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396 kaldkrogin [kāld··krog·ɩn], , susceptible to cold; a k. body [‘person’] or animal. huddling itself up, or seeking shelter against the cold. See, - may either be of the verb , or an adjective “*krœkinn”, with dropped i-mutation; krøkjen,, curved, much bent.

kaldward [kalward] and kaldword [kalwərd],, chilly, to weather; he is k., it is (fresh and) chilly. kaldvoren (-vorden), , somewhat cold.

calf [kāf],, the innermost, soft part of rushes, the pith, commonly called “de heart o’ de flos.” and kalv, , inter alia the soft wood surrounding the pith of a tree. The word is an original “kalfr”, merged with calf, adopting the pronunciation of the latter. The form *, , is handed down as a designation in Norn for calf.

calf-skin, , calf’s skin, but in the often applied to the surface of the water when ruffled by the wind; calf-skins on the water.

†kali [kali],, flap of the trousers. uncertain.

kall [kal, (kaᶅ) käᶅ],, business, calling, vocation, that which concerns one, or is one’s duty to execute, negatively: du has nae [‘no’] k. to dø dat [‘do it’], you had no call to do that., : kal. : (kaᶅ) käᶅ. kall, , a calling. ( kall,, a call, shout; designation). In sense of call, shout, as well as in the other senses with  call,, the “ca’” is now used in

kall [(kaᶅ) käᶅ],, 1*) to call, call someone; in this Norn form, originating from kalla, , is only handed down: a) in an exclamation, belonging to a troll myth: “Dat is my midder [käᶅɩn] on me”, that is my mother calling me; in an older form: my midder “ o” me [käᶅ··ərəmi·, käᶅ·ərəmi̇̄·], my mother calls me, : exclamation of the child in the myth about the troll child in the horn (see Introd.); ; b) in a Norn verse from Unst: [käᶅɩ (kä$i$li)] in a, calling in great excitement (see Introd.). In sense of to call, ca’ [kâ],  form of call, , is now always used. 2) to cry, scream, applied to gulls; de maws is. — kalla, , to call, shout, kalla á einhvern, to call one. — in some place-names, names of places from which it is (was) necessary to shout in order to be ferried across a sound, firth or stream, the root “kall” is found in the first part of ; thus: Kallibrekk [käᶅ··ɩbrek·], a slope on the east side of Wisdal Vo, : *kallaðar-brekka ( kallaðarberg, -land, -nes); Kallines [käᶅ··ɩnɛs·] (Trondra, ) from kallaðarnes; Kallateng [käᶅ··atæŋ·] (, opposite to the isle of Vaila, pronounced vēla): *kallaðar-tangi; Kalnateng [kal··natæŋ·] (, near Sulem Vo): *kallanar-tangi; kallanarberg = kallaðarberg. version of an older *kall- is found in the name “de Cryin’-teng”, tongue of land on the east side of Hwalfirt’ Vo, Yell. See Shetl. Stedn. pp. 59, 82 and 136.
 * (mín móðir) kallar á mik — the

kalli [käᶅɩ],, a crying, screaming, applied to the gulls’ screaming; der’r a k. among de maws; de k. o’ de maws is awfu’ [-‘ful’]. Also, [keᶅɩ (kəᶅɩ)] and , [keᶅɩn]; de k. o’ de maws. kall,, kallan, , a calling, shouting. See, 2.

kallow, callow [kalo], , to a cow, to calve. Anglicised form.

kallu [kal·ū·, kaᶅ·ū· (käᶅ·ū·)], ,