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296 sea-gulls, invited to pick up food, = . Also [haᶇ··adu·, häᶇ··adu·]. Though, in sense, corresponds exactly to, the softened (palatal) of n points towards an older nn, which may have arisen from rn;  hérna ( heran, herane, herne, henne, hænn, hena, hänne, hanna, and various forms),, here, just here. the.

hannana [haᶇ··ana·, häᶇ··ana·], , ''look out! keep clear!'' cry to pack-horses meeting each other in peat-transport from the out-field. Also [hȯᶇ··ɩna·]. an extended form of, ; see the preceding word. hennena,, just here, an extended form of hena, hänne,

hannepaa,, see under.

hannister [haᶇ··ɩstər, häᶇ··ɩstər·], , substitute for the name of a person one does not wish to mention when speaking of him: he whom you know,   [haᶇ·əpā·, häᶇ·əpā·] is reported from in the same application. — Both words contain hann,, he. “hannister” is used with addition of “de ”, and has then probably been used as tabu-name, sea-term for shark, the small species of shark, commonly called “” in  a),  = , ,  tabu-name for the shark, and b)  as a tabu-name for boat, under *,

hansper [ha‘nspər],, stiffness in the limbs; see ,

hanvag [han·vāg·, häᶇ·vāg·], , 1) to lie awake at night; now rare in this sense; in a fisherman’s verse from Unst (Burrafirt’), beginning: I lay and I  [han·vā·gəd, häᶇ·-] 2) to be drowsy; to saunter idly about, to geng  - [häᶇ·vā·gɩn] aboot. 3) to steal or lurk about, to geng [häᶇ·vā·gɩn] aboot. In the senses 2 and 3 also  [hem·vāg·] . 4) to be doubtful, to hesitate on account of irresolution. [han·vā··gər]. — 1 presupposes an “*andvaka”;  andvaka, , sleeplessness, and andvaki, , sleepless. The senses 2 and 3 may be later developments of sense 1. The word has been used in sense of to feel slightly; see, — A form [häᶅ·vāg·] = 2 and 3 is the same word, but resembles, however, halvaka (uncertain normal form: R.), , to become doubtful, to be unable to make up one’s mind. Certainly, and “halvaka” do not assimilate in meaning, which, on the other hand, is the case with 4 and “halvaka”. — Mingling of two different words?
 * [häᶇ·vāg·]; :

hanvagin [(han·vā·gɩn) häᶇ·vā·gɩn], , a slight impression or feeling of something; I had de mere h. o’ a fish bein’ at de hook, I could just feel a fish at the hook. of, , in a sense of this word which is no longer preserved.

hap [hap],, a handle, a loop-shaped band (made of rush or straw) on the side of a straw-basket, transport-basket (kessi, bødi). . In transport the rope, band (repi(n)string, repinband, vattaband) is fixed through “de ” across the mouth of the basket. — hapt,, a band by which something is tied or fixed, hepti,, a handle. With to p for pt in, from pt, see, ,  [ aptann], and, [ aptra].

hapl, hapel [hapəl],, to go halting, to geng [‘go’] aboot de door(s). the same