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(Stenhus, Esh., Nm^w.). — O.N. kelda, f., a) a source, well; b) swamp; morass.

kelek [kēlək, kē^ələk], sb., narrow trench, gutter for carrying off waste water (a gutter in the floor leading the water out beneath the outer wall of a house). Fe^e. kela [kēla] is found as a place-name: de Kela (Sa.), a narrow strait between “de holm o’ Melbi” and the opposite mainland. — O.N. keila, f., a fissure (strait); No. keila, f., a channel, a narrow sound.

kelli, killi [keᶅɩ], sb., the gull, esp. the three-toed gull, larus tridactylus. U. An onomatopoeic word; see kall, vb.

*kellin, sb., see kerlin, sb.

kelmin, sb., see kilmin, sb.

kelpa-, kelper- and kelpinsten, sb., see kilper- and kilpinsten.

kelva [kɛlva] and kelvek [kɛlvək], sb., a well-developed, not quite half-grown ling. Conn. kelva, esp. in the expr. “k. olek” (olek, a small ling), is O.N. kefli, n., a cylindrical piece of wood. kelvek may be either “kefli” or a derivative “*keflingr, *keflungr”. For the use of the Shetl. form of words, cf. No. kjevling, m., a) a small cylinder or (thick) stick; b) a half-grown boy or girl, and kjevlungseid, m., a medium-sized coalfish. Cf. drølin, welsi and veltrin, sbs.

kem, kaim, kame [kem, ᶄem], vb., applied to sea, waves: to rise, to form a crest of foam, see kom(b), vb.

kemp, vb., see kepp, vb.

keng [kɛŋ, keŋ], sb., a clamp by which something is fastened; see king, sb.

kengsi [ᶄe‘ŋsɩ (ᶄe‘ŋksɩ, kje‘ŋsɩ)] and kensi [ᶄe‘nsɩ (kje‘nsɩ)], sb., a small cod, which, after the entrails have been removed, is filled with fish-livers and grilled; liver-k. Fo.

kengsi, kensi, may have arisen through a later developed i-mutation from an older *kangs, *kans = *kams; cf. No. kams (and partly “kangs”), m., a kind of bun or cake, made from fish-liver and meal, kamshovud, n., fish’s head filled with kams and boiled, Fær. kamshøvd, n. Sw. dial. kings, kinns, m., lump; knot, approximates more closely to the Shetl. word in form and pronunciation.

kenn [kɛn, ken], vb., 1) to know; 2) to be aware of; 3) to feel, to be sensible of; in all these senses syn. with O.N. kenna, vb., and in the senses 2 (and 3) also with O.N. vita. I kennt it on me, I had a presentiment of it; O.N. kenna á sér, to have a feeling of. In senses 1 and 2, the word assimilates to Eng. dial. and L.Sc. ken, vb. de sea kenns in it [‘itself’], commotion in the sea along the shore, foreboding an approaching storm (Y^h.), = Fær. sjógvurin “veit í”; Fær. vita í, to indicate, forebode, esp. appl. to weather.

kennin [kenɩn, kenin], sb., 1) a feeling; sensation. 2) identification; recognition; also in pl.: kennins. 3) knowledge (about something), knowledge (of something); k. aboot or o’ somet’in’. Assimilates in all three senses to O.N. kenning, f. L.Sc. kennin, sb., knowledge; acquaintance.

kennmark [kenma‘rk], sb., identification mark, esp. on an animal. Y^h. O.N. kennimark, n., identification mark.

kent [kɛ‘nt], adj., properly perf. part. of kenn, vb., partly 1) well known; partly 2) skilful (at something), well acquainted (with something). No. kjend, L.Sc. kent, perf. part. and adj., id.

†keper [kepər, ᶄepər]-corner, adverbially in the phrase “to cut (or