Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 139 pages of information about Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch.

Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 139 pages of information about Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch.

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.

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