Letter A - Glossary of words in ‘The Northern Cottage and other poems’ by George Dugall
Author: George Dugall
Date: 1824
Source: ‘Glossary’ — an appendix with notes to The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland by George Dugall (Londonderry: William McCorkell, 1824)
Comments: George Dugall (c.1790-1855) lived most of his life at Portlough near Newtowncunningham in Donegal. His book of poems The Northern Cottage and other poems; written partly in the Dialect of the North of Ireland (sixteen of which were written in what he describes sometimes as ‘braid Scotch’ and sometimes as the ‘dialect of the North of Ireland’), also contains an extensive and separately compiled ‘Glossary’ of Ulster-Scots words. George Dugall describes this Glossary as “a tolerably correct analogical specimen of the language … worthy of the unprejudiced and philanthropic eye of research, [hoping that] the acute and erudite philologer will not despise the simple data”. Indeed Dugall’s poems (see Ulster-Scots Poetry 1800-1899) were “cast”, he says, in the scene of “that part of the North of Ireland” where the dialect “bears a strong affinity to that of Scotland”. His poems are even richer in Ulster-Scots vocabulary than the Glossary indicates, and so citations from his poetry have also been excerpted for the Academy’s Historical Dictionary (see Dictionary).
Doc. ref. no.: USLS/TB/Hist/1800-1899/009-a
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A’, all, every one
Abeen, above
Ae, one
Aff, off
Aff-leef, off-hand
Afiel, from home
Afore, before
Aft, oft
Aften, often
Aglee, awry, wrong
Ain, own
Airn, iron
Aith, oath
Aits, oats (nearly obsolete)
Aizle, hot cinder of wood
Alane, alone
Amaist, almost
Amang, among
An’, and
Ance, once
Ane, one
Anither, another
Aught, possession
Aul’, old
Aul’-farrant, old-fashioned, droll
Ava, at all
Awa, away
Awfu’, awful
Awkward, awkward
Awn, the rough filament or beard of barley
Awnie, abounding with awns
Awse, ashes
Ayont, beyond
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