A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Maternally, adv. [Maternal,a. 1 a.] As one's mother tongue. —1632 Lithgow Trav. 116.
They speake vulgarly and maternally here the Hebrew tongue
