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Rh gap; opening); -, -, seem to presuppose *gløypn- (gløypnarbein from *gløypn, ?), and - a *glip- ( and. Sw. díal.Sw. dial. [sic] glipa,, to gape; to be ajar, = gløypa 2 in Aa.). — A, in a sense, is found in Unst;  —  ,

glød [glød],, 1) red-hot embers; a fire burnt down to embers ( to , , , denoting a flaming fire); a g. o’ fire; de fire is in a g., the fire has burnt down, is lying in embers. 2) a faint light from the fire on the hearth; der’r a g. frae de fire, a g. i’ de fire. 3) a strong, brief heat from the sun; warm, bright sunshine after rain or betweeen showers; de sun was ut wi’ a g.; a g. atween shooers [‘between showers’]; a g. o’ bet [‘heat’]; a sun-g. Also (more rarely) [glȯd]. Originates doubtless from  glóð,, red-hot embers, though glóð regularly ought to have given * in  The form  may have arisen through , partly a) with to the vowel-sound: from the old form ( glœðr) and the verb , glœða, to glow, partly b) with to the final d: from synonymous words, such as, , and $1$, ;

glød [glød],, to glow, lie in embers or burnt down, of fire; de fire, is = de fire is in a. glœða, , to glow.

glöder,, see $1$,

gløder,, see $2$,

gløver [gløvər] and glover [glȯvər], , a broad cleft in the soil, a cleft or deep gully of a stream. Now mostly as a place-name: de or  (in several places in ); de burn o’ de ; de  o’ Sundebanks ; de (a house in, ). As the first part of in place-names, the word is noted down in [glȯv··ərsbærg·, gləv··ərs-] and “de [glɔ̇f··rahwäis·]” : *gljúfra (glyfra-, glufra)-kvíar (see, ). — gljúfr,, a ravine ( the rocks enclosing such a ravine on both sides); glyvra and gluvra,, glyvur [gli̇̄vȯr],, a small ravine. — may spring either from gljúfr or *glyfr-; and *- mainly point back to *glyfr-, *glufr- ( glyvra, gluvra). — A form , from gljúfr, is reported from and ; see ,

gneg [gnɛg, gnæg],, to gnaw; de dog (is ) de , the dog gnaws the bone. gnaga,, to gnaw. and ,

go [gō],, in the phrase: “he (shø) ’ll nedder [‘neither’] ”, he (she) will neither stand nor go, has no mɩndmind [sic] to do anything , is hardly go, as go in is always represented by [ ganga,  gang, geng]. The phrase: “” points to an old Danicism in Norn (stand or go instead of go or stand). “gá” and “stá” in the ballads = “ganga” and “standa”. In , where the above-mentioned is noted down, an old burial formula is preserved, which is partly, at any rate, in the old Danish language, and reads: “staa”, stand, and “laar”, lets (  of lade,, to let, ) — see Introd. (Fragments of Norn).

gob [gȯb],, a puddle, a muddy or swampy spot.   gop, , an abyss, and gopel,, a muddy mass. [gȯb (gɔb)] and [gɔbins],, in sense of foam (foaming, fatty substance; lather); froth, on the other hand, is another word, : cobhar, , foam. 16*