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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1667

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Nait, Naitt, a.2 (Conceivably an otherwise unrecorded use of Naita.1 in the orig. ON. sense of ‘fit for use, in good order’, but perh. merely use of nait Nete a. clean, trim, dainty, tidy). —1667 Edinburgh Testaments LXXIII. 121 b.
All & syndrie my haill vther vtenceillis and domiceillis als weel not naitt as nait

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