Scotch Gaelicn.adj.

1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxi This affords a proof, that the Scotch Galic is the most original, and, consequently the language of a more antient and unmixed people.

1845 J. O'Donovan Gram. Irish Lang. ii. vi. 271 In the Erse, or Scotch Gælic.

1875 U. J. Bourke Aryan Origin Gaelic Race & Lang. ix. 233 ‘F’ is eclipsed by ‘v’, that is ‘b’ (in Irish); in Scotch-Gaelic, ‘bh’.

1921 B. Fitzpatrick Ireland & Making of Brit. (ed. 3) 319 Irish continued the classic and literary tongue in Scotland, the peasantry using a colloquial dialect, known to speakers of English as Earse (Irish), a broad-Scots term which is translated into proper English now as Scotch-Gaelic.

1959 Jrnl. County Louth Archaeol. Soc. 14 172 In both Irish and Scotch Gaelic there is a word, ‘stob’, meaning to fix a stake in the ground.

2007 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 16 Sept. b8 She sings in the Scotch Gaelic still spoken by the old folks up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

1776 Catal. of Lib. Faculty of Advocates Edinb. II. 57/1 The New Testament in Greek and English..The same translated in the Caledonian, or Scotch Gaelic language. Edinburgh 1767.

1820 New Monthly Mag. Sept. 326/2 The translations by Macpherson..appear to be very imperfect: this is accounted for by the Scotch Gaelic poets having no character in which to preserve their poems.

1897 J. Mackinnon Robertson Saxon & Celt 45 It is plausibly argued that Kelti or Celtae was a ‘Celtic’ word closely connected with that preserved in the Scotch-Gaelic word Caledon, whence comes Caledonia.

1941 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 54 217 The need for supplementing the stock of Scotch Gaelic texts have made scholars wish for more tales from Campbell's manuscript.

2002 J. G. Gibson Old & New Highland Bagpiping Introd. 6 My impressions..are founded on as solid a base as can be safely inferred from what knowledge we have from elsewhere in the Scotch Gaelic world.