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Use in varieties of Scots

etymology Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 1.5 7.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 13.3
Number of occurrences143 5 1 1 1 3
Number of authors9 3 2 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of etymology in Corpus

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Central

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
t’ — a gallusly speceefic etymology gien the ubeequity o gey an s
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
and that gies a clue tae its etymology. Originally, a gallus lad wad
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
rd come fae? Which definition/etymology is closest tae the use you ke (2020) twitter link

Doric

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
being ‘hard as Hinnersins’. Etymology of it(2020) search twitter

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n spot. Mak a list, check the etymology, bring the names tae life. Il (2020) twitter link
@LitCors @OMainnin Etymology word by word for the bairns. (2020) twitter link
ap, as name of the lime kiln. Etymology? Nae idea, wirkin on it! http (2021) twitter link
n as a Scots word, explaining etymology. But today I'm taking my own (2020) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
ans Heid seems to be the gory etymology (2020) twitter link

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
etymology w'ir no sure o. Hit startit b on page 102

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
whan A wur growin up. Fur the etymology o the sindry place names an b
1 matches

Ulster

@fairfaaye tweeted
nch enfondre, to be chilled. #etymology #ulsterscots https://t.co/Yu6(2020) search twitter
l). Confused??? #ulsterscots #etymology https://t.co/ApH0k3saPR(2020) search twitter
a verb meaning ‘to shock’. Etymology unconfirmed but possibly from(2020) search twitter