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sible; N.I. etc. *ampi; Fær. ampi, m., trouble; unrest; haste; No. ampe, m., trouble; inconvenience.

amp [a‘mp], vb., to be anxious, restless; be unable to sleep; esp. in connection with the verb “lie”, to lie and a., to lie ampin. Wests. See amp, sb.

ampel [a‘mpəl] and more rarely amper [a’mpər], adj., 1) with sharp outline; clear and distinct; Fe.; Yⁿ., de land is very ampel, the land appears clear and distinct (in clear weather); a ampel sky = a aber sky; see aber, adj. 2. 2) greedy; eager; active; indefatigable at work; Fe.; cf. aber, adj. 4. Along with this ampelness (Fe.), greed; eagerness; activity; indefatigability. *ampr, parallel form to *apr (Shetl. aber); No. amper, adj., sharp; acrid (in taste) etc. (also inter alia bustling; hastening, R.); Sw. (dial.) amper, adj., sharp (in taste), also inter alia active; indefatigable; Da. dial. ampre sig and ample, Sw. dial. amplä, vb., to set strenuously to work; to strive eagerly.

annapi, sb., see ennapi.

*an(n)ari [anā·ri], see under *fari, sb.

*and [and, äᶇd], sb., breath, esp. the last breath of life; to blag de (ane’s) a., to give up the ghost; die, he’s blaget de (his) a. (see blag, vb.); to draw ane’s a., to worry one to death, diff. from “to draw ane’s end, ænd”. N.I. O.N. andi, m., and ǫnd, f., breath; “ǫnd” esp. soul; life, cf. end (ænd), sb. The word used in the expr. hand², handi (q.v.) is certainly the same.

andelokk (-lukk) [aⁱn··dəlȯk·, äᶇ··dəlȯk, -lək·], sb., accident; misfortune; sudden, unforeseen illness etc.; if nae [‘no’] a. happens till [‘to’] de coo [‘cow’] or yowe [‘ewe’] —. Fe., Yⁿ., Uⁿ. Also ondelokk (-lukk) [åᶇ··dəlȯk, -lək·, ȯᶇ··də-];

der’r a o. fa’en [‘fallen’] upo dem, they have met with an accident (Yⁿ.). *andlukka; O.N. “and” against (particle, forming the first part of compds.); O.N. lukka, f., luck. Edm. expresses “angaluck” as “accident; misfortune”; this is poss. an older form: *andg(a)lukka, where “g(a)” is the old prefix (cf. G. “Gluck”).

andi¹ [andi, äᶇdi], sb., stink; strong and disagreeable smell. Fe., U^mo. From U^wg. a form ongdi [ɔⁱŋdi] is reported. O.N. andi, m., breath.

andi² [andi], recorded in the verse “Eeli eeli a.! kast a knot upo dy tail! I’ll slipp dee hwar I fann dee” (Uⁿ.). Eel, eel (in hand?) make a knot upon thy tail and I’ll set thee free again where I found thee, (said by boys to a captive eel which is grasped by the head and held with outstretched arm). *í handi = í hendi (in hand)?

andr [äᶇdȯr (andor, äᶇ·dōr·)] and more comm. ander [andər, āndər, äᶇdər], sb., small porch; penthouse; Wests. [andər: Sa., Fo.; andor: Papa St.); S.Sh., esp. Conn. [āndər, andər, äᶇdər]; Fe. [äᶇdȯr, äᶇdər]. On Wests. a parallel form amder [amdər] is found. In Fe. the word is also used to designate the foll.: a) the space between the byre-door and the door which leads from the byre to the dwelling-house; b) the door between the byre and the barn; c) wooden lintel or (esp.) shelf above the door to lay things on; the uppermost edge of a stone wall, forming an angle with the roof, esp. and prop. above the door, and used for depositing things on (cf. esins, sb. pl.); he laid it op [‘up’] upo do a. o’ de hoose, o’ de byre (Fe.); — From Fe. also in the form onder [ȯᶇdər, ɔ̇ᶇdər]. From Y^h. is recorded andor [äᶇ·dōr·], meaning a blind door in a byre or