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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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mearslaich
verb
go away, leave
20-
.
etymology:
origin obscure; this word has a Gaelic structure and may be connected to Irish and earlier Gaelic
meirtnigh
‘diminish, enfeeble; attested in Shelta and Beurla Reagaird; also collected by
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