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— *hvisla. Sw. hvissla, Da. hvisle, vb., to whistle; No. kvisla, vb., to ripple swiftly; Icel. hvissa, vb., to rush; whistle. Cf. hwist², sb. and vb.

hwiss, sb. and vb., see kwiss, vb.

hwist¹, hwest, sb., see twest, sb.

hwist² [(hwɩst, hwest) hwəst], sb., whistling or sharp wind, draught; der’r a cauld [‘cold’] h. aboot de doors (the outer door). Fe. The word is derived from *hvis- and to be classed with hwisl. Cf. Icel. hviss, n., rush, whistle, and Sw. dial. hvisp, m., violent squall of wind.

hwist [hwɩst (hwest, hwəst)], vb., esp. of a sharp, drying wind or draught: to whistle; to blow; de wind ’ll h. t’rough it (Y^b.: hwɩst). Icel. hvissa, vb., to rush; whistle. See the preceding word, and cf. hwisl, vb.

hwisterester [hwɩs·təres·tər], sb., a crack; blow; box on the ear. Fe. Prob. for *hwister-hester, the second part of which then is O.N. hestr, m., = kinnhestr, m., box on the ear. For the first part of the compd. see hwist², sb., hwist, vb., and hwistikaster, sb.

hwistikaster [hwɩs··tikas·tər], sb., a crack; a sudden, violent blow or push. Fe. Doubtless gust of wind; see above hwist², sb. and hwist, vb.

hwitel, sb., see hwetel, sb.

hwitn, hwiten [hwɩtən, hwetən, hwətən], vb., to whiten, to become white or light-coloured; esp. of growing corn; de corn is hwittend [hwɩtənd] by sea or blast (Du.). O.N. hvítna, vb., to become white. — The form “hwäitən”, Eng. whiten, vb., has a more extended meaning and application in Shetl.

hwoli, sb., see hwelji, sb.

*hwols, sb., see *hols, sb.

hwolsben [hwȯ‘lsben, hwə‘lsben], sb., vertebra of the neck or occipital bone, reported in sense of: a)

the foremost articulation of the neck of an animal, esp. a sheep; also hwolsaben [(hwȯ‘l··saben·) hwə‘l··saben·]. Lunn. b) with dropped initial h: wolsben [wȯ‘lsben], neck-bone in fish. Fo. *hálsbein; O.N. halsbein, n., vertebra of the neck, occipital bone. See *hols, sb.

hwom(b)l, vb., see hwuml, vb.

*hworm, vb., 1) vb. a., to turn; wind; twist. 2) vb. n., to turn, wind, twist oneself. Only reported in the form gworm [gwȯrm] from Sa. on Wests.; de eel was gwormd doon i’ de sand, the eel had wound itself down into the sand or lay coiled up, buried in the sand; de eel gwormd roond my finger, the eel twisted itself round my finger. — Doubtless either the same word as hwerm², hwirm (hwerv), vb., or closely cognate with this word, which is classed partly with O.N. hverfa, vb., to turn round, to rotate, partly with Da. dial. (Jut.) hvirme, vb., to whirl. With regard to the change hv > gw, Shetl. Norn has only this example. In certain Norw. dials. (in the south and east of Norway) a change hv > gv is found, and in some Sw. dials. a change hv > gw.

†hwuml, hwumel [hwoməl], vb., to turn upside down; to turn a hollow object bottom up, e.g. a vessel; bucket; a boat; to h. a boat. Also a) hwombl, hwombel [hwȯmbəl], hwumbl, hwumbel [hwombəl]: Uⁿ.; b) kuml, kumel [koməl]. — Prop. to arch, and developed from O.N. hvelfa, vb., used exactly in the same sense as the word in Mod. Shetl.; hvelfa skipi, báti. hwuml from *hwulm, *hwolm for *hwulv, *hwolv; the metathesis of l and m probably first took place in the past tense, and the past participle: hwumeld for *hwulmd. For the final m cf. e.g. hwerm², hwirm, vb.