UNFLECKIT, adj. unstained. Psalms, XXIV, 4. See fleckerit.
UNGANAND (g[-e]n.), adj. unfit, unprepared.
Douglas, II, 48, 16.
See ganand.
UNRUFE, sb. restlessness, vexation. Gol.
and Gaw., 499. See
rove, sb. Cp.
Norse uro, restlessness, noise, Dan. uro,
id.
UNSAUCHT, adj. disturbed, troubled. Gol.
and Gaw., II, 12. See
saucht.
UPBIGARE, sb. a builder. Winyet, II, 3,
4. See big. Cp. Norse
bygga up.
UPLOIP, vb. leap up. Montg., M.P., III,
33. See loup. On this
change of ou to oi
cp. the same word in Norse, laupa and
loipa.
VATH, WAITH, sb. danger. Bruce, V, 418;
Wallace, IX, 1737.
O.N._vaethi_, harm, mishap,
disaster, Dan. vaade, danger,
adversity, Sw. vade,
an unlucky accident, M.E. w[-a]þe,
peril. Does not seem
to exist in the modern diall.
VITTERLY, adv. certainly. Bruce, IV, 771;
X, 350. O.N. vitrliga,
wisely, Dan. vitterlig,
well-known, undoubted, M.E.
witerliche, certainly.
VYNDLAND, pr. p. whirling around. Bruce,
XVII, 721. O.N. vindla,
to wind up. Norse vindel,
a curl, anything twisted or wound.
Cu. winnel. Cp.
Dan. vindelbugt, a spiral twist. Skeat
cites provincial Eng. windle,
a wheel for winding yarn.
WAG, vb. to totter, walk unsteady. Dunbar,
120, 98. Norse,
vagga, to swing, rock,
sway, O.N. vaga, to waddle. See
further Skeat.
WAGGLE, vb. to wag, sway from side to side,
wabble. M.W., 16, 23;
51, 5. Sw. dial. vagla,
vackla, to reel, Norse vakla,
id. May be taken as a
Sco. frequentative of wag, q.v. Not to
be derived from the L.G. word.
Confined to the Scand.
settlements.
WAILIE, adj. excellent. Burns, 179, 2,
3, and 8, 7. See wale,
sb.
WAILIT, adj. choice, fashionable, excellent.
Rolland, I, 64. See
wail, vb.
WALE, vb. to select, choose. Douglas,
III, 3, 21; Dunbar, G.T.,
186. Probably from the
noun wale, choice. The vowel does not
correspond with that of the
O.N. vb. velja, which should
have become well.
But the forms dwall from O.N. dvelja,
and hale, O.N. hella,
appear in Sco. Wale may be a
formation analogous to hale.
WAITH, sb. the spoil of the chase or of fishing.
Wallace, I, 386.
O.N. vaeiethr, a catch
in hunting or fishing. Norse veidd,
the chase, veida, to
hunt. On Sco. faid, a company of
hunters. See I, Sec.22.