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MANX BIRD-NAMES xlix 
Alt, brook, torrent. 
Ard, height. 
Awin, river. 
Balla, farmstead, division of 
land. 
Bane, vane, white. 
Bar, top, high ground. 
Leg, veg, small. 
Berry (Norse), cliff. 
Breck, vreck, spotted, pied. 
Broogh, brow, sandy or earthy 
bank. 
Buigh, vuigh, yellow. 
Burrow, strong place, fortress- 
like rock. 
Carn, carnane, cairn, height 
with a cairn. 
Carrick, rock. 
Clet (Norse), rock in the sea. 
Clogh, stone. 
Coowl, corner, nook. 
Creg, rock, crag. 
Cronk, hill. 
Curragh, fen. 
Dhoo, black. 
Dreem, back (of a hill), hill- 
ridge. 
Eary, high pasture-land, moor. 
Ellan, island. 
Ghaw (Norse), chasm, narrow 
creek, 
Glass, grey, green. 
Gob, point (lt. beak, snout). 
Keeil, church, chapel (often a 
ruinous site). 
Kione, head(land), 
Lag, lagg, laggan, hollow. 
Lheeah, grey. 
Lhergy, hillside, steep slope. 
Lhing, lhingey, pool (in a 
stream). 
Lough, loughan, lake, pond. 
Menagh, meanagh, middle. 
Moaney, turf-land. 
Moar, mooar, vooar, large. 
Mullagh, summit. 
Ootg (pr. ogh), cave. 
Rheast, rheeast, waste. 
hen, ridge. 
Rhennee, rhenny, ferny, fern- 
covered. 
Ruy, roy, red. 
Slieu, mountain. 
Stack (Norse), rock like a 
stack. 
Trave, shore, beach. 
Wick (Norse), bay, creek. 
Old Norse, so frequent in our place-names, and which 
must have been for several centuries in the Middle Ages the 
language of the dominant class in Man, cannot be shown to 
have left a trace in our bird-names. 
