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244 gobal [gobal·],, noisy mirth in rushing about; to had [‘hold’] a g., to make noisy mirth. (Glup). The first part - springs either from gauð, gaud (gau, gø, go), , a barking, (in :) noise, roar, or is an of  (roar), which is found in, such as “-blaw, -stew”, ; see , is bal,, noise; racket; din.

god [gȯd],, 1) spawn, fish-g., = and  got,  2) by dropping of the last part of the compound: the place in which the fish spawn, fish-g., — gotstad, gotplass,

god$n$ [gȯd],, of fish: to spawn-, de troot [‘trout’] is gane [‘gone’] op de burn to g.  gota,, = gjota,, to spawn.

god$1$ [gȯd],, to work in a soft mass in a slatternly manner, soiling oneself; to g. i’ de fish, to g. i’ de taatis [‘potatoes’]. Also in a wider sense: to work awkwardly, to poke or rake in something, to g. in (atill) de wark [‘work’], to g. (sit ) i’ de fire, to poke the fire with the tongs, needlessly or awkwardly.. The word may , in the sense first given, be compared with gota,, a melted mass (Aa.), and with gytja, , mud. The meanings have doubtless arisen from the meaning first given; but with to, in sense of to poke the fire, gota = gata, , to stake out, to bore, might also be thought of. See $2$, and $1$,, which confirm the parallelism of to “gota, gytja”.

[(gøda) ꬶøda],, a road, path. Now only as a plac-nameplace-name [sic], but alternating with “gate [gɛt (get), ꬶɛt]”, generally used as a common noun in sense of road, path ( gate, gait), so that the meaning of is still understood in some places,, - [stū··raꬶȯd·a, -ꬶød·a], alternating with the later form “-gate [stū··raꬶɛt·] : *stóra gata, “the large path”, now a cultivated piece of land. , -gøda [brē··ꬶȯd·a, -ꬶød·a] : *breið-gata “the broad path". de [mɩd··gød·ɩns], two hillocks near the road between Mid-Yell and West Sandwick: *miðgǫturnar, “the mid-ways". As the first part of the in  [gȯd··atæŋ·], a tongue of land, across the neck of which a path runs: *gǫtu-tangi, “way-tongue"; -gate [gød··ate·-gɛt] (Levenwick, ): *gǫtu-teigr and *gǫtu-teigs-gata (te =, , a strip of land; piece of a field). The word is found as a place-name with preserved t: , ; thus, [stak··aꬶȯt·a] , the name of a path, by which peat is transported from the peat-stacks in the out-field: *stakka-gata.  [gɔt, gōt] is found in several places as the name of a farm: in Laxfirth, [gɔt], in  [gɔt], and in [gōt]. An old road, called “de gate o’ Got”, runs past “Got” in Laxfirth. from an ancient “*í Gǫtu” with a later dropped ;  “í Gøtu” as the name of a village in Østerø; in Norway the word is commonly used as a name of farms: Gate, Gutu. —  gata (, , : gǫtu), , a road, path.
 * goda [(gȯda) ꬶȯda] and *gøda

godek [gōdək (gō$1$dək), gȯdək], , a riddle, something to guess; to lay op. “gȯdək” is now the more form of ; the older form “gōdək (gō$f$dək)”, with a long o, is peculiar to, and  Two other forms are found in : a) [gødək], and b)  [wȯdək] for *. — gáta,, a riddle.


 * goden [godən],, good, noted