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Dwelly also gives fraoch nam curra bhitheag without translation.
, E. cinerea ) but which is literally `near or close to heather'; and fraoch nam Meinnearach is assigned to clan Menzies, though the name probably derives from Archibald Menzies, a well-known 18th-century botanist of North America, rather than from a very rare heather this clan is not likely to have encountered, never mind worn into battle.
He also assigns dluth fraoch to the clan Robertson, translated as the `fine-leaved heath' (i.e.
In the Gaelic parts of Scotland and Ireland, the word for heather was fraoch , pronounced nearly like German fröch . There are many regional differences in Gaelic, and fraoch can be pronounced “FREWX” or “FRAWX” in some parts of Gaeldom, perhaps explaining some of the spellings that have come into English for health-related words like frawlin or fraughan for blueberry, and freuchan for the “reinforcing toe cap of a brogue” (shoe, not accent) to prevent excessive wear by the heather.
fraoch- `fived [sic] leaved heath' (for E. cinerea) badain fraoch- `cat heather' (for E. tetralix), also rendered frangach as mionfhraoch `small heather' and fraoch `faulty, blemished(?)