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292 gait!” “halt”, of  halda, , to hold back, stop. ganga, , a going; speed; run. See -fish.

halti [hä‘ᶅti],, a lame or limping person, in the  “cripple-”, a halting cripple. From haltr,, halt.

halvag,, see ,


 * hamar,, see ,

hamari [hā··mari·],, a side-board of a pack-saddle, in o’ de ”, the sides (side-boards) of the pack-saddle. In is found a form [hem··əri·, həm··əri·] in sense of protruding handle on a pack-saddle; de o’ de, the wooden handles branching out from the pack-saddle, crossing each other. — hamarr,, a hammer. For the application of the word in  hamar,, the hindmost cross-bar over the runners in a sledge, and  hammer,, in frame-work: the cross-pieces, combining the bars with the uppermost timber and the floor, also cross-beam (Fejlb.). With to the ending   hamari, , a hammer.
 * “de [hā··maris·, hā··mariᶊ·]

hammer [hamər],, a terrace-like ledge of rocks in a mountain side, also a single, projecting rock in a mountain or hill-side; in :, a collection of projecting, earth-fast stones. In place-names commonly in the older form [hamar, hāmar], partly in the senses mentioned above, partly (more rarely) in sense of a steep, rocky wall; see further Shetl. Stedn. pp. 102—103. — hamarr, , stone; a steep rock; rocky wall. is a form which has arisen from * through of hammer, and is really the same word as ,

hams [ha‘ms] and hamst [ha‘mst], , confused; unruly; queer; foolish. From is reported “a body”, inter alia in sense of: an unruly person, a person in a confused hurry. The word might be regarded as an of hamstoli(nn),, frantic, distracted, but is, however, more only a parallel form to , (hjams, hjamst), ;
 * and :

hana [hana],, ''here! come'' here! used as a call when feeding animals or birds, a call to gulls. hana,, ''look! look here!'' , ,

hand [hānd, häᶇd],, the hand, = hǫnd (hand-),  Used in in some meanings and applications handed down from and Norn: 1) a handful; a h. [häᶇd] o’ meal.  hond,, the hand, also a handful, ein bond av ull. 2) five in number ( to the number of fingers); a h. [hānd] o’ sheep. 3) side; edge, of boat-fishermen at sea when finding fishing-grounds: two landmarks on one side brought in a certain relation to two landmarks on another side (: hānd); de  o’ a seat (a fishing-ground) or  (, ); see $1$, 4) the expressions “in h. [hānd], to h. [hānd]”, at hand; near; fast approaching, to come in h. or to h., to be at hand, to happen, originate from fara (koma) í hǫnd; to appear; to arrive on the spot, at hendi, at hǫndum, til handa, present; hither; at hand, but now assimilate mostly to the corresponding expressions. — to com’ weel or ill to h., to come well or ill to hand, to turn out well or unfortunately for one; dey [‘they’] ’re come ill to h., they did not succeed; their errand or expedition had an unsuccessful