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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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airt
noun
direction, point of the compass
16-
.
etymology:
Scots; origin obscure;
art
occurs in Middle English in 14
th
century, and in Scots in early 15
th
; compare Gaelic
aird
‘point of the compass’; attested by
BS in TDITA
,
JS
,
BW
,
SR
and in Shelta