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18 Robert Jamieson, Sandness, with the explanation: “head-bøl or principal house of an udaler, mansion-house”. Edmondston in his Glossary mentions “aairvhous” with the explanation “the place of meeting appointed by the Foud general or chief governor”. This last vague explanation presupposes house wherein the probate-court or the court for the partition of an inheritance was held — see *, *, meaning 4, and the “airff-house of Norbie” mentioned thereunder. Barclay gives in his suppl. to Edm. “arv-house”: “a house adjudged to belong to one of the heirs of the deceased”. The word appears thus to have been used in a double sense, partly in the original sense: the dwelling-house of a udaler, legally inherited by one of his sons; partly in a later and derived sense: a house in which the partition of inheritance is made or a probate-court is held. *arff, *airff. The name “Arv-hus Inn” in cannot be taken notice of here, as having an etymological connection, since it is quite modern (former name Hogster). arvi$1$ [arvi],, chickweed (plant), Alsine media, Stellaria media. and “arve”,  arv, arvi,, arfi, ,
 * arf-hús; arfr,, inheritance,

arvi$2$ [arvi],, end; piece of a broken fishing hand-line or long-line, de lous a. Tabu-word, used by fishermen at sea. From Walls we have “de lous a.”, used of the piece of the line which on breaking was lost in the sea; from , on the contrary, of that piece of the line which was hauled into the boat when the lower portion was lost. — perhaps for *armi, *arm-ie, and, in that case, the same word as, , end of a fishing hand-line; asek [aᶊək],, a closely woven straw-basket, for taking the ashes from the fire-place. askr,, small vessel; box; ask, , asel$h$ [asəl],, 1) cold and keen wind, a a. o’ wind, a cauld [‘cold’] a.; 2) a laborious battling against the wind; I’m had a heavy a., I have had a hard struggle, strong contrary wind.  as, asveder,, gale of wind, rough weather, asa, , a) to storm; blow; b) to be tumbled about; move with difficulty; exert oneself,  ase. $1$ and .

asel$2$ [asəl],, in the phrase “upo de a.”, in uneasy movement; eagerly on the look-out for something. from *as- ( asa,, to storm; blow; riot; aseim and asn, , breathless, excited hurry) and therefore actually the same word, or of the same origin, as $2$. ask [ask, āsk],, l) haze; mist; bank of fog, a a. upo de land , der’r [‘is’] a a. lyin’ ower de land . of mist or banks of fog in the sky betokening wind, a windy a. More rarely, cold wind, coming from such a mist or such banks of fog, a cauld [‘cold’] a. . 2) drizzle; fine rain; fine flakes of snow; thus Edm. ; now certainly rare in this sense, which however is confirmed by the underquoted “ask” and “askregn”. — ăsk and āsk: , (and ): otherwise : ăsk. — Seeing that the word is sometimes found in the form “hask” with the derivative “haski (hoski)”, , hazy, grayish (of weather), it might be thought to be an original grayish, haze,, but it is most probably to be associated with aska,, ashes, the root-meaning of which doubtless is dust;
 * hask, cognate with hǫss, ,