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168 by the latter word. See, , and ,

fismel [(fɩzməl) fezməl] and fisment [(fɩsmənt) fesmənt],, a small part of something, particle; dey’re [‘they have’] no [‘not’] left a o’ it (: fezməl); a  o’ meal, sugar, tea,,  and fisma,, of something thin, and too fine (thin material), fismen, , very supple, thin, fine. — is formed with the derivative ending “-el”;, on the other hand, is formed similarly to words ending in -ent (-ment) as “fragment”.
 * [fɩsməl and pesməl].

fisp [fisp, fɩsp],, a person tripping about lightly, applied to elderly people. See further ,

fisp [fisp, fɩsp],, 1) to trip lightly and nimbly, but feebly about, of elderly people not decrepit with age; a braw body [‘person’] (  often appears as an adjective in sense of light, nimble, but feeble), 2) to work the line backwards and forwards in order to make the water foamy, in fly-fishing; as : to f. de water. — for an older that case, a of, , to trip (see ), fippa,, to grip with one’s finger-tips; for the suffix  fjapsa,, to grip a little ata time, (R.), partly = fippa.
 * by metathesis of p and s; in

fispen [fispən, fɩspən],, light and nimble, but feeble, of elderly people; a f. body (person). ? see , Might be an older *fipsinn; fjappen,, light; ninɩblenimble [sic], with the fjaps-.

fist,, see ,

fister, fisterment,, in swearing, in the : “ill f.!”; see ,

fisti [fisti]-ba’,, a fungus-ball, filled with powder, ( to Edm.: Agaricus campestris). fisball, , = fissopp, puff-ball (Lycoperdon Bovista), fisebolle  and (after ) “bofist”, ; físisveppur, físibjölgur. For the form -  físt and fist (bofist),, puff-ball; t in - (fisti-ba) may from  ( and  fist). “ba’” in “-ba” is the form of  ball; the thus corresponds to “fisball” and “fisebolle”. The form  is found in the place-name. — fusti [fusti]-ba’ is found as a parallel form to “fistiba”’ ( in ).

fit [fit],, to potter about doing some work without strength or energy, to geng aboot, to aboot de wark [‘work’]. is the root in fitla,, to touch lightly — see further, ,

†fitgeng [fətgæŋ],, cattle-track. - is fit,, a foot. fótganga,, walking on foot. fitgang (a small patch of ground; a long, narrow chest) deviates in meaning from the word.

fitj [fɩtᶊ (fətᶊ)],, to plait or twist into each other, straw bands; to f. a chair, to fix net-work under the seat of a chair, to f. a peg, to fix net-work round a jar, to f. a roof, a hoose, to thatch a house (really to twist straw-bands round a stack of grain (, ). In the word is used in a special meaning, : in the “to f. ”, really to twist a bearing-band ( = carrying-band on a basket, ), now only in a sense of two persons who, carrying peats, meet each other repeatedly, the one with an empty (basket) on his back, the other with a full one, exchange their  and