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Fe. the same phenomenon is called “dala [dāla]-reek”, really “dale-smoke”.

dala [dāla]-reek, dal [dāl]-reek, sb., 1) = dalamjork, dalamist. 2) mist rising from low-lying, stagnant water (lakes-, ponds), spreading itself over the bottom of a valley. Fe. Other forms are: a) dalari [dal··ari·] (Nm^w.), prob. an abbr. of “dala-reek”, and b) dolra [dålra]-mist, dol(le)rom [dål··ərȯm·, dɔl··ərȯm·] (Wests.). — *dal-(røykr), “dale-smoke”, No. dalrøyk (R. suppl.) = frostrøyk, m., mist or fog rising from water during severely cold weather. — The form dol(le)rom may have arisen under influence of the word dolleroms, dolderoms [dål··ərȯms·, dål··dərȯms· dɔl··-], sb. pl., = Eng. doldrums, sb. pl.

dali [dāli], sb., see dal, sb. 3.

dali¹, vb., see dal¹, vb.

dali², vb., see dal², vb.

dalibrod [dal··ibråd·], sb., see dorafel.

dalk [da‘lk], djalk [dja‘lk (dᶎa‘lk)], vb., 1) to walk heavily as if wading, to geng d(j)alkin; Fe. In Wh. in the form tjalk [tᶊa‘lk] by hardening of dj [dᶎ] to tj [tᶊ]; te geng tjalkin, a) = to geng dalkin, djalkin (see above); b) to walk with soaking-wet feet, with water oozing from one’s shoes, with transition to meaning 3. 2) to stride; swagger; to geng dalkin; S.Sh. 3) to make a gurgling, slightly splashing sound, e.g. as a stroke with anything wet; only noted down in Wh. in the form tjalk [tᶊa‘lk]; a tjalkin soond, a gurgling or slightly splashing sound, caused by giving a stroke with something wet. — On Wests. (Sa.) a form djolk [dᶎå‘lk] is found in the sense of to walk with soaking-wet feet, with water oozing from one’s shoes; djolkin weet [‘wet’], with soaking-wet feet. —

No. dalka, vb., to dangle; bungle; mismanage; to soil with moist filth (Fær. dálka); to give a slight stroke with something soft and wet; also to saunter. — Cf. tjalk, sb.

dalslag [däᶅ·ᶊlāg·], sb., depression in the sea-bottom, fishing-ground with poor, soft (muddy, sandy) bottom; to fa’ upon [‘fall on’, to come upon] a d. (in fishing). Fe. Cf. No. dalslage (dal-slage), m., a small, low valley. Shetl. slag, sb., soft, damp hollow.

dammen(s) [damən(s)], sb., a ledge caused by a landslide on a steep slope, esp. near the coast; a dammen(s) i’ de banks, a green d. Fe. As a place-name, e.g. in: de Dammens o’ Bakkigert, de Dammens o’ Hubi (Fe.), steep stretch of coast with ledges caused by landslides. The plural -s in place-names has found its way into the sing. form in the colloq. language. The word is prob. O.N. dammr, m., dam, in an older sense: “mound, bank”. damm is found, in the sense of bank, in Kalder-damm [kaldər dam] (Sa.), the name of a steep, rocky bank of a stream. Cf. “Dam” in Scottish place-names, e.g. Starry Dam (H. Maxwell, Topography of Galloway) in the sense of lake-shore.

†damp [da‘mp], sb., end; the lower end of a fishing hand-line or long-line; comm.; occas. of an end-piece in general. Tabu-word, used by fishermen at sea. Of fairly mod. origin.; L.G., Da. and No. tamp, sb., a piece of a rope. Fær. dampur, m., end of a long-line (Svabo), is certainly a word borrowed from Shetl.

†damp [da‘mp], vb., to wear off the end of a fishing hand-line or long-line; de line is dampet (dampet op), the end has been torn off the hand-line. Sometimes in a wider sense: to break or tear off the