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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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ainsel
,
ainself
noun
myself, oneself:
Now my mother was left wi the wee weans
[small children]
and she had to rear us all up her ainsel.
19-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
DW
; form
ainself
attested by
DB