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go back, etc.; also called “to geng [‘go’] fitj-fetels [fɩtᶊ··fæt·əls]. No. fitja, Sw. dial. fittja, vb., to draw together (to plait), tie together; Icel. fitja, vb., to make folds; Da. fedde, vb., to tie in skeins (hanks of thread).

fitj-fetel, sb., see under fitj, vb.

fitjin [fɩtᶊɩn], straw-band twisted in and out, used in thatching. U. Deriv. of fitj, vb.

fitl, fitel [fɩtəl, f^ɛitəl, f^æitəl, fæitəl], vb., 1) to take short, light steps in walking; U.? (Edm.: fittl). 2) to do trifling work; to bungle; to f. aboot somet’in’; what is du fitlin aboot? N.Roe or Wh. [fɩtəl]; Uⁿ. [(f^ɛitəl, f^æitəl) fæitəl], — O.N. (and Mod. Icel.) fitla, vb., to touch lightly; No. fitla, vb., to bungle; trifle; Sw. dial. (Gothl.) fittlä, vb., to be dilatory. — Cf. fatl, fattel, vb. 2, with fitl 2. See further fit, vb., from which fitl is derived.

fitlek, fitlin, fitrik, sb., a sea-term (tabu-name) for mouse; see further fotlek, fotlin, sb.

fitlin [fɩtlin, fətlin, f^əɩtlin, fəɩtlin, fəɩtᶅɩn, fäitlin, fäitᶅɩn], sb., the skin of the foot of animals, esp. of a cow, ox, or horse; is made into rivlins (shoes). — fɩtlɩn, fətlin: comm. fəɩtᶅɩn and fäitᶅɩn: Fe. fäitlin: Uⁿ. — *fitlingr. No. fitel (R.) and fetling (Aa.), m., skin of the foot of an animal, fitjung, m., a shoe made of the skin of a foot, are derivs. of O.N. fit, f., hide between the hoofs of a cloven-footed animal, also web, the webbed foot of water-birds, in No. also = fitel, fetling. Cf. O.N. fitskór, m., a shoe made of fit. — See pjokleg, sb.

fitlinn, fit-linn [fɩtlɩn, fətlɩn], sb., a stretcher in a boat supporting the feet in rowing, = Fær. fótalunnur. The first syllable is L.Sc. fit, sb., a foot; for the second syllable see linn¹, sb.

fitsek, sb., a sea-term (tabu-name) for mouse; see fotsek, sb.

fittek, fitter, fittin, sb., sea-term (tabu-name) for mouse and cat; see fudin (futen, futer).

fitti, sb., see foti (futi), sb.

fitwark, fit-wark [fətwä‘rk], sb., 1) pain in the feet. 2) much trudging about; we had a f. destreen [‘yesterday’]. O.N. fótaverkr, m., gout. “fit” is a L.Sc. form (cf. prec. fitgeng, fitlinn); prob. also “wä‘rk” (L.Sc. wark = Eng. work, N.Eng. dial. wark = an ache, a pain). The compd., now modified in its form acc. to L.Sc. pronunc., is doubtless ancient in Shetl., arising from O.N. fótaverkr, to which the meaning of “fitwark 1” assimilates.

fivl, fivel [fɩvəl], fivla [fɩvla (fəvla)] and fivlin [fɩvlɩn], sb., a very thin layer of something; a fiv(e)l o’ butter (on bread), o’ meal, o’ snaw [‘snow’], etc.; a fivlin o’ smer (Fo.) = a fiv(e)l o’ butter. In Fo. also noted down in sense of a thin layer of low-lying mist, a fivl o’ mist. Prob. mostly of a thin covering of snow, a fivl (fivla) o’ snaw. — fivl, fivel: comm. fivla: Fe. fivlin: Fo. — Other forms: fifl, fifel [fɩfəl], a f. o’ snaw, and fibl, fibel [fɩbəl], a f. o’ snaw (De.). — O.N. fǫlva (fölva), f., and fǫl (föl), f. and n., a thin covering of snow (snæfǫlva, snjá- and snjófǫl); Fær. følv (fölv), felv, n., and følvan (fölvan), felvan, f., a thin layer (of snow, of butter on bread), følva (fölva), felva, vb., to spread on quite thinly; to make a thin covering of snow on the ground. Icel. föl, n., a) fading; b) “a little snow hardly visible on the ground” (B.H.). — The Shetl. forms have arisen by metathesis of l and v: fivl for an older *filv or *felv.

fivl, fivel [fɩvəl], vb., to cover thinly, e.g. to spread butter thinly on bread, to f. upo de bread. Fo. Fær.