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140 neighbouring [mēves grɩnd] from *mæfeiðs grind, which marks the boundary between and ; *mæf-eið, "the narrow neck of land” ( mær, mæf-, parallel form to mjór, mjár,, slender). Through the older forms “Mæfeid, Mæveid, Mawed” are found; hence the name of the parish “Northmavine” [nå‘rt·mē·vən], older: firer nordhan Mæfeid, for nordan Mawed, Norden Mæveid [*fyrir norðan mæfeið]. See Sh. Stedn. pp. 88-89. — Besides *  a form, not yet obs., is found in  (,  in ; ),  or  [jē, jɛ̄, jǣ] in a somewhat sense, : shoal; extensive bank in the sea, forming a way of communication at low-water; see ,

eder$w$ [ēdər, ē$1$dər; edər],, 1) venom; poison; , in several senses, such as: sharp, acrid fluid; cancer; bitter cold, a e. o’ cauld [‘cold’]; evil speech, to spit e.; More : and ,   as the first part in various  2) a bubble of foam like a clot of spittle, containing an insect; to be seen in the grass in the outfields, in autumn, and said to be poisonous and harmful to cattle; : [ēdər, ē$ə$dər]; also -spittle and , ; in Mainland : , see $h$, —  eitr,, venom; poison, also inter alia: bitter cold; enmity.

eder$ə$ [ēdər],, denotes certain, partly mythical fish. Appears really ( to a description from of the rows of scales on the fish) to mean weaver-fish, trachinus (thus,  , and ), and is, in that case, doubtless an of an old *eitr-fiskr (venomous fish, poisonous fish); eit(e)rfisk,, weaver-fish, trachinus draco (said to have poisonous R.). Nowadays most often means a kind of mythical fish, feared by fishermen, as it is said to be able to perforate their boats when at sea (thus in the ). The phrase “to fly like a(n) ”, to make rapid headway, is used in several places, on and in the  From ,, “” is reported as a name for the sea-serpent, and in is  used (by elderly fishermen) as a name for the lamprey. In the two latter cases, the word appears to be a (?) form of adder in the  “sea-adder”, used of the fish, the fifteen-spined stickleback. also adder-pike = trachinus vipera.

edjek (idjek) [edᶎək],, an eddy, branch from a main current; at the turn of the tide: a smaller current, running before the proper tide sets in. Norwick,  iða, , an eddy, backward-running current, separating from the main current in a watercourse. ,


 * ednin,, see ,

ee [i̇̄],, is ee, eye, but is used in in various meanings from the old, , , eye, and somewhat from , thus: 1) a small, roundish hollow; pool of water; auga,, a) an eye; b) a hole; hollow; small swamp, ;  auga, , a) an eye; b) a pool of waler (in place-names), eyga,, a) an eye; b) a small hollow; peat-pit. * (eye) is found in as a place-name in the sense of a puddle: de o’ de . 2) two braided lengths of straw in a plaited straw-basket, = $h$; de “een” o’ de = de o’ de kessi. — “ee” is used in sense of the central part of anything, de ee o’ de or  (set, skor = fishing-ground).

efald,, [sic], see ,

efter [æfter],, after, eptir, efter, eftir, as well as “after”.