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Rh : partition of inheritance. — The form *arff is derived from arfr,, inheritance, *airff, *ayrffe either from “arfr” or from erfð, , succession to property; inheritance. In meaning 3, “airff” is an of  arfskipti,, partition of inheritance. airff 4, which can be accepted as an of *“airff-ting”, is doubtless a development from “airff 3” with which, in the phrases “to mak’ a., to had a.”, it is merged. — (Dennison) =  (i) 4. — *.  arg [arg],, 1) evil; bad; in this sense now certainly in only a few phrases; exclamations such as: dirt! damned dirt!  the under-mentioned derivatives and ,  2) desirous and eager; very desirous of something; by infinitive or upon; a. upon somet’in’;  argr, , evil; bad; sensual, ; with to meaning 2 of    arg,, which inter alia, can mean active.

arg [arg],, to talk ill-temperedly and hot-headedly; insist upon or contradict violently, of a hot-headed quarrel; dey [argət] de ane i’ de face o’ de tidder [‘the one in the face of the other’]. Partly arga,, to worry; excite; partly argue,  , crowd. Edm. has: “, a crowd, a multitude”. of, 1. passion; anger. Formed from ,, wicked; naughty, argur,, bad; ill-tempered. ari [ari],, in : , de o’ de tide, o’ de (beginning of ebb): the first slight movement of the tide after the turn. See, and ark [a‘rk],, chest; case, used of a heavily-built and big-boned animal, a great a. o’ a coo [‘cow’] or (heifer). ǫrk and arka,, chest; case; ark, , chest. arm [ārm],, tail-end; end, on a fishing hand-line. Tabu-word at sea. armr,, a) arm; b) extremity; extreme edge. arm, a part of the body, in is now called: airm [ærm, ǣrm]. — $n$ and ,
 * argeri [ar··gəri·],, angry, importunate
 * argosi [ar··gosi·],, malice;

arm [ārm],, poor; wretched; weakly and thin;  [ārmət] and [ārmin], a.-lookin’: in combination with “poor” in as: he’s nedder [‘neither’] puir [‘poor’] or, he is well off. armr, , poor; unhappy.
 * has a further use

arm [ārm],, of a wretched, emaciated being: to drag oneself along; to crawl about, to geng aboot; de sheep gengs aboot de dykes. Formed from, , influenced by the verbs and.  ar [ar]-tree,, 1) plough-beam; long-bar; the foremost part of a plough; , ; 2) a piece of wood which is nailed down on the fore-end of the plough-beam, and to which the traces are fastened; , *arðr-(tré); arðr,, plough. and.  arvek [arvək],, species of sea-bird, see further under , . preserved in the phrase “de a. o’ Norbi”, also called “de ’- hoose o’ Norbi”. ha’ [‘hall’]-hoose = large and high-class house. The house in question has now disappeared, but stood within living memory as a ruin ( to the judicial-register discarded as a dwelling-house before 1735). “arvhus” is mentioned by the late schoolmaster Rh
 * arvhus [ärvhus],, now only