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Rh ( for fishing, field-work, spring- or harvest-work). of ,

døs [døs], and, = , and ;

†Døt [døt],, in the phrase “de man upo D.”, used of a person whom, during conversation, one wants to refer to without mentioning his name: “him you know”,   , ,, , (under ).

  eart’-fast [æ‘rt··fast·],, fixed in the earth, of a stone: e.-f. , = jarðfastr, j. steinn. See ,

ebb [ɛb, æb],, not only = ebb, but denotes also foreshore, that part of the shore overflowed at flood-tide and left dry at ebb. to geng to de e., to go to the shore (the rocks) to gather limpets, patella, for bait. In, fjara, , is partly a) ebb, partly b) foreshore, dry at ebb.

ebbmidder [ɛb··mıd·ər, æb··-], , 1) a very heavy wave, running farther up the shore than the rest. 2) a very heavy current or eddy, caused by the ebb; ; Esp. used of the heavy current (eddy) in Yell Sound, between Yell and Northmavine. 3) a large stone on the sea-shore (see -, ). — an anglicised form from an old Norn word *fjǫru-móðir. For “ebb” = foreshore, beach, see ; “midder” [ form of  mither, mother] is frequently used of something unusually large, and in like manner “moder” is sometimes used, see further “midder”,  For ebbmidder 1  grunnmoder,, in sense of: the largest of a series of billows.

ebb-pikker [ɛb··pık·ər, æb··-], , purple sandpiper, sea-fowl, = fjørepist, fjøretit, ( fjøra,, ebb, foreshore), and ,  See ,

ebb-sleeper,, a species of sea-fowl, = ebb- (see  ) and “ebb- b (c?)” (see below),, to Edm., = “plover-page”, “dunlin”. ,

ebb-snippek [ɛb··snıp·ək, æb··-], , reported as a name for the wading-birds, sea-fowl: a) turnstone; b) dunlin; c) sandpiper, “purple sandpiper”. *(fjǫru-) snípa. See ,

ebb-sten [ɛb··sten·, æb·-æb··- [sic]],, a stone on the sea-shore, — fjǫru-steinn (from fjara b; see, ). Sometimes the, “ebb-stens”, is used in sense of sea-shore.

land; narrow strip of land between two seas (firths), eið,  As a place-name (name of a village)  is found in several places. [ēð]: The word is still partly remembered in in its  meaning, but is elsewhere quite As the first part of a in place-names, pronounced “ē, ɛ”, E(d) [ēstər] : E(d) [ēsten, ēstən], name of a parish : *eiðs-þing; , [ɛfert] : *eið-fjǫrdr (really name of a firth, now name of a village). More rarely used as the second part of a, and then in the form “e (ē)” or quite dropped (after a vowel); thus: [brē], older -e [brē-ē, brē-e], now name of a village, from *breið-eið, “the broad neck of land”, opposite to the
 * ed [ēd],, an isthmus; neck of
 * eið-setr; E(d) [ēsnes] : *eiðsnes;