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LXI
INTRODUCTION
LXI

brind1, vb.: No. brunda (Da. brynde).

bødi2, bøti (a strip of land) = No. bot, f., a small piece of a field.

Words without i-mutation:

andu, vb. [*andœfa].

afljud, vb. [af-*lýta].

bjokl, sb.: O.N. bœxl, n. (bjokl, sb.: *bygl?).

brodd, vb.: O.N. brydda, (brodd through influence of the substantive).

buks, vb.: O.N. byxa, No. byksa, vb.

djur1, sb., animal: O.N. dýr (in O.Norw. also djúr).

djur2, sb., excellent fellow: O.N. dýrr, adj., dear, valuable, costly.

dolek, sb.: O.N. dæla, No. dæla, f.

doli, sb.: O.N. dæl, f. (No. døl).

dollek2, sb., may, acc. to the pronunc. “dȯᶅək”, be either *dull- or *dyll-.

dudla, sb. (Fo.): No. and Fær dylla (No. dull, dyll, m.).

flog3 [fᶅōg, fᶅog], fljog, also flug, fljug, fljuk, fluch, vb., to clean thrashed, dried corn by flinging it out of one’s hand: O.N. fløygja, to let fly. The Shetl. forms spring from the root-form fljúga, vb., to fly.

fluder (flodrek2), sb.: *flyðr(a).

flukra (flokra), sb.: *flykra.

fradin, sb.: O.N. fretr.

fudin, sb., “light-foot”, cat (tabu-name), *fótingr for *føtingr.

fuglekavi, sb., snow-storm: *fyklikafi (No. fykla, fyklesnjova, vb.).

hottena, hottin, hoittin, etc., adj., accomplished; concluding; last; finished, to be classed with O.N. hætta, vb., to cease; stop. O.Shetl.: *hátta.

lor, sb., the thigh, O.N. lær.

lorin, sb., the great cormorant: *læringr. The Shetl. form presupposes a *láringr.

lung, sb., heather, now comm.: ling, but u is preserved in the compds. lungkillin and lungklo, as well as in various place-names.

*moliskop from *málingskaup = *mælingskaup.

nomen, adj.: *náminn = *næminn, No. næmen (O.N. næmr, adj.).

ro3, sb., carcass, O.N. hræ. The Shetl. form presupposes a *hrá.

rori (brori), ro, scarecrow, O.N. hræða, f. The Shetl. forms spring from a *hrað-.

*snolda [snålda], prop. a spindle, now the name of high, narrow rocks (sea-rocks), a form without i-mutation [*snálda], from O.N. snælda, a spindle.

sodi1, sb., a seat: O.N. sæti, n. O.N. sát, f., has a different sense.

de Trimolins (place-name, piece of a field in Fe.): No. trimæling. The Shetl. form presupposes a *þrímálingr.