(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