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agl¹, agel or aggel [agəl], vb., 1) vb. a., to get to blaze, in the expr.: to a. op [‘up’] de birtek = to aber op de b., to get the fire to blaze up; to liven up the fire, tabu-phrase, used by the fishermen at sea. Yⁿ. On long fishing excursions at sea they commonly had cooking-utensils in the boat. 2) vb. n., to work energetically and perseveringly; to push on something vigorously and with perseverance, to a. atill ony wark [‘into any work’]. Nm^w. With agl², must be classed Ag(g)lom or Ag(g)lem [agləm], used as a nickname for someone who with great eagerness pursues some particular occupation, e. g. fishing (Nm^w.). — agl is prob. to be explained as a deriv. of “ag”, drift (or “agg”, unrest; incitement; irritation); see further under ag, agg, (sb. and (vb. One may, however, also think of (No. alka, (vb., to irritate, with change of l and k; (cf. agl², vb.

agl², agel [agəl (aⁱgl)], vb., to dirty; defile; soil, to a. anesell (du’s ageld dee), to a. wi’ dirt; to root, do no a. wi’ dat, don’t lie and root among that. ageld, perf. part., and adj., defiled; soiled (comm.), occas. also in disorder; crumpled (U^s.). Cf. No. alka, vb., to dirty; defile. For the form, cf. ugl, ugel, vb., prob. from No. “ulka”, syn. with “alka”. Or orig. *aðla? For aðl- see alan, sb.

agment [agmə‘nt], sb., unrest, anxiety (anxious care?). Appears to be a deriv. of or a compd. with *ag or *agg (No. agg, n., unrest, aggast, vb. r. to be anxious). See above, agbond, sb.

agos [āgȯs], sb., thing or being fear-inspiring to look at, Y^h., Fe. Deriv. of O.N. agi, m., fear; fright; cf. agisom. agos is either an original adjective, formed with the

affix -ous (ag-ous; cf. e.g. bad-ous, ubad-ous), or a substantive formed similarly to gapos.

ah [a(h)], interrogative interjection, what? what do you say? Also æh and oh (åh). No. ha, hæ, Fær. ha, Mod. Icel. a(h), interr. int., what? In O.N.: “há” with long a.

aker [akər], sb., 1) stalks of corn with the ears on, gleaned from the corn-field, in pl.: akers, gleanings. Rare. (Y^s.). Cf. mollek. 2) crushed, decomposed or crumbled mass; crushed or decomposed state, to lie in a.; to lay in a., to crush; destroy. S.Sh. Also a) æker [ækər] and eker [ɛkər], rather comm., as well as b) more rarely (N.I.) oker [åkər, ɔkər]. Prop. crushed mass of corn. Freq. used in same sense as herda (to lie or lay in h.), of corn in a decomposed and wholly or partly ruined condition on the field; corn trampled down by cattle, battered down by wind, etc. — From Du. is reported as obsolete eker [ɛkər] in the comb. “e. and hø”, corn (field) and hay. — O.N. akr, m., field; seed; crop, partly merged in the etymologically connected L.Sc. “aiker (aicher, aigar)”, ear, in pl. (aigars) of dried corn. — cf. with ref. to aker 2, the use of herda, sb. — In some compds. in Shetl. O.N. akr assumes the forms okr-, oge(r); see okrabung, okregert, oge(r)du, ogemuld.

*akkel [akəl], sb., projecting knoll; crag; hillock; esp. as a place-name, sea-term, used by fishermen as designation for hillocks serving as land-marks by which to find a fishing-ground. Thus: “de Akkels”, some hillocks on the hill Valafell (U.), serving as land-marks for the fishing-place “de Aklins” (Uⁿ.) which was named after them; “de Akkels”, two hillocks near the shore (Fedeland, N.Roe); “de Akkels”, “de inner and