قراءة كتاب An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals
AYSYAMENT, s. Used in the same sense with E. easement, as denoting assistance, accommodation.
Fr. aisement, commodum.
Stat. Rob. I.
AIT, oat or oaten.
V. Aits.
Douglas.
AITS, s. pl. Oats, S. Wild aits, bearded oat-grass, S. Avena fatua, Linn.
A. S. ata, ate, avena.
AITEN, adj. Oaten, S.
Ritson.
AITH, AYTHE, s. An oath.
V. Athe.
AITH, or AIFTLAND, s. That kind of land called infield, which is made to carry oats a second time after barley, and has received no dung. Ang.
Perhaps from A. S. aeft, iterum.
AITH-HENNES, s. pl. Apparently heath-hens, as being bred on the heath.
Skene.
AYSYAMENT, s.
V. Aisment.
AIZLE, s. A hot ember.
V. Eizel.
AKYN, adj. Oaken.
Douglas.
ALAGUST, s. Suspicion.
V. Allagust.
ALAIS, s. pl. Alleys.
Wallace.
ALAK,
Wallace.
V. Lak.
ALAMONTI, ALLAMOTTI, s. The storm finch, Procellaria pelagica, Linn. Orkn. The same with the Assilag of St Kilda.
Allamotti is the proper pronunciation.
Neill.
Ital. ala, a wing, and moto, motion.
ALANE, ALLANE, adj. Alone, S.
Wyntown.
Alem. alain, Germ. allein, alone; from all omnis, and ain, ein, unus.
ALANERLIE, adv.
V. Allanerly.
ALAREIT.
V. Lareit.
ALARS. Alars yet, apparently, the gate overspread with alder.
Palice Hon.
A. S. alr, Alem. ellra, the alder; Su. G. alar, of or belonging to the alder-tree.
ALAWE, adv. Downward, below.
V. Law, Lawe.
ALBLASTRIE, s. Apparently, the exercise of the cross-bow.
V. Awblaster.
ALCOMYE, s. Latten, a kind of mixed metal still used for spoons.
Hence, Accomie spunes, spoons made of alchymy, S. B.
Douglas.
From Fr. alquemie or O. E. alchymy.
ALD, ALDE, AULD, adj. Old, S. Yorks. O. E. ald, id.
Wyntown.
A. S. eald, Alem. alt, vetus; derived from A. S. eald-ian, to remain, to stay, to last, Alem. alten, to prolong.
To ALEGE, v. a. To absolve from allegiance.
Fr. alleg-er, id.
Wyntown.
ALEUIN, adj. Eleven.
Complaynt S.
ALGAIT, ALGATE, ALGATIS, adv.
1. Every way.
Douglas.
2. At all events, by all means.
Douglas.
O. E. all gate, R. Brunne; all gates, Chaucer. From all, and gait, or gatis, i. e. all ways.
ALHALE, ALHALELY, adv. Wholly, entirely.
Douglas.
From all, and hale, hail, whole.
ALIENARE, s. A stranger.
Douglas.
Lat. alien-us.
ALYA, ALLIA, ALLYA, ALLAY, s.
1. Alliance.
Wallace.
2. An ally.
Acts Ja. VI.
3. Sometimes used as a plural noun, signifying allies.
Bellenden.
Fr. allie, with a Saxon termination.
ALYAND, part. pr. Keeping close together.
Wallace.
Fr. alli-er, to join, to knit.
To ALYCHT, v. a. To enlighten.
Douglas.
A. S. alyht-an, illuminare; alyht-nysse, illuminatio.
ALIST. To come alist. To recover from faintness or decay, applied both to animals and vegetables; to recover from a swoon, S. B.
Ross.
Isl. lios, light; aliost, the dawn of day; at koma i liosi, to make manifest.
ALYTE, adv. A little.
V. Lite.
Lyndsay.