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96 the same phenomenon is called “ [dāla]-reek”, really “dale-smoke”.

dala [dāla]-reek, dal [dāl]-reek, , 1) =, . 2) mist rising from low-lying, stagnant water (lakes-, ponds), spreading itself over the bottom of a valley. Other forms are: a) [dal··ari·],  an of “-reek”, and b)  [dålra]-mist, [dål··ərȯm·, dɔl··ərȯm·] . — *dal-(røykr), “dale-smoke”, dalrøyk (R. suppl.) = frostrøyk,, mist or fog rising from water during severely cold weather. — The form may have arisen under influence of the word , [dål··ərȯms·, dål··dərȯms· dɔl··-], , = doldrums,

dali [dāli],, see , 3.

dali$w$,, see $1$,

dali$1$,, see $2$,

dalibrod [dal··ibråd·],, see .

dalk [da‘lk], djalk [dja‘lk (dᶎa‘lk)], , 1) to walk heavily as if wading, to geng ; In in the form  [tᶊa‘lk] by hardening of  [dᶎ] to  [tᶊ]; te geng, a) = to geng , (see above); b) to walk with soaking-wet feet, with water oozing from one’s shoes, with transition to meaning 3. 2) to stride; swagger; to geng ; 3) to make a gurgling, slightly splashing sound, as a stroke with anything wet; only noted down in  in the form  [tᶊa‘lk]; a  soond, a gurgling or slightly splashing sound, caused by giving a stroke with something wet. — On  a form  [dᶎå‘lk] is found in the sense of to walk with soaking-wet feet, with water oozing from one’s shoes;  weet [‘wet’], with soaking-wet feet. —   dalka,, to dangle; bungle; mismanage; to soil with moist filth ( dálka); to give a slight stroke with something soft and wet; also to saunter. —  ,

dalslag [däᶅ·ᶊlāg·],, depression in the sea-bottom, fishing-ground with poor, soft (muddy, sandy) bottom; to fa’ upon [‘fall on’, to come upon] a d. (in fishing). dalslage (dal-slage),, a small, low valley., , soft, damp hollow.

dammen(s) [damən(s)],, a ledge caused by a landslide on a steep slope, near the coast; a i’ de banks, a green d. As a place-name, in: de o’, de o’  , steep stretch of coast with ledges caused by landslides. The plural -s in place-names has found its way into the form in the language. The word is dammr,, dam, in an older sense: “mound, bank”. is found, in the sense of bank, in [kaldər dam] , the name of a steep, rocky bank of a stream. “Dam” in Scottish place-names, Starry Dam (H. Maxwell, Topography of Galloway) in the sense of lake-shore.

†damp [da‘mp],, end; the lower end of a fishing hand-line or long-line; ; of an end-piece in general. Tabu-word, used by fishermen at sea. Of fairly origin.;, and  tamp, , a piece of a rope. dampur, , end of a long-line (Svabo), is certainly a word borrowed from

†damp [da‘mp],, to wear off the end of a fishing hand-line or long-line; de line is (dampet op), the end has been torn off the hand-line. Sometimes in a wider sense: to break or tear off the