digged ; 

 dyke exchanges meanings in the same way. The Saxon 

 "Gemote" meant met, the modern meeting. The Ward-Mote 

 goes on in London. 



Airt: point of the compass, same in Gaelic. 

 Craig : Scotch for cliff, Gaelic for roch. 

 Loch : for lake, Gaelic word ; Iwch in Welsh. 

 Linn : for a pool or waterfall, sometimes for a ravine ; 

 Gaelic word for lake. 



Caif : tame, Gaelic caomh, pro. cuve, gentle. 

 Bbaw: fine, Gaelic briagh. 



