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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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caineag
noun
a hen
20-
.
etymology:
possibly connected with Scots Gypsy
caunie ‘a hen’
with Scottish Gaelic diminutive
–ag
ending; attested in Beurla Reagaird; also collected by
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