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Rh is now more common than “ (gald)-knot”; b) a g. tief, a wicked, confirmed thief (?). — “gäil” is another form of pronunciation, developed from “gäᶅ”. — gallharðr,, hard as a stone, as well as gald, , and galdr, , hard, trampled snow,  gald, , hard or trampled ground,

galti [ga‘lti (g$i$a‘lti, gä‘ᶅti)], , properly a hog (castrated boar); now only as a nickname ( tabu-name, sea-term) or a pet-name for a pig, fatted pig. In various forms: a) :  [ga‘lti]; and  [ga‘lti];,  [g$w$a‘lti]; [gä‘ᶅti] (in   as a cry when calling the pig; see below “golti”); b) :  [gȯ‘ᶅti]; and [gȯ‘ᶅti];  [gȯ$i$‘lti, gȯ‘ᶅti]; [go‘lti, gȯ‘ᶅti]; [gå‘lti, gå‘lte]; c) : [gȯ‘ᶅt]. From  is reported also as a tabu-name, sea-term for cod; in   is used of a stupid person,  as an abusive term: stupid g.! —  galti, galtr and gǫltr,, a hog. — In sense of hog,  [gât, gāt] = gaut is now most  used. “gaat”, however, is found,  in the  in a special Norn sense, : grassy clod of earth, accidentally sliced by the scythe in mowing (= $n$). With the latter,  galte,, in sense of ground unmarked by the plough (R.), gras-galte, a small grass-plot in an arable field (Aa.). —  and  are found in  as place-names, in names of skerries: a) de Galti [gä‘ᶅti] (Øja, ); Fedderagalti [fɛd·əragä‘ᶅ·ti] or Galtistakk [ga‘l··tistak·], a skerry near the headland “de Fedder [fɛdər]”, west of the entrance to “Rønis Vo” ; Krabben Galti [krabən gä‘ᶅti] ; Galtastakk [ga‘l··tastak·] ; b) de Gaat (, Vidlin Voe, ), de Gaat o’ Broch, de Gaat o’ Skellister — a skerry  at the edge of the water. c) gait-, - is found as the name of a hill, in the  “Golthul [gȯ‘ᶅtol]” (de Hogan o’ Fogrigert, ): *galt-hóll. galt(e), used as the name of a mountain or skerry (N.G. I, p. 23). — See ,

galtirigg [ga‘l··tirɩg·],, see ,

gam [gam],, to make fun; du ’s [‘you are’] noo. gama,, to amuse, gamast, to joke.   game,

gamari [gā·mari̇̄·],, wild, noisy mirth; loud talk and laugtherlaughter [sic]; to had [‘hold’] or mak’ a g., to make noisy mirth, indulge in jesting. . . A , the first part of which is gaman, , pleasure; amusement; the second part is  hríð, , onset, attack,.

down in the phrase, “g. øl”, old ale. * [gambli] and *, the form in the masculine ( gamli) in a song (sea-song) from in a repeated line: or [ᶊagdə kåᶅə (kɔᶅə, kåᶅa) g.], : said the old man (fellow), sagði karlinn gamli. — In place-names the word is found in the form: de [gamla], also called by a more modern and translated name “de auld grund”, “the old ground”, a fishing-ground, visited by fishermen from Westing in Unst. Further: Øje gamla [øjə gamla], a fishing-ground between Fetlar and Skerries: *iðan(?) gamla ( iða,, backward-running current, eddy, is found as a name of fishing-grounds; see Fr.). de Gamlabuls [gam··labūls·] or Gamlibøls [gam··libøls·] (Tumlin, ): *gǫmlu ból; see, Gamla hellek [gamla hɛᶅək] : *gamla 14
 * gammel [gaməl],, old, noted
 * [gam(b)la] are found in