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What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« 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.
Smellie from Gartshore to New Monkland;  Sneddon from Polmont to New Monkland;  Lumsden, Bo'ness to Lanarkshire;  Black, McCallum, Wotherspoon at New Monkland;  Fyfe at  Cambuslang;  Currie, Hamilton on Arran; Gilchrist, Brown, Campbell on Islay

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Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 28 March 22 14:02 BST (UK) »
Could the last word be will but spelled with a y 'wyll'?

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Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 28 March 22 19:03 BST (UK) »
Of a building, zitt wast means "still unoccupied" or "even unoccupied".

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Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« Reply #3 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.
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 28 March 22 21:44 BST (UK) »
Yogh.

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Re: What do you make of "zitt wast"?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 29 March 22 02:35 BST (UK) »
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs
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