CATHAG ~ jackdaw

Entry: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/46

‘The jackdaw is a lot smaller than the rook and has a little grey in it; thievish, cocky in its way, smart, gangly in its movement, and often kept as a pet by children.’

#cathag #jackdaw #Gaelic

Cathag dhearg chasach. Chough.
1988 DASG Fieldwork Archive (South Uist)

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Full entry: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/46

CATHAG DHEARG-CHASACH
Cuideachd: CATHAG NAN CASAN DEARGA

Brath-bloga ùr: www.faclair.ac.uk/blog/379/gd

’S e a’ chathag dhearg-chasach (red-billed chough) a tha fon phrosbaig aig Tòmas anns a’ bhrath-bhloga ùr seo. Tha e a’ trusadh na fianais a tha againn ann an Gàidhlig air an eun ainneamh sa.

i will become elderly cathag bearing freshly baked catnip cookies and embarrassingly sapphic advice for anyone of those younguns that seek it

CATHAG ~ eun meadhanach mòr dubh is glas a tha càirdeach don fheannaig.

An t-inntreadh: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/46

#cathag #jackdaw

Ann an da-rìribh, is ionnan an dà eun seo – no, chan eil e soilleir dè an diofar a bha eatarra aig an àm. Faodaidh ‘cnàimheach’ a bhith a-mach air cathag no eun sam bith coltach ri feannag. Ann am Beurla Ghallta, tha e ‘Ka’ (kay) a’ ciallachadh ‘jackdaw’ no cathag.

Gu h-inntinneach, seo na tha aig Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair na bhriathrachan:

1741 Nuadhfhocloir Gaoidheilg & Beurla 74
Cnáimhfhiach A Jackdaw. Cathag A Kay.

In Scotland, our earliest attestation of ‘cathag’ was collected by Edward Lhuyd with Welsh spelling:

a1709 Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands 132
A Jack-daw. Kâk, A[rgyll], In[verness].

Mar a chithear ann an DSL, tha ‘Ka’ a’ dol air ais gu 1500, agus gu 1340 ann am Meadhan-Bheurla: dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/ka

An ann bhon aon tùs a tha ‘Ka’ agus ‘cathag’?