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kongel [kɔŋgəl (kåŋgəl)], sb., 1) a piece of dough made into a brøni or circular, thick cake (barley- or oat-cake), raw brøni. Nm. 2) a small piece of peat (piece of burning peat). U.? Edm.: “kongl, a piece of burning peat”. Fær. kongul, m., a small piece of peat. No. kongul (East Norw.), m., kongla, f., Sw. dial. kangel, m., a fir-cone, “kongul” also means a cluster of berries (West Norw.). See the preceding word, and konglalavin, sb. The root-meaning of the word is doubtless lump. For the relation between the two different meanings of kongel cf. the relation between Shetl. bogel, sb., and Ork. boglo, sb.

kongi [kɔŋgi], sb., sea-snail, spiral-formed shell. Y^h., Fe. No. kong, m., and Icel. kongur (fjörukongur), m., sea-snail.

konglalavin [koŋ·glalā·vin], sb., = kongel, sb. 1 (a piece of dough made into a brøni). Nm. For the second part see lavin, sb.

konk, konki (kjonki), sb., illness, a very bad cold, see kunki, sb.

konn, vb., to become acquainted or familiar with something (a place), to become accustomed to a haunt, esp. referring to cattle, kept in a certain pasture, in order to get them accustomed to the place. Only reported in the form kodn, kodden [kȯdən] from Sandness on Wests. “keep de coo dere, untill shø koddens”, keep the cow there till she gets familiar with or used to the said pasture. — O.N. kynnask, vb. refl., to become acquainted, to make acquaintance with someone or something (kunnr, adj., known); No. kynna, vb., to let a person get familiar with one, and kynnast, vb. refl., to make oneself familiar (with someone). — In the Shetl. verb the i-mutation is dropped. Change of nn to dn, especially prominent in

the Foula dialect, has formerly been common on the greater part of Westside (Sa., W., Ai^w., St^w., Foula and Papa). Examples of the changes ll > dl, nn and rn > dn, on Wests., are found in Introd. V (also N.Spr. VII), § 42; note further the Foula forms, such as kidn- from kinn- (O.N. kinn, f., the cheek), and in the Hildina ballad (Foula ballad), e.g. kadn from O.N. kann, can, 3rd pers. sing. of kunna, vb. In Norn ^a)ll and ^b)nn, rn, are found as ll and nn respectively in the other parts of Shetland, often (esp. in the N.I.) with softened, palatal pronunciation.

konn, adj., acquainted with; familiar with; accustomed to, esp. referring to cattle having become accustomed to a certain pasture. Only reported from Sa., Wests., in the form kodn, kodden [kȯdən]. “de coo is no k. yet”, the cow is not yet accustomed to the pasture. O.N. kunnr, adj., a) known; b) familiar (with), being acquainted with or having knowledge of. For the change nn > dn in Shetl. Norn on Wests. see under the preceding word.

*konnmerki [kɔⁱn·mæ‘r·ki, kȯᶇ·mæ‘r·ki (kɔ̇ᶇ·-)], sb., a kind of cornworm (that creeps into the ears of corn, ruining them), zabrus gibbus. Y^h. *korn-maðkr, corn-worm. merki: derivative, with i-mutation, of older *mark, O.N. maðkr, m., maggot; worm. For the change ðk > rk cf. No. and Sw. dial. mark = makk, m., maggot; worm (Sw. literary lang.: mask). Another Shetl. name for the said worm is oks-worm, “ear (of corn)-worm”; q.v.

konta-plucker^{[errata 1]} [kɔ‘ᶇ··taplok·ər], sb., small marul (the angler), Lophius piscatorius. Uⁿ. — O.N. kunta, f. cunnus. See †plukker, sb.

†kop, sb., see kjob, sb.

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1. Correction: konta-plucker should be amended to konta-plucker: detail