[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
ga, gaa, gaw I, 420, (Child #46 A) 9, 10; 421, 9, 10; 423, 6, 7; V, 216, 9, 10: gall.
ga, gaa I, 146, (Child #11 B) 5; V, 166, (Child #294 A) 8; 221, 16; 227, 6; 247, 3; 278, 25: go. See gang, gae.
ga, gaa IV, 513 a, 4; V, 221, 14; 242 a, 8; 268, 23: gave.
gab n., I, 302, B (Child #33 B) 12: 422, 13: mouth.
gab v., II, 149, (Child #68 D) (Child #68 E) 17: prate.
gab n., I, 277 f.: joke, sportive brag.
gabber reel I, 217, (Child #19 A) 8, 13: evidently a sprightly air. The root may be Icelandic gabb,. mockery. Perhaps simply gabber, jabber.
gaberlunyie V, 115 f., (Child #279 app) 6-10; 119, 8, 9: beggar's wallet.
gad, gaud I, 342, (Child #39 A) 33; 344, 32; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III, 505, 21: bar.
gad, gade IV, 493 f., 13, 26: went.
gaddie IV, 273, (Child #228 C) (Child #228 D) 1 = gaudie: showy, dashing.
gae, gai, gay, ga, gaa, gee, gie I, 69, (Child #5 A) 49, 62; 71, 39, 50; II, 304, (Child #90 A) 17; 468, 14; V, 166, (Child #294 A) 7; 278, 24: go. pret. gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gied, gid, ged, good, gude. p.p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed. pres. p. gain, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawen, etc. See gang.
gae, gang, go down IV, 12, C (Child #191 C) 6, 7; 518, 2: be hanged.
gae IV, 493 f., 23, 32: give.
gae pret. of gie, I, 69, (Child #5 A) 55-58, 68; 71, 45-47; 75, 42; 108, 15: gave.
gae, gay, gey adv., V, 266, 9: (gay) pretty, rather.
gaed, gade, gad, gaid pret. of gae, go, I, 102, D (Child #7 D) 4; 103, E 3; 131, G 10; 439, 14, 15; II, 140, (Child #67 B) (Child #67 C) 17, 18; III, 453, (Child #182 A) (Child #182 B) 10; IV, 395, (Child #250 C) (Child #250 D) 6; 494, 26; V, 117, (Child #280 A) (Child #280 B) 11; 238, 27; 274 b, 6; 278, 24.
gaed p.p. II, 70, (Child #62 A) 21; III, 473, so: gone.
gaen, gain, gane p.p. of gae, I, 70, (Child #5 A) (Child #5 B) 19; 108, 12; II, 468 f., (Child #110 F) 15, 18, 22; IV, 507, 2; V, 237, 5: gone.
gaen, gain p.p. of gie, gae, give, I, 469, (Child #53 D) (Child #53 E) 23 (gaen the table, given a knock); III, 271, (Child #157 E) (Child #157 F) 13; V, 183, (Child #304 A) 34. So perhaps II, 212, (Child #75 I) 15; cf. gain, fifth word below, gaeng. See gang.
gae-through-land IV, 428, (Child #260 B) 13: vagrant.
gai See gae.
gaid See gaed.
gain See gaen.
gain, gaine, gaing, gan, gaen, gane, gaun, gawn, gawen pres. p. of gae, ga, go. gain, etc., I, 466, (Child #53 B) (Child #53 C) 15; II, 151, H (Child #68 H) 2, 4; IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 8; V, 247, 15; 256, 6. gan, etc., II, 144, (Child #68 A) 12; IV, 210, (Child #218 A) 3; 507, 2.
gain II, 212, (Child #75 I) 15, ye's gain as much at mine: will get, receive. (But will (have) given, dealt, is perhaps possible.)
gain (him at the law), IV, 286, (Child #231 B) (Child #231 C) 3: Icel. gegna, to proceed against?
gain, gane (Icel. gegna, to suit, be meet), II, 25, (Child #58 F) (Child #58 G) 8; 26, 11 (with ellipsis of will): serve, suffice. II, 369, (Child #97 A) (Child #97 B) 15: suit my case.
gaing See gain, pres. p.
gair pay meat and gair, V, 268, 27: gear, clothes an arms? or money (a variation of pay meat and fee)?
gair (of clothes). See gare.
gait III, 266 b; 272, 5; IV, 265, A b 10: way, road. See gate.
galerie V, 140, f 1, 5: for gallaly, galley (doubtful form).
Galiard III, 459 f., (Child #184 A) 1, 4, etc.: sobriquet of a freebooter of a gay (perhaps dissipated) character.
galla See gallowe-tree.
gallage V, 247, 20: gallows.
gallaly, galalie V, 136 f., (Child #286 A) 1-3, etc.; 141, d 1: galley, prolonged for metrical convenience.
gallan, gellant, gillan IV, 260, (Child #226 D) 4; 315 f., 1, 4-7, 18: gallant, gayly or finely dressed.
gallio V, 141, 2, 3, etc. = galley O.
gallowe sing. (like A.S. galga), a gallowe, III, 92, (Child #118 A) 18. Cf. gallows.
gallows the highest, I, 150, (Child #11 I) (Child #11 J) (Child #11 K) 13: one elevated above a triangular framework, for special offenders; der hochste Galgen; see Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch, Galgen, column 1168 (?). Perhaps simply the highest that is to be had.
gallows-pin See pin.
gallow-tree (A.S. galgtréow; O. Eng. galwetre), III, 24, (Child #116 A) 43; 180, 17; 358, 71; 368, 10. gallou-, gallage-, galla-tree, gallow-pine, V, 247, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24.
gam game.
game had god game, V, 80, (Child #273 app) 46, 47: sport, amusement.
gamene I, 328, 52: game, sport.
gamon II, 59, (Child #61 A) 25: gamen, amuse himself.
gan, gane See gain, pres. p.
gan, gon with infinitive: began, did.
gane II, 26, (Child #58 G) (Child #58 H) 11: serve, suffice. See gain.
gane p.p. of gae, go. See gaen.
gane III, 281, (Child #158 C) 14: p.p. of gae, give. See gaen.
gane frae IV, 378, (Child #245 A) (Child #245 B) 3: gone ahead of, left behind.
gang, gange, gaeng, gieng I, 55, A (Child #4 A) 5; 57, 4; 68 f., 21, 37, 46; 75, 36, 39; 217, 16; II, 175, (Child #72 A) (Child #72 B) 13; 468 f., 13, 14, 38, 39; III, 75, (Child #117 A) 397; V, 16, (Child #267 B) 2, 5: go, walk. pret. yede, yeede, yeed, yed, jede, yode, yod, youd. p.p. gaen, gain, gane, gaed, gade, gad, gaid, gude, good. inf. also, gon, gone. p.p. ganged: III, 362, 102. See gae.
gang, gae, go down IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 9, 12; 12, C 6, 7; 518, 2: like the Scottish be put down, be hanged.
gantrees II, 369, (Child #97 A) (Child #97 B) 11; 370, 11: barrel-stands.
gar, gaur I, 100, (Child #7 A) (Child #7 B) 8; 127, 15; 130, 8; 397, D 9, 11, 13; II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 30, 31; 153, 16; 358, 17, 22-24: (Icel. göra) make do, cause, as auxiliary, gar lay, I, 5, D (Child #1 D) 1: do lay, lay. So II, 106, (Child #64 B) (Child #64 C) 11; 107, 19; 216, 3, 4.
garded III, 117, (Child #122 A) 16: looked at.
gare, gair, gore properly, a triangular piece of cloth inserted in a garment to give width at that part; in Old English often coat or gown, low down by his (her) gare is a frequently recurring expression which may be taken literally, down by that part of a garment where the gore would be = low by his knee, II, 197, 18. In, your ain hand sewed the gare (of a shirt), II, 379, (Child #99 A) 13; 389, 5; 395, 12 (following ain hand sewed the sleeve), gare in the limited sense seems hardly important enough, and perhaps is to be understood side: cf. rive it (sark) frae gore to gore, gair by gair, I, 439, (Child #49 B) (Child #49 C) 4; 440, 5, 7; 441, 6, 7; 442, 5, 6; II, 294, (Child #88 D) (Child #88 E) 31, 32. So also in, frae breast to gare, I, 438, B (Child #49 B) 4, probably, though the limited sense would answer. So, riven him frae gair to gair, IV, 416, (Child #256 A) 17; the brown bridge pat her hand in att Anne's left gare, V, 224, 20. penknife, sword, brand, down by (below) his (her) gare, I, 451, (Child #52 A) (Child #52 B) 9; II, 98, (Child #63 J) 40; 144, 6; 154, 11; 172, 34; IV, 465, 38. keys hung leugh down by her gair, IV, 465, 34. she hung 't (cup of wine) low down by her gare, II, 369, (Child #97 A) (Child #97 B) 10 (recklessly and absurdly; the cup is in her hand in the next stanza). In, frae my sark ye shear a gare, I, 388, A (Child #42 A) 8, 9, B 6, gare must be a strip large enough to make a bandage for the head.
ȝare III, 98, (Child #119 A) 24: ready.
garl II, 129, (Child #66 A) 18; V, 223 a, No 66, 18: gravel (suspicious word).
garlande III, 93, (Child #118 A) 31; rose-garlonde, III, 75, (Child #117 A) 398: a circular wreath, apparently hung upon a wand or rod. In III, 93, (Child #118 A) 31, this can be nothing more than an extemporized circlet of twigs.
garlings II, 366, (Child #96 G) 24: garlands.
garmarcie, garmercy III, 33, 130; 81, 34: gramercy.
garned the bride she garned round about, IV, 410, (Child #253 A) 23, is a misprint of Buchan's for gazed, which stands in the original Manuscript.
garrett III, 332, (Child #166 A) 16: watch-tower, look-out.
gars, garse IV, 221, (Child #221 C) (Child #221 D) 11; 467, 7: grass.
gartan, garten, gartin IV, 169, (Child #214 F) (Child #214 G) 10; 170, H 6; 175, M 8; 176, N 14, P 2; 490, 12: garter. (Gael, gairtein.)
garthes girths.
gast guest.
gate, gait, get I, 225, (Child #20 K) (Child #20 L) (Child #20 M) 8; II, 311 f., (Child #91 A) 2, 15, 21; 402, 10; III, 92, (Child #118 A) 11; 477 f., 11, 15 (ford); 480, 24; IV, 3, (Child #189 A) 21; V, 99, C (Child #275 C) 4: way, road, water-gate, V, 250, 12: round by the water, in this gate, II, 73, (Child #62 C) 26: in such a way or condition, to the gate (get) has gain, IV, 493, 5; V, 237, 5: has gone away, tuke the gate, II, 30, (Child #58 K) (Child #58 L) 7; IV, 392, (Child #249 A) 9: started, departed.
gaucy IV, 271, B (Child #228 B) 1; V, 152, 3: lusty, jolly.
gaud See gad.
gaudie, gaudy, gawdie IV, 273, (Child #228 C) (Child #228 D) 12, 13, of speech: with a stately or pompous air. 274, D 19; 297, 13: showy, conspicuous. 274, B 1: dashing, gaudy locks, 285, 10, 19: bright-colored. 356, B 1: ostentatious.
gaule I, 272, (Child #29 A) 11: of the color of gall; or gules, red.
gaun, gawn, gawen I, 22, A (Child #3 A) 1, B 1; III, 473, (Child #186 A) 21-24; 479, 8; IV, 261, (Child #226 D) (Child #226 E) 8; 511 a, 6; 513 a, 3: going.
gaunt IV, 20, (Child #192 C) (Child #192 D) 12: yawn.
gaur, gar I, 73, (Child #5 C) 36; IV, 226, (Child #221 G) (Child #221 H) 11: make.
gavellock, gavlock III, 470 b; 493, 10: iron lever.
gavil-post II, 227 a: gable-post.
gaw See ga.
gawdie See gaudie.
gawen, gawn See ga, and gaun.
gay See gae.
gay, gae, gey adv., II, 184, (Child #73 B) 16; IV, 271, (Child #228 A) (Child #228 B) 9; 329, c 20; V, 266, 9: pretty, rather.
gaze IV, 313, (Child #235 A) (Child #235 B) 10: gauze.
ge ye.
ge give. See gie.
gear, geare, geere, geir, gier I, 411, (Child #45 A) 5; II, 182, (Child #73 A) 5; 184, 9; 185, 38; III, 440, (Child #179 A) 12; 459, 3; IV, 6 f., (Child #190 A) 5, 19, 29; 469, 10; V, 170, (Child #297 A) 3, 4: goods, property, often cattle, silken gear, I, 145, (Child #11 A) 22: clothes. III, 440, (Child #179 A) 7, 18, 19; 446 b: fighting equipments, the less gear and the mair, III, 8, (Child #114 F) (Child #114 G) 23: smaller game and greater, pay meat an gair, V, 268, 27: clothes and arms? or money? III, 341, (Child #167 A) 47; 404, 1; IV, 505, 51; 506, 66: business, affair.
geat See get.
gecks gien the, II, 105 f., (Child #64 B) 20, 21: made a fool of. Geck in German, the northern languages and English, fool; in Scottish, according to Jainieson, "sign of derision, gibe, cheat." See gowk.
gee give. See gie.
gee, gie IV, 508, 2; V, 238, 22: go. pret. gied, gid, ged. See gae.
geere See gear.
geet IV, 494, 37: get, progeny, child.
geid pret. of gie, give, II, 277, A (Child #84 A) 8. See gied.
gein p.p. of gie, IV, 316, (Child #235 D) 18.
geir See gear.
gell V, 221, 20 (unnecessarily changed to kell): congeal, freeze. (Aberdonian.)
gellant gallant. See gallan.
gen V, 247, 10: given.
gen gen Pasche, II, 146, (Child #68 B) 9: against, for, Easter.
general with the, III, 176, (Child #139 A) 2: people in general (in public).
genty I, 421, (Child #46 B) 10: elegant of form or dress, but here refers to gentleness of disposition.
gep, gip III, 138, (Child #126 A) 11; 140, d 11 = gup, go up, get up (properly, a call to a horse), marry gep, interjection of contempt = marry, come up.
gereamarsey III, 111, (Child #121 A) 37: gramercy.
gerss I, 450, (Child #52 A) 5; II, 248, (Child #81 C) (Child #81 D) 9, 15; 464, 8, 10: grass.
get IV, 493, 5: gate, road (to the get he's gane, has gone away). See gate.
get, gett, geat II, 470, (Child #110 F) 56-8; V, 238, 13, 24: progeny, brat.
getterne I, 328, 49: a stringed instrument.
geve give. See gie.
gey adv. gey sad, II, 184, (Child #73 B) 15, 16: pretty, rather. See gay.
ghosting I, 284, (Child #30 A) 17, 18: guesting, lodging.
gie go. See gae.
gie, gi, ge, gee, gae, geve give, gie, I, 71, (Child #5 B) 55, 56; 74, 76, 77; 206, 26, 30; 207, 30. gi, I, 68 f., (Child #5 A) 26, 69, 70; IV, 493, 21. ge, gee, IV, 222, (Child #221 D) (Child #221 E) 19; 493, 15; V, 228, 10; 248, 4, 5, 21, 22. pret. gae, ga, gaa, gaed, geed, geid, gied. p.p. gin, gine, geen, gein, gien, gen, gane, gaen. geve on (like take) = strike, III, 127, (Child #123 app) 53. gien, II, 232, (Child #77 D) (Child #77 E) 13: struck.
gied, gid, ged pret. of gae, gie, go, I, 74, (Child #5 C) (Child #5 D) 3; 80, 5; 310, 10, 12, 14; II, 75, (Child #62 E) (Child #62 F) 11; 357, 7; III, 434, (Child #178 D) (Child #178 E) 27.
gied, geed, geid pret. of gie, give, I, 79 f., (Child #5 F) (Child #5 G) 24, 28; 439, 3; II, 408 f., (Child #101 A) (Child #101 B) 3, 4; IV, 512 b, 8.
gien, gine, gin, gein, geen, gen p.p. of gie, give: I, 100, (Child #7 A) (Child #7 B) 26; 467, 25; IV, 316, (Child #235 D) 18; 509 a, 13; 510, 16; 513, 12; V, 215, 13; 219, 23; 224, 20; 229, 30; 247, 10; 306 b, 3. V, 219, 23: given (a blow) to.
gieng II, 61, (Child #61 app) 3: gang, go.
gier See gear.
gif, giff = if, I, 70, (Child #5 A) (Child #5 B) 16; II, 21 B (Child #58 B) 10; 28, 3; III, 285, 22.
giff-gaff I, 21 b, (Child #2 L) 14: give and take, tit for tat.
gile III, 482, (Child #187 C) 11: jail.
gill a steep, narrow glen.
gillan V, 272 b, 1: gallant. See gallan.
Gilliecrankie be a, IV, 268, (Child #227 A) 22: a Gilliecrankie woman, live in Gillecrankie (see 20), be a Highlander, g reads, hae a Killycrankie, that is, a domestic battle, or row.
gillore III, 136, (Child #125 A) 34: galore, in plenty.
gilt III, 370, (Child #169 C) 10: money.
gimp I, 387, (Child #42 A) 1; II, 220, (Child #76 D) 1, 3: jimp, slender.
gin, gine, ginne V, 125, (Child #281 D) 9: a contrivance, specially, the apparatus for fastening a door, I, 107, (Child #8 A) 4; II, 241, (Child #80 A) 23; III, 492, (Child #188 C) (Child #188 D) 6; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; 446, b 3, 4; door and window, IV, 480, 4, 5. chappit (knocked) at the gin, I, 465, (Child #53 B) 11; IV, 445 f., 3, 4. lift the gin (that is the lever for raising the latch), II, 158, (Child #69 A) 4; 165, 4, 7, altered to pin, II, 158, (Child #69 A) 4, in the margin of the Manuscript, and pin stands in 7 of the same piece. Otherwise, chin.
gin I, 108, B (Child #8 B) 3, like the gin: corrupt, compare A 4.
gin II, 23, E (Child #58 E) 8; 271, 34; 286, 3; IV, 412, (Child #254 A) (Child #254 B) 11; 485, 15; V, 243, 17: (of time) against, towards. II, 313, (Child #91 B) 14; IV, 138, M (Child #209 M) 1; 166, C 6; 392, 12: by the time that.
gin conj., I, 5, C (Child #1 C) 8; 68, 21, 22; 70, 15; 72, 24; 310, 4, 5; 466, 4, 5; 468, 5, 8; 478, 4, 6, 8-10: if.
gin, gine given.
gine, ginne n. See gin.
gip See gep.
gird III, 35, (Child #116 app) 19: blow, stroke.
girded out, guirded V, 76, (Child #273 A) 23; 82, 37: cracked, let.
girdle I, 403, (Child #44 A) 12: griddle.
girds II, 70, (Child #62 A) 27; IV, 481, 6: hoops.
girn I, 344, (Child #39 B) 31: (of a hound) snarl. IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 18: (of men hanged) grin.
girth was the gold-twist to be III, 490, (Child #188 B) 16, see 486 b. girth should probably be graith, but admitting this, the sense is not clear, and further corruption may be suspected. We may understand, perhaps, that after the rescue the mare was to have a caparison of gilded chains. Or we may read, her graith was used the gold-twist to be.
gitter V, 243, 16: gutter.
giue II, 442, (Child #109 A) 7, 10: = gif, if.
gives II, 448, (Child #109 B) 26: misgives.
gladdyuge III, 70, (Child #117 A) 297: gladdening (cheering in later texts).
glaive, glaue IV, 491, 11; V, 235, 32: sword. See glaue.
glamer, glamour, glamourie, glaumry IV, 65, (Child #200 A) 2; 66, 2; 67, 2; 68, D 2, E 2; 70, F 2, etc.; 367, 8; V, 301, No 200: a charm deluding the eye. IV, 310, (Child #234 B) 14: glitter, gleam.
glance III, 394, K (Child #173 K) 6; 397, 5; IV, 508 a, 8: shine.
glaned IV, 406, (Child #252 C) 14: (giant, from glent) glanced, shone.
glar I, 494, 18: mire.
glashet I,434, (Child #48 A) 36: (O. French, glacer, glachier) darted, flashed.
glasse III, 340, (Child #167 A) 32; 344, 30, 31; 349, 31; IV, 504, 36: lantern, ship-light.
glaue, glaive III, 105, (Child #120 A) 20: (in this place) a cutting weapon fixed to the end of a pole. See glaive.
glaumry See glamer.
glazen of glass.
gleat (Icelandic glit), I, 100, (Child #7 A) (Child #7 B) 28: glitter.
glede, gleed, gleede I, 285, (Child #30 A) 28; 287, 67; 342, 34; III, 308, (Child #162 A) 14; IV, 379, (Child #245 B) (Child #245 C) 14; V, 184, (Child #304 A) 42: glowing coal. II, 115, (Child #65 A) (Child #65 B) 29; 140, 18; V, 27, (Child #268 A) 46: fire. See glyde.
glee (= glue), I, 68, (Child #5 A) 9, 12: glove.
gleid, gleyd, gleyed IV, 56, B (Child #199 B) 3; 58, 3, 4, 9, 10; 135, 23, 24: squint-eyed.
glen set her on the glen, IV, 284, (Child #231 A) (Child #231 B) 25; take her to the glen, 286, 29; set her to the glen, 287, 18: because, the roadways running usually through glens, this amounts to a public exposure.
glent I, 105 a, 28: glitter, glancing, wi a glent, II, 119, (Child #65 D) (Child #65 E) 19; IV, 467, 14: in a flash, a moment (otherwise, in a glent).
glent III, 307, (Child #162 A) 6: glanced, went (perhaps, darted).
gleyd, gleyed See gleid.
glided I, 333, (Child #38 G) 3: glittered, glinted.
glintin IV, 450 b, 6: gleaming, flashing.
glister IV, 510, 5: shine.
gloamin III, 319, (Child #163 A) (Child #163 B) 23: twilight, evening.
gloe III, 455, (Child #182 C) (Child #182 D) (Child #182 E) 8, 9, 11: glove. See glee.
gloom IV, 94, (Child #204 A) (Child #204 B) 9: frown, morose look.
gloom I, 302, A (Child #33 A) 11, B 9; 303, C 6; IV, 337, g before 20: frown, look sullen.
glore II, 319, (Child #92 B) 13: glory.
glove cut my glove, etc., II, 105, (Child #64 B) 18: lovers were wont to cut a glove and each take a part. S.W. will take in his hand the half of his glove which represents Janet and dance for two. T. Davidson, played at the glove, III, 448, (Child #181 A) (Child #181 B) 5: some game for braw gallants, unexplained; possibly, spearing a glove when riding rapidly.
glove tee See tee.
glowd, glowde II, 454 f., (Child #109 C) 54, 58: glided.
glowred IV, 429, a 15: stared.
glue II, 147, (Child #68 C) 12: glove. See glee, gloe.
glyde II, 375, (Child #98 C) 19: spark. See glede.
go, goe, goo, gone III, 64, (Child #117 A) 160; 71, 302; 77, 429; 105, 22; 432, 19: walk, go boun away, IV, 224, (Child #221 F) 15, 16: go, depart, go down, IV, 13, (Child #191 C) (Child #191 D) 2, 3; 14, 2: be hanged (cf. gae down), goe vppon his death, V, 53, (Child #271 A) 99: pass upon the question of.
gockies II, 470, (Child #110 F) 48: deep wooden dishes.
god, godde III, 113, (Child #121 A) 72, 78, 80: property, goods.
God omitted, O save and you may see, III, 181, (Child #140 B) 19; 184, 16.
God II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 51; III, 29, (Child #116 A) 146; 59, 62, 63; 61, 92; 68, 240; 75, 391; 101, 90; 105, 23 (mood, wrongly for my God?); 359, 103; 444, 16, 17: the second person in the Trinity.
God a marsey, God amercy, God have mercy III, 111, (Child #121 A) 39; 138, 22; 149, 41; 445, 30; V, 76, (Child #273 A) 10; 77, 39; 80, 51, 53; 81, 13; 83, 55: gramercy (not Dieu merci, thank God, which meaning, unlikely in all, is impossible in most of the cases).
God beffore V, 79, (Child #273 app) 19: before God (attestation). Cf. for God. But perhaps God before (and God before) is always to be distinguished from before God, and to be understood as, God my guide or helper; which sense seems to be required iu Shakspere's Henry V, I, 11, 307, III, VI, 165(Child #135 A) ; Percy Manuscript, Hales & Furnivall, III, 30, v. 304, 528, v. 57. [So, and God toforn, in Chaucer, Troilus, I, 1049; II, 431. Cf. also King Edw. and the Shepherd, Hartshorne, Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 47; Peniworth of Witte, Englische Studien, VII, 116, v. (Child #65 B) 287; Weddynge of Syr Gawen, v. 640, Madden, p. 298; etc.]
God's peny V, 14, (Child #267 A) 5; 15, 27: an earnest-penny, to bind a bargain.
Godzounds V, 93, (Child #274 B) 4, 8, 12, etc.: God's wounds.
gogled III, 179, (Child #140 A) 7: joggled, waggled.
golden-knobbed (gloves), II, 133, (Child #66 D) (Child #66 E) 6: ornamented with golden balls or tassels, (siller-knapped, 134, 8, 13.)
golett of þe hode, III, 99, (Child #119 A) 49: throat, part covering the throat.
gon, gone infin. of go, III, 24, (Child #116 A) 45; 35, 32; 66, 204; 67, 223; 71, 316; 74, 363; 77, 435; 111, 28.
gon gon gae, I, 333, (Child #38 G) 3: did go.
gone subj. of gon, go, III, 67, (Child #117 A) 219.
good, gude pret. of go, III, 464, (Child #185 A) 4; V, 153, 1.
Good V, 199 b, 20: God.
Good-ben III, 267, A (Child #157 A) 10. If ben is to stand, it must be benison abridged. Good benison be here, quoth he, makes a satisfactory line. Compare B 9, D 9.
good-brother IV, 168, (Child #214 D) (Child #214 E) 9: brother-in-law.
good b'w'ye III, 134, (Child #125 A) 6: God be wi you, good-bye.
goodman III, 274, (Child #157 G) (Child #157 H) 33, 35; V, 91, (Child #274 A) 1, 5, etc.; 98, 2, 3: master of a house.
good-mother IV, 412, (Child #254 A) (Child #254 B) 19: mother-in-law.
good-son IV, 283, (Child #231 A) 10: son-in-law.
goodwife III, 274, (Child #157 G) (Child #157 H) 33, 35; V, 91, (Child #274 A) 2, 6, etc.; 98, l, 2: mistress of a house, housewife.
goold V, 296 a: gold.
gorgett III, 422, (Child #177 A) 75: defense for the neck, here a part of a jack.
gorgett II, 45, (Child #59 A) 32: a neckerchief. ("Nearly = wimple in Edward I.'s time; in 15th century, neckerchief.")
gorney journey.
goud = gan, did, IV, 20, (Child #192 C) (Child #192 D) 12, 13. (Cf. begoud = began.)
goud, gowd n. and adj., I, 127, (Child #10 B) 12; 135, 9-12; 351, 35; 429, 28: gold.
gouden, gowden I, 127, (Child #10 B) 21, 22; 145, 23: golden.
goudie, goudy V, 110, (Child #279 A) 7; 267 b, 10; 268, 19: golden, yellow (locks).
goun-teall See gown-tail.
goupen I, 356, D b after 23: hollow of the hand.
gouernor I, 286, (Child #30 A) 40: director, guardian.
go wans I, 55, A (Child #4 A) 1: daisies.
gowany I, 315, (Child #35 A) 12: covered with daisies.
gowd See goud.
gowk II, 111, (Child #64 G) 12: (cuckoo), fool, gien me the gowk, made a fool of me. See geeks.
gown of green gien her a, II, 472, (Child #110 G) (Child #110 H) 2: defloured. got on the, I, 350, (Child #39 G) 11: strangely used for to be with child; properly, she got a gown of green eight months before: it can hardly mean, put on a green gown, literally, as at I, 358, 40.
gown-tail, gooun-teall II, 31, M (Child #58 M) 4; 472, 19; V, 235, 4: lower part of the skirt of a gown.
goy joy.
graid great.
graie dogs III, 7, (Child #114 E) (Child #114 F) 1: Scottish hunting dogs, deer dogs, rough greyhounds.
grain sitt in a graine, I, 210, (Child #18 A) 5: fork of a tree. III, 267, (Child #157 A) (Child #157 B) 21; 269, 14; V, 243, 17: branch of a tree.
graith n., IV, 86, (Child #203 B) (Child #203 C) 8: equipment (horse and arms).
graith v., V, 192, (Child #305 A) 34; 198 b, 34: make ready, p.p. graithed, IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 5; 27, 26: equipped in defensive armor, golden graithed behin, II, 191, (Child #73 F) 18; gowden-graithd before and siller-shod behind, II, 343, (Child #94 A) 4; shod wi silver afore an gold graithed behind, II, 194, (Child #73 H) 16, 20: properly, harnessed, but as the horse is silver-shod before and gold behind, 183, 16; 185, 23; V, 224, 14, shod seems to be meant here. So in the patched-up ballad IV, 410, (Child #253 A) 18. The horse silver-shod before and gold-shod behind is a commonplace; see II, 266, (Child #83 A) (Child #83 B) 1; 267, 1.
graithing (gowd), IV, 410, (Child #253 A) 18: harness or caparison, behind horse. But see graith, v.
grammarye, grammeree V, 294 b, 2: grammar, learning. II, 53, (Child #60 A) 36, 41; 54, 55; 55, 68: magic. Gramery = grammar, learning, occurs three times in the Towneley Mysteries, but strangely enough seems not to have been heard of in the sense of magic till we come to Percy's Reliques. Percy suggests that the word is probably a corruption of the French grimoire, a conjuring book. Grimoire, however, does not appear until the 16th century and was preceded by gramoire (Littré). Gramaire in the 13th-15th cen- turies has the sense of magic: see the history of grimoire in Littré. Godefroi interprets gramaire savant, magicien.
grandmother over IV, 70, G (Child #200 G) 2: corruption of, glamer, oer her.
grange-house III, 360, (Child #168 app) 116: farm-house.
grat II, 70, (Child #62 A) 25; 323, 26, 27; IV, 7, (Child #190 A) 35; V, 156, (Child #290 D) 11, 13, pret. of greet, weep.
gravat II, 283, (Child #86 A) (Child #86 B) 21; V, 240, 14: cravat.
graveld green II, 158, (Child #69 A) 1: a green with gravel walks? Probably corrupt: in yonder green, B, garden green G.
gravil I, 350, (Child #39 G) 18, 19 (pile o the gravil): expounded by Donaldson, Supplement to Jamieson, p. 304, as "the plant graymill or gromwell, of the genus Lithospermum, anciently used in the cure of gravel, hence its name. Said to be used also in producing abortion." I fear this is somewhat conjectural or even arbitrary. The pile seems to be simply some downy plant (velvety moss) which grows on stones; indeed we are expressly told this, IV, 456, 9, 12: 'a flower, it grows on gravel greay,' 'the pile that grows on gravel green.' (We have gravel green and gravel grey in the ordinary sense again, I, 347, (Child #39 D) (Child #39 E) 1.)
greaf grave.
greahondes, grehoundis greyhounds.
great I, 252, (Child #25 B) (Child #25 C) (Child #25 D) 3, 5: groat.
great IV, 373, (Child #244 C) 15; V, 176, (Child #301 A) 16: intimate, high in favor.
grece harte of, III, 27, (Child #116 A) 105: a fat hart.
gree III, 61, (Child #117 A) 108 (made the gree): paid my dues, (make gre in Old English, to discharge obligation; Old Fr. gre, gret, from gratum.)
gree from them take the gree, IV, 248, (Child #225 C) (Child #225 D) 16: prize, superiority. (Lat. gradus.)
greecy (ghost), II, 390, (Child #99 H) (Child #99 I) 27: frightful (grisly).
greeme I, 69, (Child #5 A) 51: (groom) young fellow. See grome.
greet, greit I, 186, B (Child #16 B) 3; 359, 1, 2; 448 f., B 1, 5; II, 77, (Child #62 F) (Child #62 G) (Child #62 H) (Child #62 I) 30; III, 384, (Child #173 A) 4; 387, 6; 391, 5; V, 36, C (Child #269 C) 3: weep, cry. pret. grat.
greete III, 105, (Child #120 A) 26: grit, gravel, sand.
greeter V, 183, (Child #304 A) 17: weeper.
greeting weeping.
grefe III, 69, (Child #117 A) 268; 83, 268: 87, 268: offence, displeasure, a-grefe, III, 69, (Child #117 A) 268: in displeasure.
grehoundis greyhounds.
greit, greet weep, cry.
grenner compar., V, 283, 9, 19: greener.
gret pret. of greet, address, III, 111, (Child #121 A) 40.
grett wurdes III, 297, (Child #161 A) 31: high, haughty words.
grevis III, 307, (Child #162 A) 6: groves. See grief.
grew grow.
grew V, 113 b, 7: greyhound. See grew hound.
grew hound, grewhund, grewehund I, 328, 47; II, 70, (Child #62 A) 24; 79, 37: Dr. J.A.H. Murray says Greek hound; "still called in Scotland a grewe, which was the older Scotch for Greek." Grew = Greek is well known in Middle English, and greyhound (Icelandic greyhundr) may have been changed to grewhound under its influence.
grey (meal), oat-meal and grey, II, 462, so: barley- (bere-) meal, as distinguished from oat-meal (white meal).
grief V, 151, P 1: grove, (tier should be tree.) See grevis.
grien III, 397, Q (Child #173 Q) 2: yearn, long.
griesly, grisly, grizly I, 298, (Child #32 A) 4: 300 a; V, 234 b, 31: frightful.
grievd pret., III, 162, (Child #134 A) 58: injured.
grimlie, grimly II, 45, (Child #59 A) 19, 31; 199 a; 201, 7: grim, terrible.
grind II, 216 f., (Child #76 A) 4, 27, 29: an apparent corruption for graith, graithed, accoutre, adorn. Cf. II, 191, (Child #73 F) 18; 194, 16, and many other places.
grinding I, 130, (Child #10 E) (Child #10 F) 1; 134, O 1: this word of the refrain may be suggested by the mill.
grips IV, 53, (Child #198 B) 13: clutches, fastenings. See signots.
grisel, grissell III, 369, (Child #169 B) 20, 23: gray horse.
grisly II, 397, A 30: terrible. See griesly.
grit, grite, gryte IV, 312, (Child #235 A) 9; 445, b 1: great.
grit oats IV, 20, (Child #192 C) (Child #192 D) 14: great, or improved oats as distinguished from the sma corn or oats of the early part of the century.
grith III, 101, (Child #119 A) 86, 87: (peace) remission of hostility, "charter of peace." neither grith nor grace, 358, 65.
grizly IV, 398, (Child #251 A) 21: frightful. See griesly.
grome, groom, greem I, 75, (Child #5 D) 40; 77, 20; 342, 40; 345, 38; 355, 52; 371, 3; III, 56, (Child #117 A) 4; 67, 224: man, young fellow.
gross II, 267, (Child #83 B) (Child #83 C) 13; 268, 18: big, burly.
ground the grounds o my pouches, V, 306, 9: bottoms (V, 165, (Child #294 A) 6 has, the boddoms of my pakets).
ground-wa-stane III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 12, 13: foundation-stone. (A.S. grundweall, fundamentum.)
growende ground.
grumly (A.S. gramlíc, gromlíc), (of the sea) II, 22, (Child #58 C) 10: furious, (of a seal) II, 494, (Child #113 A) 2: fierce-looking. (Jamieson: muddy, turbid.)
grun ground.
gryming IV, 6, (Child #190 A) 7; V, 249, 7: sprinkling, thin covering.
grype II, 45, (Child #59 A) 19, 31: griffon (also vulture).
grysely III, 298, (Child #161 A) 60: frightfully.
gryte great: I, 127, (Child #10 B) 22. See grit.
gude, gued = God, II, 94, (Child #63 G) 17; V, 221, 24.
gude, guid, gueed good.
gude, good pret. of go, III, 464, (Child #185 A) 4; V, 153, 1.
gude father, gude faythir I, 301, (Child #33 A) 1; 302, 1; 303, C 1: father-in-law.
gude mother II, 284, (Child #87 A) 10: mother-in-law.
gude neighbours I, 352, (Child #39 G) (Child #39 H) 8: euphemism for fairies.
gudeson, guidson II, 463, (Child #110 C) 20; IV, 309, (Child #234 A) 3; 310, 6: step-son, son-in-law, wrongly used of an own son, II, 219, (Child #76 B) (Child #76 C) 9.
gued, gueed, gueede I, 68, (Child #5 A) 10, 14; V, 221, 24: good.
gued God. See gude.
guid good.
guide, gyde n., I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 9; 102, 7; IV, 174, (Child #214 L) (Child #214 M) 19; 425, 6: one who has charge, etc., custodian. I shal be þe munkis gyde: III, 98, (Child #119 A) 35: take charge of him. death is her guide, II, 191, (Child #73 F) 29: has her in hand, this sword shall be thy guide, V, 49, (Child #271 A) 28: shall settle thy case. IV, 309, (Child #234 A) 2: escort, convoy.
guide v., I,481, (Child #53 N) 44; II, 152, I (Child #68 I) 2; III, 459, (Child #184 A) 21: treat, use.
guiding, gude I, 303, C (Child #33 C) 3: thrifty management.
guidson See gudeson.
guildery, guildery maids V, 301 b, 6: guildry is Scottish for guild, but this makes small sense here.
guilt all of guilt, II, 46, (Child #59 A) (Child #59 B) 43: of gilding or gilt metal, all begilt.
guirded V, 77, a b 23. See girded.
gull III, 217, (Child #149 A) 44: a fool.
gunies guineas.
gurious II, 380, (Child #99 A) 31: (same as gruous, grugous) grim, grisly (or, ugly).
gurly (sea) II, 26, (Child #58 G) (Child #58 H) 14; IV, 366, (Child #243 C) (Child #243 D) (Child #243 E) 7: grim, surly, growling. gurrl(e)y fellow, IV, 489, 24, 25: gruff, surly.
gutter-hole I, 164, K (Child #12 K) 3: the place where filth from the kitchen is thrown.
gyde be þe munkis, III, 98, (Child #119 A) 35: take charge of the monk. See guide.
gyff gif, if.
gyll II, 478, (Child #111 A) 4: opprobrious term for woman, here referring to levity.
gyrde pret., III, 66, (Child #117 A) 211: girt.
gyst III, 13, (Child #115 A) 10: gettest.
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