GUERNSEY DIALECT NAMES. 519 



EtOUPne. Starling. 



La bas I'etourne crie, nou n'ot dans les bissons 

 Que I'doiix suflle du vent. {Metivier). 

 Yonder the starling whistles, one hears only the soft whisper of the 

 wind in the bushes. 



Gap. Gander. 



L'long d'un douit, I'gar, convouayant s'n ouaie, 

 Couni un sultan, gabarrait, patufllant. {Metivier). 

 Along a brook the gander escorting his goose, like a sultan, marched 

 slowly, chattering. 



Gode or GodaPd. RazorbiU. 

 GPai've. Song Thrush. 



Pres du moulin nouz-ot la graive et I'mfile. (Metivier). 

 Close by the mill one hears the thrush and the blackbird. 

 Gpai've, Bllue. Fieldfare. 

 GPaive de banque. Probably the Hock Pipit. 

 Gpisette. Titlark. 



GPOSbee: GPObiaux. House Sparrow. 

 Metivier makes the j)lural Grosbecs : 



Et n'bllamais pas les grosbecs 

 Qu'ont dejunai su vos pels. 

 And do not blame the sparrows that have breakfasted on your peas. 

 Halcyon. Kingfisher. 



Oil I'halcyon, s'n aile toute verte et bllue, 

 Pu vif que I'trait, s'cllungeait dans sen vivier. (Metivier). 

 Where the kingfisher, with wing all green and blue, more rapid than 

 a shot, plunged into his pool. 



Han'ton. Dnckling. 



Metivier quotes a proverb : Mouailli coum un han'ton (as wet as a 

 duckling) . 



HePOn. Heron. 



Quand tu ve un heron, dis au paure qu'il apie sa maison. (Proverb). 



When you see a heron tell the poor man to prop up his house (be 

 cause a storm is coming). 



HiPOndelle. Swallow. 



Sous not' vier fait la prumiere hirondelle 

 En suflliant trache un racouain pour sen nic. (Corbet). 

 Beneath our old thatched roof the first swallow seeks in twittering a 

 cranny for its nest. 



HouedPe or Ouaidpe. Skylark. 



An obsolete word now only used in the expression un nialiii liouedre, 



signifying a cunning fellow, a sharper. Metivier spells the word both 



ways. 

 HublOt or Ublot. Great Black -backed Gull. 



Oil I'hublot dort il y a des fieilles, 

 Dans I'creux d'la falaise illo-bas. (Metivier). 

 There are some leaves where the great gull sleeps in the hollow of 

 the cliff down there. 



HucaPt. Hooper or Whistling Swan. 



M'veyous buttai, suflliant coum un hucart? (Metivier). 

 Do you see me standing, whistling like a hooper? 

 Huppe. Hoopoe. 

 Jai or GeaL Missel Thrush. 



Quand nouz-ot chantair la graive et le geai. (Metivier), 

 When one hears the song thrush and the missel thrush singing. 



