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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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Mothers toung, tongue. [e.m.E. (1540, 1617).] Mothert(o)ung. — 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. (S.T.S.) 224/12.
Thir dogmatizars … hes translatit the Bible in thair mothers toung
c1695 Satire on Stair in Bk. Pasquils (1827) i. 49.
His mother's tongue learn'd him his father's law

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