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Rh the same word as hvati, , a sword (Eg.), from “hvatr”, , : sharp, keen; later: quick, active. kvette,, a spear, puncheon, is derived from the same root (Aasen, 2nd edit. p. 974: Words from old glossaries). See ,

hwag$1$ [hwāg],, a kind of liver-cake ; see further

hwag$1$ [hwāg] and hwaga [hwāga, χwāga],, commotion in the sea; see further $2$, ,

hwag [hwāg] and hwak [hwāk], , to shake; quiver; swarm; see $2$,

hwak [hwāk],, to quack, see $1$,

hwakk [hwak],, a start, sudden fright, see ,

hwakk [hwak],, to startle, see ,

hwal [hwāl],, 1) a whale, hvalr, , whaal. The with ā is characteristic of ; elsewhere now, in proper sense, more pronounced as in  The form with ā, however, is often found in  outside ,  (see below), krang ( krang,, the body of a whale divested of the blubber), (see below). 2) : long, rolling, unbroken wave; mostly in , [hwāls], applied to waves of this description. In the same sense , the back of a whale.

hwal, and, applied to abating of wind and bad weather, see $2$, and

hwalbak [hwālbak],, 1) the back of a whale. 2) a long, rolling wave, = 2. is found as a place-name, denoting rocks or skerries, in shape resembling the back of a whale; see Sh. Stedn. p. 74. *hvalbak, , the back of a whale.

hwalben [hwālben (-bēn)], , whalebone. hvalbein, ,

hwalgrind [hwāl·grɩnd·],, a shoal of whales, see , 4.

hwalp [hwa‘lp, hwā‘lp],, a whelp (puppy). *hvalpr = hvelpr, , hvalp, whalp, a whelp.

hwalp [hwa‘lp, hwā‘lp],, to whelp; de dog is [‘has’].
 * hvalpa = *hvelpa.

hwalsløb [hwāl·sløb·, -sløb, -slø̄$2$b], , jelly-fish, medusa. : hwāl·slø̄b·, -slø̄$n$b·. A of, , a whale, and , , glutinous substance, also jelly-fish. “kvalspýggj” as the name for jelly-fish (spýggj,, a quantity belched out). See $ə$, 2.

hwalsnurt [hwālsno‘rt],, = . From, , and $w$,, rheum.

hwamm [hwam],, 1) a small dale; often to be found in place-names in this sense. Colloquially mostly: a round hollow, depression in the ground; de h. o’ a corn-rig, de h. o’ de rig (rig, corn-rig = cultivated patch). Also [hwäm] and [hwæm] . On  and in,  and hollow or palm of the hand, de h. o’ de hand; more rarely = , 2, of the hollow of the sole, de h. o’ de foot; also in the forms (see above) and [hwa‘mp] — the last form reported from  —  hvammr, , a small dale;  quhamm, wham, whaum.
 * [kwam]. 2) the

hwangi [hwaŋgi],, a non-prolific ram, see ,

any. Noted down in in the forms * [kwāra, kwara] and is a  form in, in the phrase “a kwara hala”, on each 23
 * hwar,, every, each,
 * [kwa‘rt]: a), which