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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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marlech
noun
a (brown) hare
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makken
etymology:
possibly from Scots Gaelic
meàrleach
‘thief’; attested by
DW
note:
All Gaelic words for the hare are avoidance terms.