Oldalképek
PDF
ePub

GAELIC ETYMOLOGY

OF THE

Languages of estern Europe

AND MORE ESPECIALLY OF

THE ENGLISH AND LOWLAND SCOTCH,

AND OF THEIR SLANG, CANT, AND COLLOQUIAL DIALECTS.

BY

CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF DENMARK.

66

Every word in human language has its pedigree."-THE DUKE OF SOMERSET.

"Without a considerable knowledge of Gaelic, no person can make any proficiency whatever in philology."
--DR. MURRAY, Late Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh.

,C LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY

N. TRÜBNER AND CO., LUDGATE HILL.

RABYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1878, July 29. Minot Sunal.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

ΤΟ

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE OF WALES,

DUKE OF ROTHESAY, EARL OF CARRICK, BARON RENFREW,

[blocks in formation]

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

The Names marked with (*) are those of Gentlemen deceased since the commencement of this Work.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. H.R.H. THE Duke of Edinburgh. H.R.H. PRINCE LEOPOLD.

THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON.
THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Edinburgh.
THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW's.
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, U.S.
THE GAELIC SOCIETY OF LONDON (2 copies).

Argyll, His Grace the Duke of (5 copies).
Athole, His Grace the Duke of.
Ainsworth, William Harrison, Esq.
Andrew, William Patrick, Esq.

Buccleuch, His Grace the Duke of (2 copies).
Bute, the Most Noble the Marquis of.
Bald, John, Esq., Wells, Jedburgh.
Ballantine, James, Esq., Edinburgh.
Barber, William, Esq., Reform Club.
Beaumont, James A., Esq. (2 copies).
Bennoch, Francis, Esq., F.S.A.
Blackie, John Stuart, Esq., Professor of
Greek, University of Edinburgh.
Blackwood, John, Esq, Edinburgh.
Blackwood, William, Esq., Edinburgh.
*Bosworth, the Rev. Dr. (Author of the
"Anglo-Saxon Dictionary").
Boult, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool.
Bourke, the Very Rev. Ulick J., Canon of
Tuam, and Principal of St. Jarlath's.
Boyd, John, Esq., St. John, New Brunswick
(2 copies).

Brown, James B., Esq., Selkirk.

Brown, Colin Rae, Esq., Oakleigh Park. Brown, Charles Herbert, Esq., Leach House, Colne, Lancashire.

*Burns, William, Esq., Glasgow. Burton, Walter, Esq.

Caird, J. F., Esq., Greenock.

Cameron, Donald, Esq., of Lochiel, M.P.
Campbell, Colin, Esq., Greenock.
Church, George Earle, Esq., C.E.
Cluny, Macpherson, of Cluny.

Derby, the Right Hon. the Earl of. Dufferin, Right Hon. the Earl of, Gov.-Gen. of Canada.

Dunmore, the Right Hon. the Earl of. Dallas, A. Graut, Esq., Dunain, Inver

ness.

Davies, D. P., Esq., Liverpool. Dewar, Captain James, Glasgow. Doyle, Andrew, Esq.

Edmonston and Co., Messrs., Edinburgh.
Elder, Alexander Lang, Esq.
Ellice, Edward, Esq., M.P.

Ellis, Joseph, Esq., Monks, Balcombe,
Sussex.

Evelyn, W. J., Esq., Wotton, Surrey.

Fellowes, F. P., Esq., Reform Club.
Ferguson, Robert, Esq., M.P.
Finlay, A. H., Esq., Greenock.
Finlay, Alex. S., Esq., Castle Toward,
Argyleshire.

Fleming, John, Esq.

Forbes, Dr. George, Delfur, Fochabers. Fraser, Thomas, Esq., Sheriff, Skye. Fraser, Donald, Esq., Reform Club.

Gallenga, Antonio, Esq., Athenæum Club. Gilbert, William, Esq., Reform Club.

Gillies, William, Esq., of Ardconnell, Oban. Godwin, George, Esq., F.S.A.

Grain, John Henry, Esq., Lewisham Hill. Grant, John, Esq., Cardiff.

Grant, Donald, Esq., Pencoed, South Wales.

« ElőzőTovább »