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eean 1 pl. ein chick, fowl, poult a: as dy chooilley eean lurg e cheint Bible; 2 (of birds) young; 3 brat, cheeky child; 4 juvenile [O.Ir. én]
eean beg (n.) dicky-bird
eean ny h-oie owl: Ta mish kasly rish pellikan ayns yn 'asygh : as mar ae'n ny hyi ayns yn ynyd phaas. Psalm1610
fer marroo eean fowler: Ta nan anym er shaghny gy jaru mar aeyn, magh as ribbe yn fer maru aeyn : ta yn ribbe brist as ta shuinyn lifreit. Psalm1610
chicken (n.) feill chirkey; eean: The chicken is like its kind before there is down on its head - Ta'n eean myr e ghooie my vel clooie er e chione. JJK idiom
dicky-bird (n.) eean beg, eeanag
frosty (adj.) feayr; eean y ghob jiarg mooie: It's frosty today - Ta eean y ghob jiarg mooie jiu. DF idiom; rioeeagh: Frosty weather - Emshir rioeeagh. DF idiom
straggler (n.) eean shooyl, trudleyder
evil-doer (n.) drogh-eean; olkeyr
nestling (v.) clusaghey, clussaghey; (n.) eean idd; scollaghan
dwellings cummallyn: whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings - edyr eh ve dy eean ny dy vaagh, ayns veg jeh ny cummallyn eu Bible
on his head er e chione: The chicken is like his kind if there is down on his head - Ta'n eean myr e ghooie my vees clooie er e chione. DF idiom
owl (n.) hullad: And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow - As y hullad, as y shawk-oie, as y chooag Bible; eean ny h-oie
shell1 bleayst: The chicken is breaking the shell - Ta'n eean scolbey yn bleayst. DF idiom; bleaystan; coodagh; finneig; shlig; shliggan; bleaystaghey, bleaystaney, skilley
cage cage: Myr eean freilt ayns cage dy volley eeanlee elley, myr shen ta cree yn vooinjer chluicagh Apoc
cassan (=Ir. casan) 1 passage, path, pathway, sidewalk, thoroughfare a: Ta cassan ayn nagh nhione da eean erbee Bible; 2 See Cassan Cedar (in names) walk, footpath; 3 trajectory
clooie (f.) (on fruit) bloom; down, feather, plumage: Ta'n eean myr e ghooie my vees clooie er e chione. DF; fluff, fur, fuzz, pubes
coar (=Ir. cóir) (f.) 1 crane a: Myr eean coar, ny gollan-geayee Bible; 2 (for rope) twister; 3 (adj.) acquiescent, affable, approachable, decent, easy-going, fair-minded, indulgent, inoffensive, kindly, nice, obliging, over, easygoing: Dooinney coar DF; 4 benign; 5 civil [O.Ir. corr]
glen (=Ir. glan) 1 chaste, clean, cleanse, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, downright, emphatic, fair, fresh-coloured, hygienic, peremptory, pure, sheer, to a T, undefiled, unpolluted, liquidate a: ghow eh jeh dagh baagh glen, as jeh dagh eean glen Bible; 2 (of refusal) flat; 3 (of vision) unclouded; 4 nett
goayr bwoirryn pl. goair woirryn she goat: As dooyrt eh rish, Gow hood colbagh jeh three bleeaney dy eash, as goayr bwoirryn three bleeaney dy eash, as rea three bleeaney dy eash, as calmane turtle, as eean calmane. Bible
kickley tickle, tickling: Sheese lesh yn eean dy ghoaill y doo-oallee, Ren kickley as kickley lesh lurgaghyn toallee. Dhoor; titillate, titillation
peeikear pl. peeikeyryn, peeikearyn descrier, spy: Myr eean freilt ayns cage dy volley eeanlee elley, myr shen ta cree yn vooinjer chluicagh; as myr peeikear t'eh lhie cooyl-chlea son dty lhieggey. Apoc; spoilsport
abominable (adj.) dwoaiagh: How much more abominable and filthy is man - Cre-woad sloo dwoaiagh as neu-ghlen ta dooinney Bible; dwoaieagh; dwooiagh: or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing - ny baagh, ny rish neu-ghlennid dwooiagh erbee elley Bible; dwoaioil; eajee: that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs - nagh jean shiu cur-rish veg jeh ny cliaghtaghyn eajee; feohoil; feohdoil: And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable - As my vees eh er ny ee eddyr er y trass laa, te feohdoil Bible; feohdagh: ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl - cha jean shiu shiu-hene feohdagh liorish baagh ny eean Bible; neu-ghlen: Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing - Cha jean shiu neu-ghlen jiu hene lesh red snauee erbee Bible; oaiagh
down (n.) clooie: The chicken is like its kind before there is down on its head - Ta'n eean myr e ghooie my vel clooie er e chione. JJK idiom; branchlooie, clooie chayt, fynney; cloonagh; dreeym; dooagh; (adj.) neose: Down to recent times - Neose gys y traa t'ayn jiu. DF idiom; sheese: Down the river - Sheese yn awin. DF idiom; (static) heese: Her hair is down - Ta'n folt eck heese. DF idiom
from the east niar; veih’n niar: Calling a ravenous bird from the east - Geamagh er eean jollyssagh veih’n niar Bible For exaltation cometh neither from the east, nor from the west - Son cha vel stayd ard cheet veih’n niar, ny veih’n neear Bible; lesh y shar: as they journeyed from the east - myr ghow ad nyn yurnah lesh y shar Bible
hateful (adj.) dwoaieagh; feohdagh; feohdoil; dwoaiagh: living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another - baghey ayns goanlys as roon, dwoaiagh, as coyrt dwoaie yn derrey yeh da’n jeh elley Bible; eajee: and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird - as edd son dy chooilley eean neu-ghlen as eajee Bible
species (n.) dooghys, kynney, sorch; dooie: The bird is like his species if there's down on his head - Ta'n eean myr e ghooie my vees clooie er e chione. DF idiom; keint: Two trees of like species - Daa villey jeh keint cosoylagh. DF idiom
glenney (=Ir. glanadh) act of vindication, chip, clarify, clean, cleaner, clearance, discharge, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purge, purification, purify, rid, satisfaction, scale, scavenge, settlement, sink, weed, wipe; (honey) clarification; (as fowl) draw; (as metal) try out; cleaning; bathe: as glenney e chorp ayns ushtey Bible; cleanse: As nee eh glenney yn thie lesh fuill yn eean as lesh yn ushtey farrane Bible; glass
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