mither

Inherited from Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor.

'There you gang,' she cries, 'broking wi' thae wearifu' Pharisees o' Caulds, whae daurna darken your mither's door! A bonnie dutiful child, quotha! Wumman, hae ye nae pride, or even the excuse o' a tinkler-lass?'

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


sister

From Middle English sister, syster, forms of suster influenced by Old Norse systir, from Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


uncle

From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)).


son

From Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from *sewH- (“to bear, give birth”).


body

From Middle English body, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).


witch

From Middle English wicche, from Old English wiċċe (“witch (female),sorceress”) and wiċċa (“witch (male), sorcerer”) m., deverbative from wiċċian (“to practice sorcery”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną (compare West Frisian wikje, wikke (“to foretell, warn”), German Low German wicken (“to soothsay”), Dutch wikken, wichelen (“to dowse, divine”)), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk- (“to consecrate; separate”); akin to Latin victima (“sacrificial victim”), Lithuanian viẽkas (“life-force”), Sanskrit विनक्ति (vinákti, “to set apart, separate out”).

cog

witch; A person, chiefly a woman, skilled in sorcery.


warlock

From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wēr- (“true”); compare veritable) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie).

warlock-breef

a written commission to be a warlock, a magic charm, supernatural power

(attributive, in combination) bewitched, magical, supernatural; malevolent, mischievous

(derogatory) an old, ugly or misanthropic man; a mischievous or troublesome fellow


fermer

From Middle English fermour; compare English farmer.


quean

From Middle English quene, from Old English cwene, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).

(Shetland) A ram incapable of procreation, a hermaphrodite sheep.


acker

From Middle English actour, from Latin āctōr; equivalent to ack + -er.


dochter

Inherited from Middle English doughter, from Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr.


chapman

Inherited from Middle English chapman, from Old English cēapmann (“dealer”) (cognate with synonymous German Kaufmann), from cēap (“barter, business, dealing”).

When chapman billies leave the street, / And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet


eme

From Middle English eem, from Old English ēam, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.


brither

head

brither (plural brithers or brether or breder or breether or breither)

brithers (plural)
brether (plural)
breder (plural)
breether (plural)
breither (plural)

Inherited from Middle English brother, from Old English brōþor.


faither

Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.


fowk

From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką.


cailleach

→ English: cailleach, Cailleach

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic cailleach, from Old Irish caillech, from caille (“veil”) + -ach.


bodie

A member of Genus Homo. Not to be confused with person, although all "bodies" are people.


spaeman

spae (“to prophesy, foretell, predict, tell fortunes”) + man


buckie

Uncertain; perhaps compare Latin buccinum (“whelk”).


minnie

One boy, on coming late, explained that the cause had been a regular pitched battle between his parents, with the details of which he amused his school-fellows; and he described the battle in vivid and Scottish Homeric terms: "And eh, as they faucht, and they faucht," adding, however, with much complacency, "but my minnie dang, she did tho'."

1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:

"There's naething left in the fair Dodhead, But a greeting wife and bairnies three, And sax poor ca's[134] stand in the sta', A' routing loud for their minnie."

1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):

When first I gaed to woo my Jenny, Ye then was trotting wi' your minnie: Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie, Ye ne'er was donsie; But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie, An' unco sonsie.

1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:


bonnie fechter

fearless fighter, zealot, disputatious person


fechter

From Middle English feghter, from Old English feohtere, equivalent to fecht + -er.

bonnie fechter

fearless fighter, zealot, disputatious person


haiverel

haiver (“to haver, talk in a foolish or trivial manner, speak nonsense”) + -el


guid-mither

[ˈɡødˌmɪðər]

[ˈɡydˌmɪðər]

[ˈɡjødˌmɪðər]

[ˈɡødˌmɪdər]

[ˈɡɪdˌmɪðər]

[ˈɡedˌmɪðər]

[ˈɡidˌmɪðər]


guid-faither

[ˈɡødˌfeːðər]

[ˈɡødˌfɛðər]

[ˈɡydˌfɛðər]

[ˈɡjødˌfeːðər]

[ˈɡjødˌfɛðər]

[ˈɡɪdˌfeːðər]

[ˈɡɪdˌfɛðər]

[ˈɡedˌfɛðər]

[ˈɡidˌfɛðər]


hempie

A Gilpy that had ſeen the Faught, / I wat he was nae lang, / Till he had gather'd ſeven or aught / Wild Hempies ſtout and ſtrang;

1720, Allan Ramsay, “Christ's Kirk on the Green”, in Poems, canto 3, page 117:

(often humorous) Someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.


sutchkin

From Old Norse systkin (“siblings”). Compare Danish søskende, Faroese, Icelandic systkin, Norwegian Bokmål søsken and Swedish syskon.

He wis just laek his sutchkins.

1952, John J. Hunter, Taen wi da Trow, page 211:


acquantance

From Middle English aqueyntaunce, from Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”); equivalent to acquant + -ance.