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318 root of which is cognate.

hjims, hjimset, hjimst (hjimpst), , see, , ,

hjog$1$ [hjōg (hjōγ)],, a hill, height; (in place-names) of somewhat greater heights. The word is now obsolete in its general sense, but is, however, still found in a few places in the sense of tumulus; old burial ground, thus in  [hjōg] and in, [hjōγ]. The word appears frequently in place-names; uncompounded mostly with prefixed “de” and, partly at any rate, with meaning understood; pronounced: hjōg, : “de and de piri ”, the great and the small hill, two heights between Baltasound and Haroldswick, Unst. Further: de o’ Hwefirt’, o’ Taft , “de ” and “de [hjōgɩns] o’ ”, the latter from an old “haugarnir”, , with a later added   s. See Shetl. Stedn., p. 103. The word is noted down in a single compounded place-name [hø̄g], in the name of a fishing-ground: --wi [rɩv··əna·-hø̄··gəna·-wi̇̄] , named after two landmarks, by means of which it is to be found: “the cleft in a line with the hill”. — haugr,, a mound; a cairn.
 * rifan or rifuna-hauginn-við,

hjog$n$ [hjōg],, in plaiting a straw-basket: two lengths of straw, plaited. in : de, the plaited parts of straw of which a basket is made; de o’ de = de “een” [‘eyes’] o’ de .  The more widely used “een”, of  ee,, the eye, for, shows that , in this sense, replaces an older * in sense of eye; see further *, — auga,, the eye.

hjogel,, see ,

hjogelben [hjog··əlben·, hjō··gəlben·], , the shoulder-blade, the projecting edge of it, adjoining the collar-bone, of an animal. [hjog··əlben·]. [hjō··gəlben·]. replaces * from an older *, *. ǫxl, , the shoulder, axlarbein,, the shoulder-bone., [jɔkəl] is preserved in  in sense of a knotty crag; corner (shoulder) of a mountain or hill, = ǫxl. In place-names is found - for - in sense of knot, corner,  de Point o’ [hjåkla], de [hjɔklins] , two sharp curves in the coast-line (steep coast). ,, and see moreover, , into which “ǫxl”, together with “hœkill”, has been merged. For the development ksl (xl) > kl in Norn, see Introd. V (also N.Spr. VII), § 38 g.

hjogeldarigg [hjō··gəldarɩg·, hjog·əlda-], hjogelesrigg [hjō··gələsrɩg·, hjog··ələs-] and hjogelsterigg [hjō··gəlstərɩg·, hjog··əlstə-],, the high, curved part of a swine’s back, nearest the neck. and   and -, -, : from : “hjogelesrigg” and [hjog··əlsrɩg·]:  From is reported a form [hō··vəldarɩg·, hō··vəldərɩg·]. — an original *há-geitils (geitla)-hryggr. “-gelda-, -gelste-, -geles-”, in that case, for “ geitla, , and geitils, ” respectively. geitill,, hard lump, in apparently used in sense of dorsal vertebra; see further under and , with regard to the first part of the  -
 * the form - is reported