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Posted By: Dave MacKenzie
09-Jun-11 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: Help: Britten's The Highland Balou: Highland terms
Subject: RE: Britten's The Highland Balou: Need word meaning

According to the Concise Scots Dictionary, there are two words craig in Scots: 1 a crag, rock; cliff etc... obscurely related to Gael craeg, Welsh craig

and 2 The neck....Middle Dutch craghe

And in MacLennan's Gaelic-English Dictionary, Gaelic craeg is derived from Early Irish crec, a crag.

A case of linguistic convergence