Names of farms/crofts ending in "Buie"

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:39 pm

Jean Jeanie wrote:Anyone know the translation for "Feith" (Don't know how to make the accent over the "e" on this keyboard!)

Concise Scots Dictionary has "a salmon net fixed on stakes and stretched into the bed of a river" this from the NE, so correct area.

Regards,
Sarah

eilthireach · Post by **eilthireach** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:57 pm

SarahND wrote:
Jean Jeanie wrote:Anyone know the translation for "Feith" (Don't know how to make the accent over the "e" on this keyboard!)
Concise Scots Dictionary has "a salmon net fixed on stakes and stretched into the bed of a river" this from the NE, so correct area.

Regards,
Sarah

Unfortunately, this is not relevant! Féith is a Gaelic word, not Scots, and means bog, quagmire, swamp, marsh ...

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:07 pm

Well

When I first discovered Faebuie, I thought it was such a lovely name and now I find it means "Yellow Bog"

I prefer Faebuie

Jean

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:09 pm

eilthireach wrote:Unfortunately, this is not relevant! Féith is a Gaelic word, not Scots, and means bog, quagmire, swamp, marsh ...

That sounds better, although I'll bet the words are related, given the water theme and the areal distribution. The dictionary says the origin is "unknown".

Regards,
Sarah

Post by **AndrewP** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:32 pm

Hi Jean,

Is your red text above correct in using the grave accent è or should it be an acute accent é. The meanings of Fèith and Féith are quite different.

Fèith - a calm stillness; a short respite or crisis of a disease
Fèith - a sinew, a tendon; a vein; a blood vessel

Féith - a bog, a fen, a morass

All the best,

AndrewP

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PS
è - <alt>0232 (numbers from number keypad only)
é - <alt>0233 (numbers from number keypad only)

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:38 pm

Hi Andrew

It is definitely a grave accent è

That sounds better "Yellow Calmness"

Cheers
Jean