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skifte: partition of inheritance. — The form *arff is derived from O.N. arfr, m., inheritance, *airff, *ayrffe either from “arfr” or from O.N. erfð, f., succession to property; inheritance. In meaning 3, “airff” is prob. an abbr. of O.N. arfskipti, n., partition of inheritance. airff 4, which can be accepted as an abbr. of *“airff-ting”, is doubtless a development from “airff 3” with which, in the phrases “to mak’ a., to had a.”, it is merged. — Ork. (Dennison) erif = Shetl. a(i)rff 4. — Cf. *arvhus.

arg [arg], adj., 1) evil; bad; in this sense now certainly in only a few phrases; exclamations such as: arga dirt! damned dirt! Fe. Cf. the under-mentioned derivatives argeri and argosi, sb. 2) desirous and eager; very desirous of something; foll. by infinitive or prep. upon; a. upon somet’in’; Fo. O.N. argr, adj., evil; bad; sensual, etc.; with ref. to meaning 2 of Shetl. arg cf. Sw. dial. arg, adj., which inter alia, can mean active.

arg [arg], vb., to talk ill-temperedly and hot-headedly; insist upon or contradict violently, esp. of a hot-headed quarrel; dey arged [argət] de ane i’ de face o’ de tidder [‘the one in the face of the other’]. N.I. Partly O.N. (No., Sw., Icel., Fær.) arga, vb., to worry; excite; partly Eng. argue, vb. Cf. erg, vb.

*argeri [ar··gəri·], sb., angry, importunate crowd. Uⁿ. Edm. has: “argerie, a crowd, a multitude”. Prob. deriv. of arg, adj. 1.

*argosi [ar··gosi·], sb., malice; passion; anger. Uⁿ. Formed from arg, adj., wicked; naughty, etc. Cf. Fær. argur, adj., bad; ill-tempered.

ari [ari], sb., comm. in pl.: aris, de aris o’ de tide, o’ de brost (beginning of ebb): the first slight movement of the tide after the turn. Ai. See arel, sb. and vb.

ark [a‘rk], sb., chest; case, comm. used fig. of a heavily-built and big-boned animal, a great a. o’ a coo [‘cow’] or hweg (heifer). O.N. ǫrk and arka, f., chest; case; L.Sc. ark, sb., chest.

arm [ārm], sb., tail-end; end, esp. on a fishing hand-line. Tabu-word at sea. Uⁿ. O.N. armr, m., a) arm; b) extremity; extreme edge. arm, a part of the body, in Shetl. is now comm. called: airm [ærm, ǣrm]. — Cf. arvi² and damp, sb.

arm [ārm], adj., poor; wretched; weakly and thin; Y^h. armet [ārmət] and armin [ārmin], a.-lookin’: Fe. armet: Du. arm has a further use in combination with “poor” in expr. as: he’s nedder [‘neither’] puir [‘poor’] or arm, he is well off. O.N. armr, adj., poor; unhappy.

arm [ārm], vb., of a wretched, emaciated being: to drag oneself along; to crawl about, to geng armin aboot; de sheep gengs armin aboot de dykes. Fe. Formed from arm, adj., influenced by the verbs ar and arel.

ar [ar]-tree, sb., 1) plough-beam; long-bar; the foremost part of a plough; Irel., Du.; 2) a piece of wood which is nailed down on the fore-end of the plough-beam, and to which the traces are fastened; Sandw., Du. *arðr-(tré); O.N. arðr, m., plough. Cf. orderos (erderos) and erskäi.

arvek [arvək], sb., species of sea-bird, see further under hervek, hirvek.

*arvhus [ärvhus], sb., now only preserved in the phrase “de a. o’ Norbi” (Sa.), also called “de ha’- hoose o’ Norbi”. ha’ [‘hall’]-hoose = large and high-class house. The house in question has now disappeared, but stood within living memory as a ruin (acc. to the judicial-register discarded as a dwelling-house before 1735). “arvhus” is mentioned by the late schoolmaster