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idla jolsa [ɩdla jå‘lsa]! jilder hjolskin [jɩldər hjå‘lskɩn]! noted down respectively in Fo. (“idla jolsa”) and in Conn. (“jilder hjolskin”): ill luck take you! the deuce take you! Now obsolete and superseded by the oath “ill healt’”! — *ill heilsa. O.N. heilsa, f., welfare; health. — See helsin, helskin, sbs.

hjonamen, hjunamen [hjon··amən·, hjun··amən·], sb., a queer, droll-looking, savage-like person (e.g. with matted hair); wi’ a face like a h. Also hjonamel [hjɔn··aməl·, hjon··aməl]. U. The first part of the compd. hjona (hjuna)- is prob. No. haan(e), f., a fool, wretch, haan, m., senselessness, confusion. The second part men is poss. O.N. mynd, f., shape; figure; image (mel, in that case, is a corrupted form; l might be due to dissimilation).

hjonek [hjōnək, hjō^ənək], sb., 1) a small, emaciated person; turned op in (atill) a h., shrunken and emaciated. Y.; Fe. 2) a poor wretch; a useless, miserable person. N.I., esp. Y. and Fe. — In sense 1 the word indicates an association with No. hæna, vb., to become dried up, from *hán, *haan. With hjonek 2 cf. No. haan(e), f., a fool, poor wretch. See sjon, vb., sjonin and sjonament, sbs.

hjongs, vb., and hjongset, adj., see hungs, vb., humset¹ (hungset), adj.

hjonsa [hjɔ‘nsa (hj‘ånsa)], hjonsi [hjɔ‘nsi], sb., a hen (domestic fowl); only used as a tabu-word in fishermen’s language. Also with dropped h: jonsa [jɔ‘nsa, jå‘nsa] and jonsi [jɔ‘nsi (jå‘nsi)]. Fo. Original form: *hœns. O.N. hœna, f., a hen, hœnsn and hœns, n. pl., poultry. The Shetl. forms with final s in the root indicate that “hœns” was once used as a sing. word.

hjorken [hjȯ‘rkən], adj., greedy,

voracɩous; very hungry. Nm^w. (Esh.). From the root *hark; cf. Fær. herkja, vb., h. í seg, to devour, to eat greedily, and see harki, sb.

hjos [hjɔs (hjås)], vb., to devour; de fish is hjost [hjåst] de bait, the fish has swallowed the bait far down so that the hook is fixed in the stomach. Fe., Nm. Prob. from the root “hás, denoting harsh guttural sound (O.N. háss, adj., hoarse; No. hæsa, vb., Sw. dial. häsja, hässja, håsa, vb., to pant, groan). No. haasken, adj., greedy, voracious, is doubtless derived from “*hás”, and cognate with Shetl. hjos. For the change of meaning cf. harki (herki), sb., and hjorken, adj.

hjosi [hjosi] and hjosen [hjosən], sb., swine, esp. a young pig. Fo. The word is used as a pet name or jokingly; formerly used by Foula fishermen as a tabu-name at sea. The ending -en in hjosen is poss. the old def. art.; note the use of the word in def. form without prefixed “de [‘the’]” in the expr.: Are ye [‘have you’] gi’en hjosen ony met? have you given the pig any food? — The word is poss. to be classed with hjos, vb., to devour, and might, in that case, denote the greedy one; cf. harki (herki), sb., with a similar root-meaning as a tabu-name for swine. It may, however, be noticed that hyss (huss), hyssing, hysäre, m., in sense of swine, (young) hog, is found in Sw. dial., acc. to Ri.

hjukkisten [hjok··isten·], sb., a grindstone. Uⁿ. (Haroldswick). Poss. for *jukkisten, the first part of which might be No. and Sw. (dial.) jukka, vb., to move up and down; cf. No. jugga, vb., to move slightly to and fro. For prefixed h, see e.g. hjada, sb., hjagl, vb., hjog², sb., and hjogelben, sb.

†hjukl, hjukel [hjukəl, hjokəl], vb.,

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