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Rh mould and cover the seed; an old straw-basket or a piece of one, containing a turf or some earth, was mostly used for this purpose. *aptr- or *aptan-slóði. aptr and aptan,, behind; at the back of; slóði,, a sort of brushwood-harrow (bundle of branches or twigs bound together and dragged over the field, to crush and spread the manure, laid on this); somewhat similar is  slode, , slóði,, basket for carrying manure into the field. ,  attavelta [at·avɛ‘ᶅ·ta], attavelt [at··avæ‘lt·], attivelt, -velti [a‘t··ivɛ‘lt·, a‘t·ivæ‘l·ti],, ground (field) recultivated after having lain fallow for some time, field in its second year of cultivation after fallowing. The forms given are distributed over the foll, localities: attavelta ,, attavelt , attivelti and -velt,  [at··afeld·] and [at··ifeld·] are more used, in : [at··ifel(d)s·]. the forms “a$s$t··ifel(d)s·, äi··təfels·”, from “atfeld” and “aƫ··afeld·” besides “attafeld”. [ɔt··afeld·]: -, written field and now partly pronounced “fild”, usually accepted as field. — *aptr-velta, soil turned over and prepared anew. For the second part of the velta,, turned-over soil; ploughed strip of land, and velta,, piece of land dug over with a spade. See, , , and ,  behind, aptan. Only handed down in the old riddle (from Unst) of the cow: comes a. , one (= the tail) comes dangling behind. From in the form [ȯita], influenced by the “droita” in the same riddle. See Introd., riddles, also N.Spr. pp. 17—18. attikassen [at··ikas·ən],,  cast off; rejected, now generally stupid; foolish; helpless, of men and animals, a puir [‘poor’] a. ting. *aptr-kastaðr, thrown back; rejected; kasta aptr,, to reject; throw away, ; kasta attur, to reject; disdain. attikast [at··ikast·],, queer, foolish and helpless person, scum, a puir [‘poor’] a. *aptr-kast, something cast away or rejected; aptrkast,, is handed down in the sense of resistance; adversity. See ,  attri [atri, äƫri] and atteri [at··əri·, äƫ··əri·],  and, see    av,, see , avbregget [av·bræg·ət],, of ear-mark on sheep: marked anew, altered on the sheep’s changing owners. *afbregðaðr, from an *af-bregða, , to alter (a sheep-mark), from bragð, , in the sense of sheep-mark; see further (d), and  as well as, For the weak form and bregdaður as well as bregdad (in only the strong participial form “brugðinn” is found). avel [avəl, (āvəl)],, to walk feebly and totteringly = , ,   *avl- through *aɯl- from *aml-. for the phonetic development, gaɯli (ɯ = m pronounced without closing the lips and approaching to w or v), parallel form to “gamli” (the old). See , avnet [āvnɛt],, in fishery, herring-fishery, with nets: small net (similar to a trout-net), by which a man, the so-called, catches the fish (herrings) falling or slipping out of the net. Also :
 * attifelds. From we have
 * atte [atə], adv., at the back of;
 * austerco(u)p, see *.
 * bregðaðr the  forms breg(ð)aður