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Rh hofsahellek [hɔf··sahɛᶅ·ək], , see, -,

hofsek [hȯfsək],, a big, clumsy, unwieldy person, a great h. (“mukkel”, as intensive addition to “great”). Doubtless from an original *hufs (hyfs)-, and parallel form to, ;  hufsa, hyfsa,, inter alia to walk with a jerking, plunging gait. from [ ofsa], ?

hofset$1$ [hȯfsət],, big; clumsy; unwieldy; a h. body [‘person’]. Is to be classed with the preceding word. hufsen,, inter alia that walks with a jerking, plunging gait, and see ,

hofset$2$ [hɔfsət],, excitable; hasty.,  of  , In the now more general sense, touchy; apt to get angry over trifles; easily offended, assimilates in sense to  huffy,

hofsi (hufsi),, edge-peat, , see ,

hog [hōg],, condition; state; der ’r a pør [‘poor’] h. upo dee, you look poorly. The same word as $2$, ;

hoga [hōga, hoga (hɔga, hɔγa, hōγa)] and hog [hōg (hɔg)],, a pasture, out-field. In [hōga, hoga] and  [hōg] denote a pasture in general, both the home-field and the out-field, = (stubble-field); de kye [‘cows’] will no [‘not’] keep de , the cows will not keep to the pasture where they ought to graze. Otherwise the word denotes hill-pasture, out-field, = , thus in  and “to drive de sheep to de fardest [‘farthest’] [hōga]”. In [hōga], a place where the sheep gather for shelter (in the out-field). In the word is found as a place-name [lam··oga·]: is found a form [hōgi] besides [hoga, hɔγa, hōγa], used as a place-name, de Hogi or Hoga [hɔγa, hōγa] o’ Burraland, “hōgi” is peculiar to , “hɔγa, hōγa” to Sandwick. With long o-sound: de Hoga [hōga] o’ Lunabister (Scousburgh, ). — On the word is found preserved with suffixed : [hogɩn] and [hogən, hɔgən]. : ; otherwise more commonly:, as a place-name, de o’ Fogrigert [fɔg··rɩgə‘rt·] : *Fagragarðs-haginn; de o’ Greenland, o’ Stapnes, o’ Kolswik , o’ Voe ; all these names border on a common noun. In [hogən], and in , are still common nouns; thus, : put de kye to de ! drive the cows into the hill-pasture!. de “doon [‘down’]-”, the lower part of the hill-pasture (nearest the village), to: “de ”, the higher (farther-off) part of the hill-pasture. — is used of haunt, place of resort for people, in an obscure sense of the original meaning of the word (pasture); thus, : he ’s come back till his auld [‘old’] h. [hōga]: ; du’s been in a guid [gø̆d = ‘good’] h. [hōga], you seem to have had a good time where you have been, you look well and hearty, you have grown fat,,  you have been in clover; he ’s come till a bony h. [hōga], he has come to a fine ( bad) place (iron.). or —  hagi,, a pasture; form: haginn. — a), , , , , , and c) -, - as the first part of
 * lamb-hagi. In and
 * b), ,

hogaland [hō··galand·],, pasture-land for cattle. Outside