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Title: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: alys on Monday 28 March 22 11:02 BST (UK)

In the Hearth Tax records for Dunbartonshire on ScotlandsPlaces (E69/7/1/10) the transcription of the highlighted line is "given ovir as zitt wast". Any help with this phrase would be appreciated.

Title: Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: Crumblie on Monday 28 March 22 14:02 BST (UK)

Could the last word be will but spelled with a y 'wyll'?

Title: Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: GR2 on Monday 28 March 22 19:03 BST (UK)

Of a building, zitt wast means "still unoccupied" or "even unoccupied".

Title: Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: goldie61 on Monday 28 March 22 21:12 BST (UK)

This is a really good site for all those old Scottish words.
Dictionary of the Scots language.
https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/waste_adj
For 'Zitt' you have to use the symbol '3' - so 3itt.
It's more of a 'y'. GR2 will no doubt know the name of the letter/symbol.

Title: Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: GR2 on Monday 28 March 22 21:44 BST (UK)

Yogh.

Title: Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
Post by: goldie61 on Tuesday 29 March 22 02:35 BST (UK)

Quote from: GR2 on Monday 28 March 22 21:44 BST (UK)

Yogh.

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