Unit 7, Appendix 6, Most commonly used words
Most commonly used words in Scots and English
Verbs are given in their infinitive form in Scots (fir tae pley) and in English (to play).
A |
I |
feather |
feather |
fir tae coont |
to count |
ye (ya – accusitory) |
you (singular) |
hair |
hair |
fir tae say |
to say |
he |
he |
heid |
head |
fir tae sing |
to sing |
we |
we |
lug |
ear |
fir tae pley |
to play |
yees |
you (plural) |
ee |
eye |
fir tae float |
to float |
they |
they |
neb |
nose |
fir tae flow |
to flow |
iss |
this |
mooth |
mouth |
fir tae freeze |
to freeze |
at |
that |
tuith |
tooth |
fir tae sweel |
to swell |
here |
here |
tung |
tongue (organ) |
sun |
sun |
there |
there |
fingernail, fingerhorn |
fingernail |
mune |
moon |
wha |
who |
fit |
foot |
ster |
star |
whit |
what |
leg, shank |
leg |
watter |
water |
whaur |
where |
knap |
knee |
rain |
rain |
whan |
when |
haun |
hand |
burn, watter |
river |
hou |
how |
wing |
wing |
loch |
lake |
no |
not |
wame |
belly |
watter |
sea |
aw |
all |
guts, grailloch, haggis |
guts |
saut |
salt |
monie |
many |
hause, craig |
neck |
stane |
stone |
some |
some |
back |
back |
saun |
sand |
no monie |
few |
breist |
breast |
stoor |
dust |
ither |
other |
hairt |
heart |
yird |
earth |
ane/ae een, yin | wan |
one |
liver |
liver |
clood |
cloud |
twa |
two |
fir tae drink |
to drink |
haar |
fog |
thrie |
three |
fir tae eat |
to eat |
luft |
sky |
fower |
four |
fir tae bite |
to bite |
wind |
wind |
five |
five |
fir tae sook |
to suck |
snaw |
snow |
muckle |
big |
fir tae grogger |
to spit |
ice |
ice |
lang |
long |
fir tae boak |
to vomit |
reek |
smoke |
wide |
wide |
fir tae blaw |
to blow |
fire |
fire |
thick |
thick |
fir tae breath |
to breathe |
esh |
ash |
heavy |
heavy |
fir tae lauch |
to laugh |
tae burn |
to burn |
wee, sma |
small |
fir tae see |
to see |
gait, wynd, loan |
road |
short |
short |
fir tae hear |
to hear |
moontain |
mountain |
narra |
narrow |
fir tae ken, fir tae knaw |
to know |
rid, reid |
red |
thin |
thin |
fir tae hink |
to think |
green |
green |
wumman |
woman |
fir tae smell |
to smell |
yilla |
yellow |
man |
man (adult male) |
fir tae be feart |
to fear |
white |
white |
man |
man (human being) |
fir tae sleep |
to sleep |
black |
black |
bairn, wean, cheil |
child |
fir tae live |
to live |
nicht |
night |
wife, wifie, guidwife |
wife |
fir tae dee |
to die |
day |
day |
guidman |
husband |
fir tae kull |
to kill |
year |
year |
mither |
mother |
fir tae fecht |
to fight |
warm |
warm |
faither |
father |
fir tae hunt |
to hunt |
cauld |
cold |
craeture |
animal |
fir tae hit |
to hit |
full |
full |
fish |
fish |
fir tae cut |
to cut |
new |
new |
burd |
bird |
fir tae sinner |
to split |
auld |
old |
dug |
dog |
fir tae stab, fir tae plunge |
to stab |
guid |
good |
loose |
louse |
fir tae scrit |
to scratch |
bad, shan |
bad |
snake, esp |
snake |
fir tae dig |
to dig |
foostie |
rotten |
wurm |
worm |
fir tae swoom |
to swim |
maukit, manky |
dirty |
tree |
tree |
fir tae flee |
to fly |
strecht |
straight |
wids |
forest |
fir tae walk |
to walk |
roond |
round |
stick |
stick |
fir tae come |
to come |
shairp |
sharp (as a knife) |
fruit |
fruit |
fir tae lig |
to lie (as in a bed) |
blint |
dull (as a knife) |
seed, kern |
seed |
fir tae sit |
to sit |
smuith |
smooth |
leaf |
leaf |
fir tae staun |
to stand |
weet |
wet |
ruit |
root |
fir tae birl |
to turn (intransitive) |
dry |
dry |
bark |
bark (of a tree) |
fir tae faw |
to fall |
richt |
correct |
flooer |
flower |
fir tae gie |
to give |
near |
near |
gress, girss |
grass |
fir tae haud |
to hold |
faur |
far |
rape |
rope |
fir tae squeeze |
to squeeze |
richt |
right |
skin |
skin |
fir tae rub |
to rub |
left |
left |
maet |
meat |
fir tae wash |
to wash |
at |
at |
bluid |
blood |
fir tae dicht |
to wipe |
in |
in |
bane |
bone |
fir tae pull |
to pull |
wi |
with |
fat, creash |
fat (noun) |
fir tae push |
to push |
an |
and |
egg |
egg |
fir tae fling |
to throw |
gif, gin |
if |
horn |
horn |
fir tae tie |
to tie |
acause |
because |
tail |
tail |
fir tae sew |
to sew |
nemm |
name |
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