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150 the fish takes the bait willingly; der’r nae [‘no’] upo de fish, the fish will not take the bait. 2) a o’ fish (,, = coalfish, ), in boat-fishing: a shoal of fish, many of which take the bait willingly. With to  1,  eta,, partly = aata, , eating, (Aa. and R.), and with to 2,  aata,, in sense of a shoal of small fish, small shoal of herrings (R.);  át, , eating, and áta, , a) eating; b) food, of a shoal of small creatures serving as food for whales and fish.

et$n$ [ɛt, et],, agitation; excited state of mind; to be in a ower onyting [: ɛt]; fidgety eagerness or haste; to be in a or “cat’s ” [: et], in a aboot somet’in’. The word is most to be referred to at,, agitation; incitement, and to etja,, to agitate; goad; irritate.

et [et (ēt), ē$n$t],, 1) commonly with a short e [et]: to eat, = eta, de fish is no , the fish will not bite .  [etɩn], , is used in the sense of edible, like  etande,  and  etandi. “ taatis”, potatoes which have grown large enough to be dug up for eating . 2) In  with the  [ɔp],  [et (ēt), ē$2$t] is used in a  sense: to penetrate; worry, to cause great vexation, malice, envy, sordidness, in someone; dat him (dat him ), that makes him vexed (cross, malicious, envious), see , In meaning 2 mostly [etən ɔp] or [ɔp·et·ən, -ē$n$·tən], filled with anger, malice, envy, sordidness, ; he is just op wi’ ill [‘bad’] nature, wi’ greed; aboot onyting, very vexed, angry, about something. With 2   eta, , in sense of ''to gnaw; grieve,. [sic]''

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 * et [et], numeral, one; see

etel [ɛtəl, ætəl],, a) a hard lump, a gland in the body; b) a hard spot in a stone. More in the form. eitill, eitil, eitel,  ettel,, a gland; hard lump.   and ,

eter [etər],, venom; poison, a) cancer; b) bitter cold, a e. o’ cauld [‘cold’], a cauld e.; a e. o’ wadder, bitterly cold weather. eitr,, venom; bitter cold, See $ə$, —  = $n$ 2. — [et··ərkap·],, a) a large spider; b) poison from a spider ; c) a malicious (unreasonable, quarrelsome) person ( of a fellow), is attircop, attercap, ettercap. Though the word is found in  dialects (etterkoppa, -kopp) and in  (edderkop), it is hardly of Norn  in, but is borrowed from  It does not appear in  (is not found in Aa. and R.), nor in the literature ( kǫngurváfa,, a spider; forms of this word are found in and dialects).

eterfrod [et··ərfrō$ə$d·],, bubble of foam on the grass in the hill-pasture, containing an insect; ‘venomous foam’; cuckoo-spit..
 * eitrfroða. See further $ə$, 2.

eterskab [et··ərskab·] and eterskop [et··ərskop·],, 1) bitterly cold weather, freezing cold weather with sharp wind, a e. o’ cauld [‘cold’], a cauld e., — b. ,  also  [et··ərskæb·] . *eitrskapr.   eitrkaldr, , freezing cold. 2) a) a fretful, cross person; : ; b) impudent, free-spoken person who is always stirring up strife; a person always talking out of due time; of eitr,, venom, also
 * . *eitrskapr;