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framer (inner and outer) Akkel” (Fe.), now the name of fishing-places. — O.N. ǫxl (axl-), f., a) shoulder, b) crag. — As the word (the name) in Shetl. mostly appears in pl. (of two or more hillocks collect.), akkel is doubtless derived from the pl. form akkels = O.N. axlar, pl.; de Aklins = *axlarnar (def. pl.) + Eng. s. — Cf. jokkel (hjokl) and *okkel, sb.

aklin, sb., peevish, grumpy person. Edm. Not further confirmed. Can be referred either to No. alka, vb., to irritate; to quarrel, with change of l and k, or to No. “hakke- (hakkenyn)” of a peevish, grumpy woman.

-aks [aks], sb., (ears of corn), in the compd. bitteraks, q.v.

al [āl], ali [āli], vb., 1) to feed; rear; support, esp. to feed an animal at home (in the house) in winter, comm. in the form ali: to a. a lamb, a grice [‘pig’]; cf. the substantives compounded with ali-. 2) to entice an animal to the house by fondling it and giving it food; to accustom an animal to have the run of the house, comm. in the form al and occas. ali; du’s [‘has’] ald (alid) de coo (lamb, bird, etc.) to de hoose or upo dy hand; also of persons: to entice one by kindness; to accustom one to have the run of one’s house. O.N. ala, vb., to feed; rear; support; in Fær. occas. also entice to the house, No. “ala” inter alia: to entice with food, bait.

alakadi, sb., see alikadi.

alamuti [ā·lamut·i], sb., stormy petrel (sea-bird), from muti, a) small being, b) stormy petrel. Ork. alamotti (Edm.). On account of the stormy petrel’s habit of squirting out a yellowish train-oil through the nostrils as a kind of defence the first part ala- may poss. be derived

from an original *aðl- meaning squirting out; belching out (offilth; filthy fluid). For this word-root see further under the foll. bird-name alan, alen.

†alan, alen [ālan, ālən, alən], sb., = sjui, sjug, a species of gull, skua, lestris parasitica, also named skuti [skuti]-alan (alen). Shetl. and Ork. (partly also L.Sc.). “scouti-aulin”, Ork. acc. to Jam. The bird is said to have its name from the fact that it swoops down on other birds and belches out a stinking fluid upon them for the purpose of depriving them of their food and taking it to its own young ones. skuti is derived from L.Sc. skoot, vb., to squirt any liquid; to evacuate liquid excrement; and alan, alen is poss. an older synonym: *aðl-? cf. Da. and Sw. dials. adel, al, sb., urine; cattle-wash; liquid manure, Da. dial. ale, vb., Sw. dial. ala, vb., wash (of cattle), L.G. adeln, vb., to sully with mud; fluid sharn, A.S. adela, O.Eng. adele, Mod. Eng. addle. Cf. the bird-name alamuti, where the first part of the word can be explained in the same way. The name “Allan hawk” is found in certain parts of Scotland and Ireland, partly for “Richardson’s skua” or “skuti-alan”, stercorarius crepidatus (Lat. stercus, n., excrement), partly for the red-throated diver and for the great northern diver. Cf. with “scouti-aulin” Ork. “skout” as a name for Uria Lomvia Pall. — Having regard to the occurrence of the word thus outside of Shetland, alan, alen is perhaps not originally a Shetl. term (i.e. orig. Shetl. Norn) even though it may be explained as Norse.

ald [āld], intensive in the phrase “ald udal”, immovable odal-property inherited from fore-fathers, scarcely originates from L.Sc. (and