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Rh, “high-back”, applied to the foremost part of a sheep’s back, nearest the neck. — Whether the forms and are to be classed with the word is doubtful, as in this case a  of “ǫxl” might be suggested.

hjogfinni [hjok·fəᶇ·ɩ, -fɩᶇ·ɩ, hjɔk·-], , a strange, odd-looking object or person; an odd, dwarfish being; brownie.,  “eitt *haugfunnit”, something found in a tumulus; see further under the ,

hjogfinni [hjɔk·fəᶇ·ɩ, -fɩᶇ·ɩ, (hjok·-)], , odd; strange; old-fashioned; long hidden; mysterious; auld [‘old’] h. tings; dey had some auld h. tings gaderd [‘gathered’] op aboot dem, naebody kent o’ [‘nobody knew of’], they had a collection of queer, old objects, which nobody knew anything about. — *haugfunninn, found in a tumulus (haugr); haugfunnen,, d) found in a tumulus; b) odd; strange; queer.

hjogg, hjugg [hjog],, to cut; tear; pluck; de dog is at de, the dog is tearing the carcass; de fish is at de bait, the fish is nibbling at the bait. hǫggva,, to hew, cut, which latter words are now used in in proper sense. $b$, ,

hjokel [hjɔkəl, hjåkəl],, 1) a flap; corner, part of a slaughtered animal’s ( a sheep’s) skin; foot of a skin (sheep’s skin); also the skin which has covered the shoulder or the thigh together with the foot. Also in the form [hjɔklɩn], reported from in the last given sense: “de fore-” and “de hint [‘hind’]-”. 2) a corner in the bottom of a plaited basket (straw-basket), one of the two bottom corners in a transport-basket; de o’ a,  or. In this sense a form [hjākəl], besides [hjɔkəl], is found in. — an original *hœkill. , with regard to meaning 1, hœkill, , the knee-joint of an animal’s hind leg, hough, høkel, ,, høkil, , the two bones (with the flesh) of a slaughtered animal’s (sheep’s) shoulder, nearest the shoulder-blade, hækill, , a corner, the extreme end of an object (B.H.), hykkäl, , the heel. In sense 2, may be the same word;  hækill, , corner. might spring from another word with a similar sencesense [sic];  hekel,, a corner; flap. For the breaking of e to ja in, see under , As the word “shooder [‘shoulder’]”, however, is used in a similar sense to, in sense of corner in the bottom of a basket, and in the last sense, given under 1 (fore- and hint-shooder = fore- and hint-), a merging of the two originally quite different words may have taken place in, : “hœkill” and ǫxl,, the shoulder. The word “ǫxl” assumes different forms in Norn: a) *,, b) with prefixed j:, ; c) further with prefixed h before j: , ; see further under , , and the , ,

hjokelhjog [hjɔk··əlhjōg·],, one of the lengths of straw, used for plaiting the bottom corner of a straw-basket. in :. See, , and $n$,

hjokfinni, and, see.

hjokk [hjåk],, small, only used as a tabu-word in fishermen’s at sea ( to ød, large); de