GUERNSEY DIALECT NAMES. 523 



Dopaie. John Doree. 



Parmi les congres et les doraies. (Metivier). 

 Among the congers and John Dorees. 



Dpavan. Thomback Ray. 



I ve un dravan gros coum an pourpeis. (Metivier). 

 He sees a thornback as big as a porpoise. 

 GrOUnaPd. Gurnard. 

 Hau. Tope or White Hound. 



Nous veyait d'laids, maigres, hidaeux haus, 

 Et ses cousins les tcheus-roussiaux 

 Et I'dravan. {Metivier). 



One saw the ugly, lean, hideous shark and its cousins the dog-fish an d 

 the thornback. 



Hepan. Herring. 



Grailli coum un heran soret. {Metivier). 

 Broiled like a smoked herring. 

 Lanehon. Sand Eel. 



Quand j'allaime au fln d' la leune 

 A la peque au p'tit lanehon. {Metivier). 

 When we went by moonlight to fish for sand eels. 

 Liottin. Whiting. 



Hier au ser all tait si flere 

 Air avait mangi sen liottin. {Metivier). 

 Last evening she was so merry, she had eaten her whiting. 

 Loche. Rockling. 



Loche, alputre et vraquet dans I's herbiers 

 Jouent a ch't'heure. {Metivier). 

 Rockling, loach and little wrasse are now playing in the beds of grass 

 wrack. 



Lu. Whiting. 



Jadis ma bouane femme de grand'mere 



Acatait sen vrac ou sen lu. 

 Car les turbots n'la tentaient guere, 

 Dans la Grand' Rue, a quiq'pas d'u. (Metivier), 

 In the olden time my dear old grandmother bought her rockfish or 

 her whiting (for turbots hardly tempted her) at some doorstep in High 

 Street. 



Lubin. Basse. 



MaCPe or Maq'Pe. MackereL 



En airon-ju d'maq're temprun un vaillant hal. (Metivier). 

 Shall we not get a famous catch of early mackerel. 

 MaPtaine. Sculpin or Dragonet. 



Mouapue. Cod. 



Su la fouaille etalai la nou veyait la mouarue. (Metivier). 

 One saw the codfish spread out there upon the dry fern. 

 Mulet, gPis. Grey Mullet. 



Baillies-me I'turbot, la mouarue, 

 La sole et I'gris miilet. (Metivier). 

 Give me the turbot, cod, sole, and grey mullet. 

 Mulet, POUage. Surmullet. 



This fish is known in Guernsey as the Red Mullet, and is sold in the 

 market as such ; but the true Red Mullet does not occur in Channel 

 Island waters. 



Opfi. Garfish, also called Longnose or Greenbone. 

 PafO. Topknot. 



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