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.

  (a).  The following words have in Sco. a W. Scand. meaning
  or are not found in Danish: 

    AIRT, to urge.  O.N. erta.  Not a Dan. word. 
    APERT, boldly.  O.N. apr.  Not Dan. 
    AWEBAND, a rope for tying cattle.  O.N. haband.  Meaning
      distinctively W. Scand. 
    BAUCH, awkward.  Not E. Scand. 
    BEIN, liberal.  Meaning is W. Scand. 
    BROD, to incite.  O.N. brodda, id.  Dan. brodde, means “to
      equip with points.” 
    BYSNING, monstrous.  O.N. bysna.  Not E. Scand. 
    CARPE, to converse.  Not E. Scand. 
    CHOWK, jawbone.  Rather W. Scand. than E. Scand. 
    CHYNGILL, gravel.  A Norse word. 
    DAPILL, gray.  A W. Scand. word. 
    DYRDUM, uproar.  W. Scand.  The word is also found in Gael. 
      Furthermore the form is more W. Scand. than Dan.  Cp. dyr and
      dor
    DOWLESS, worthless. Duglauss a W. Scand. word. 
    DUDS, clothes.  Not found in Dan. or Sw. 
    ETTLE, aim at.  W. Scand. meaning.  O. Dan. aetlae meant “ponder
      over.” 
    FARRAND, handsome.  This meaning is Icelandic and Norse. 
    FELL, mountain.  W. Scand. more than E. Scand. 
    GANE, be suitable.  O.N. gegna.  Vb. not found in Dan. 
    GYLL, a ravine.  O.N. gil.  Is W. Scand. 
    HEID, brightness.  O.N. haereth.  Icel. and Norse. 
    HOOLIE, slow.  O.N. hogligr.  Not in Dan. or Sw. 
    KENDILL, to kindle.  Ormulum kinndlenn is from O. Ic. kendill
      (Brate). 
    LIRK, to crease.  I have not found the word in E. Scand. 
    MELDER, flour.  O.N. meldr.  Is W. Scand., particularly Norse. 
    POCKNET, a fishnet.  O.N. p[-o]ki-net. Not Dan. 
    RAMSTAM, indiscreet, boisterous.  Both elements are W. Scand. 
    SCARTH, cormorant.  W. Scand. 
    TARN, a lake.  Distinctively Norse. 
    TYNE, to lose.  O.N. tyna.  Distinctively Norse. 
    WAITH, booty.  O.N. vaeiethr.  Icel. and Sondmore, Norway. 
    WARE, to spend.  N. verja.  W. Scand. 
    WICK, to cause to turn.  O.N. vikja.  Not Danish.

  (b).  The following words are W. Scand. in form: 

    BOLAX, hatchet.  O.N. boloex.  The O. Dan. word has the vowel u,
      buloex
    BOWN, O.N. buinn, cp. grouf < grufu; bowk < bukr;
      stroup < strjupr; dowless < duglauss, etc.  The O. Dan.
      word was boin.  The form in Orm. is b[-u]n, a Norse
      loanword. 
    BUSK, to prepare, has W. Scand. reflexive ending sk
    BUTH, O.N. bueth.  The O. Dan., O. Sw. vowel was o, boeth and
      bodh, so in modern Dan. diall.  In Norse diall. it is u
    CAPPIT shows W. Scand. assimilation

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