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368 purpose. In sense 2 otherwise more and “-draw, -draw”; — “i-draught” from an original *í-drag, , or *ídráttr,, “a drawing into”. idrag,, denotes anticipation, a vague promise, and comes near to the word in sense 2 a.
 * “-draught (-draught)”

ifarek [i̇̄·fā·rək],, sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s for shoe; in : de, the shoes. *ífar,, that which one puts on, a garment; fara í,, to put on (clothes).  íferð [oife$n$r],, the mouth of the shoe (Svabo), and ifarakläder, , everyday clothes.

ifetlek [i̇̄·fət·lək],, sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s for mouse.  is a parallel form to, , , a mouse, a small foot, light foot (see, ). i- is most probably intensive here, as also in the (cat), denoting the exceedingly light and quick movements of the animal; thus: the extremely light-footed one, or something to that effect. It may then be ið-, in words such as: iðgnógr, , abundant; plenty (gnógr), and iðgnótt, , abundance (Eg.), iðglíki, , the exact image (of a thing or person) (Eg.), ið(g)líkr,, exactly like. “ið”,, is found in as an independent word, in sense of perpetual motion (E.J.).

ifudien [i̇̄·fū··diən·],, sea-term, tabu-name in fishermen’s for cat., Intensive of , , cat (the swift-footed one; tabu-name); For the suggested explanation of the prefix i- as ið-, see above under ,

igg [ɩg(g), eg(g)],, to incite, egg, see ,

(species of stone); now used only as a place-name: “de Igitel” , the name of some quartz rocks, a ravine (into which the sea-water flows),, surrounded by such rocks. hégeitill,, white or light-grey quartz. The word is preserved as a common noun in in other forms; see, , ,
 * igitel [i̇̄·gɩt·əl],, white quartz


 * iglet,, see ,

igrip [i̇̄grɩp],, on a carrying-basket : ear, loop, into which the carrying-band (de, de ) is fixed. There is one on each side of the basket; the band is fastened at both ends, and put over the shoulders across the breast; thus the basket is carried on the back. *í-grip, “ingrip”, that into which something fits.

in a small fragment of conversation, partly in Norn, from Norwick, ; see Introd. (Fragments of Norn). ekki, nothing, = eigi, , not; ikkje,  ikke.
 * ikke [ɩkə],, not, preserved

il, eel [(il) ɩl],, a stripe along the back of a horse; a black ., Is doubtless, in spite of the short [ɩ]-sound, rather an anglicisation, “eel”, from áll, , an eel, a narrow channel, also a stripe along the back of an animal, in the same way as *, eel (name of the fish), has now become “eel [i̇̄l, ɩ̄l, il (ɩl)]”.

ila [i̇̄la],, properly a stone serving as an anchor for a boat, when fishing (with rod) near the shore, now commonly in a transferred sense of the fishing-place itself, where this kind of fishing is carried on; in such as: a) to lie at de i., to angle for small fish ( young coalfish,, with rod) from an anchored boat near the shore, corresponding to “liggja firi íla” (to fish with a rod, for small cod, from an anchored