The meaning of grice in Scots

Horn writes, in Kasher, Implicature:

"Consider German 'Tier'. This has broadened from 'wild animal' to include domestic livestock and pets as well as man."

"At the same time, its English cognate has turned autohyponymous through narrowing. OE 'deor' ME 'deer' orgiginally designated beasts in general, especially 'objects of chase'., then became restricted to single out the object of chase par excellence, fam. Cervidae."

"But, by the early modern period, the general use of 'deer' had been largely
supplanted by the Romance loans 'beast', 'brute' and 'animal'."


--- Something similar, but only different, happened, in Scotland, with grice. This referred to a wild animal that we would call, in England, pig.

They were once so numerous, they are exctinct today, that the farmers formulated what they called "The Grice Law" to have the fields free from them.

The relic is in a plant that grows in those fields yet, called the grice-rose.

Etc.

JL

Ref. Wiki, 'grice'.