HOGMANAY  , the name in See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland and some parts of the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England for New See also:

• YEAR

Year's See also:

• EVE

Eve, as also for the cake then given to the See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, On the See also:

• MORNING

morning of the 31st of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December the children in small bands go from See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door to door singing: " Hogmanay Trollolay Gie's o' your See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• BREAD

bread and nane o' your See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey ";and begging for small gifts or See also:

• ALMS

alms . These usually take the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of an oaten cake . The derivation of the See also:

• TERM

term has been much disputed . See also:

• COTGRAVE, RANDLE (?-1634)

Cotgrave (1611) says: " It is the See also:

• VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country folks begging small presents or New Year's gifts . . . an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient term of rejoicing derived from the See also:

• DRUIDS, ORDER OF

Druids, who were wont the first of each See also:

• JANUARY

January to go into the See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods, where, having sacrificed and banquetted together, they gathered mistletoe, esteeming it excellent to make beasts fruitful and most soverayne against all poyson." And he connects the word, through such See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French forms as hoguinane, with the old French aguilanneuf, which he explains as an gui-l'an-neuf, " to the mistletoe! the New Year!"—this being (on his See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation) the Druidical salutation to the coming year as the revellers issued from the woods armed with boughs of mistletoe . But though this explanation may be accepted as containing the truth in referring the word to a French See also:

• ORIGINAL

original, Cotgrave's detailed See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology is now repudiated by scientific philologists, and the identical French aguilanneuf remains, like it, in obscurity .