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386 and  jarki,, edge of the sole of the foot, in (B.H. and E.J.) applied to the outside edge. — In sense of a) a push, jerk, blow; b) a large draught; a quick, large bite (a snap with the mouth), is quite another word, yerk (yark) = jerk, tug,

jarm [jarm (jārm)],, a bleating; mewing; a howling (crying), wail or complaint. jarmr,, a bleating; howling; bawling; crying (screeching of birds). See the word.

jarm [jarm, jārm],, applied to sheep: to bleat. Also to a cat: to mew. Chiefly with short a-sound: jarm. With a long vowel-sound the word is reported from [jārm]. — jarma,, to bleat; in in a wider use (to howl; cry; lament). See ,

jarmek [jarmək] and jarmer [jarmər, jārmər],, sea-term, tabu-name, used by fishermen for a) sheep; b) cat. ( to sheep) reported from ; elsewhere more :. In pronounced with long a-sound; in other places more with short a. — [jarmər] is also reported as a tabu-name, sea-term for precentor. from older *jarmari; from a *jarmingr. a “bleater”, "mewer”, “crier”.

jarp [ja‘rp],, to repeat constantly the same questions or demands when wanting something done, to harp upon a thing; to j. upon a ting. From is reported a form [jarb]; to aboot or upo somet’in’. — jarpa, , to jabber; chatter; yarp, , to whine; to carp at. The form , with change from p to b, indicates to be an old word in Shetlandic. See ,

jarta [ja‘rta],, properly the heart, but now only preserved as a term of endearment or friendship: ''my treasure! my dear! my friend!'' “my heart!”,  (where) is du gaun [‘going’], j.? . Stand at dee, j.! move a little, my dear! j. ! (for j. *!) child of my heart! ; see *, j. ! ''my (little) treasure! my'' dear! ; see, — hjarta,, the heart. With regard to the application of the word in,   “(mitt) hjartans barn”, (old) “(mit) hjærte barn, (min) hjærte ven, hjærte moder”, child of my heart, friend of my heart, dearest mother. The development hj > j in  is an exception to the rule, as hj > sj [ᶊ] is the common development in Norn.

'jart-fa''’? jarfa' [ja‘rfa],, nausea''; disorder of the stomach with inclination to vomit; I am gotten [‘have got’] a. As the same indisposition is expressed by “heart-sickness” in, the word may be an old “-fa”’ from an original *hjarta-fall,, paralysis of the heart. See, , “heart”. The second part,, may be fa’, , a fall. For the use of “fa’” in this,  in the ,, paralysis of the tongue.

jasp [jasp],, a clever, active person. The word is more commonly used as an adjective; see the word.

jasp [jasp],, somewhat smart, active, eager; I am no sae [‘not so’] j.; he is no very j. is reported from in a more special sense, more smart or agile than might be expected, applied to a person having but little vigour. The latter might indicate the word to have arisen from an older * by metathesis of p and s, and to have originally belonged to an old