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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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paunie-col
,
pauni-kol
noun
a sailor
19
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etymology:
pani
‘water’ + second element is possibly a variant of Scots
cowl
‘a man, a fellow’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants; form
pauni kol
also attested in Shelta