Vocabulary of Orkney Dialect in 1905

1.		mother		midderr
2.		father		fedderr
3.		sister		sisterr
4.		brother		bridderr
5.		daughter		dahchterr
6.		son

1.		water		watterr
2.		fire		fyrre
3.		sun		sun
4.		moon
5.		wind		wind
6.		rain

1.		one		in
2.		two		twa
3.		three		trree
4.		four
5.		five
6.		six		sax

1.		cat		gibby
2.		dog
3.		horse		horrse
4.		cow		coo
5.		fish
6.		bird
7.		tree		trree
8.		flower

1.		white		hwate
2.		black		black
3.		red		rreid
4.		green
5.		yellow
6.		blue		blue
7.		grey
8.		brown

Orkney dialect was spoken in

Kirkwall
Stromness


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