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10 ) ald, auld,, old, but rather from  alda,   of ǫld, , mankind; an age, used in the phrase “alda óðal (aldaóðal)”, odal possession in perpetuity. ali [āli], , young animal brought up in the house,  alidýr; also a weakly being .  , ,

ali [āli],, pet, that follows one about. From, ,  ali [ali]-grice,, pig reared or brought up in the house. alidýr,, tame animal; domestic animal (“alisvín”, domesticated pig).  alikadi [ā·likad·i (-käd·i)], domesticated lamb; orphan lamb, fostered or reared in the house. More rarely [ā·lakad·i]. — For - see above. — may also denote a petted child; a malicious fellow, and is doubtless the same word as “cadie”,, boy; young fellow; kate,, boy; little boy.  aliklover [ā·liklō·vər] and alikløvin [ā·liklø̄·vin],, sheep; lamb, one which is reared at home; tabu-word, used by the fishermen. For - see “”; for -, - (“hoofed animal”) see ,  alikrabb,, see alikrogi [ā·likrog·i],, a weakly animal, not able to stand the cold. For - see , animal which seeks shelter, which huddles itself up against bad weather (rain, cold); see further and , †alikruki [ā·likruk·i],, small univalve (buckie), narrower and with longer spiral or tail than the common so-called “grey buckie”. With, may be compared in the diminutive , small mussel, and  kræklingur  kræk- lingur, as well as krákuskel, a species of mussel, and with it might be reasonable to think of hali,, tail, on account of the long spiral of the shell. However, “alikruik” has been defined by van Dale as a small univalve, but by Sicherer and Akveld as a scallop.  alilam, ali-lamb [ā··lilam·], , lamb reared at home in winter. *ali-lamb; alilamb, , fatted lamb. -grice.   alipati [ā·lipā·ti] or -patti [-pat·i], , domesticated pig; sucking-pig, brought up in the house. For - see, , and “-grice”. ,, , = “pattegris”, sucking-pig.   aliplukkins [ā·liplok·ins], , wool plucked from the belly of a sheep (short and inferior wool). - is here an  of alisauðr,, sheep reared at home. For the second part of the and , allakrabb [aᶅ··akrab·, äᶅ··a-], , a variety of round or heart-shaped crab (narrowest in front), the back and legs of which are covered with short woolly hair, crab of the genus maja, spider-crab; generally found in sea-weed. Also called [al··ikrab·] and [jal··akrab·]. is also reported as the name of a species of fin-footed crab, swimming crab. The first part of the  an  *aðl-, the same word as adela, adel,, mud; dirt; uncleanliness, on acc. of the spider-crab’s dirty and disgusting appearance; for the forms alla-, ali-, jala- “al” in and   as a parallel form to “adel”, cow wash; liquid manure, and the bird-names alamuti and alan. alla-, ali-, jala- might, however, be explained from aðal,, as a first part in : head-, arch- ( older adelfalk,
 * ali-gríss;  alagris,, ;