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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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purn
[‘u’ as in English ‘purr’]
,
pirn
[‘i’ as in English ‘hit’]
noun
a reel for thread
20-
.
etymology:
Scots; original form is
pirn
from
la15-
;
purn
form only attested in
20-
; attested by
BW
and
JS