A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'derives'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
derivesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327 2 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of derives in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
7 Da diminutive - kin derives fae Middle Dutch - kijn/-ken on page 42
is onyeen or onybody. Onyeen derives fae Aald on page 59
(Eng. 'food') derives fae Aald Norse matr 'food'. D on page 103

4 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
the decline derives from a rejection of the langu on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ae muckle surprise tae learn) derives fae the Scots and Gaelic leid
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
faur fae Embra, maist likely derives fae Creag an t-Sionnaich, ‘
places, Auchtermuchty in Fife derives fae the Gaelic wirds uachdar
2 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

@fairfaaye tweeted
f or annoyance with grace. It derives from the Old English ‘tholia(2020)
n” and “dailygan”. Gloamin derives from the Old English word gl?(2020)