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Rh sheep was in under. — From is reported a parallel form [kaf] with short vowel in sense of a) to walk hastily (fighting one’s way); b) to gasp, pant heavily; shø [‘she’] cam’. — *kafa. kava,, to toss about, to be uneasy, to be burdened or overcharged; to grasp, to fumble with one’s hands; to dive. kava, , to fumble with one’s hands, to make swinging movements with one’s arms. kafa,, to dive (into the water); to swim under the surface of the water. — The word seems originally to have been used partly of plunging (diving) down into or under something, partly, through association with the latter, of eager or violent carrying out of something; burdening, overloading. See , ,

kava,, see ,

kavabord [kā··vabȯrd·],, dense snow-storm, =. Reported from in the form [kā··vabȯrg·]. *kafa-burðr. See the word as well as $n$,

kavi [kāvi], kava [kāva], kav [kāv], , I) : properly something diving (into the depth), noted down in meanings: 1) the sinker, , of a fishing hand-line or long-line; as a tabu-name, sea-term. 2) in rowing out for deep-sea fishing by boat: de, the land (land, in contrast to the sea), the low land, which, during rowing, disappears before the heights or high land; the latter is (was) called “de  (and , ), “that which peeps out.” Often used in : de .  3) a) rock by the shore,  in : de, (the rocks by) the shore, mostly used of low shore. Chiefly assimilating in meaning to I 2. , b) in a wider sense: big boulder, a stone used for ballast. In this latter sense the word has arisen from meaning I 1, partly from I 3. II), , : that into which someone or something is plunged, or that which descends closely around one: 1) a dense snowfall, often with added “o’ snaw [‘snow’]”: a k. o’ snaw, a snaw-k.; fairly common. Also a) [kāvə]; b)  [kāfə], [kāfa]. The forms with f are noted down in 2) heavy, driving rain, a  o’ rain. III) : eagerness; hurry; violence; to geng in a k., to walk fast with violent movements; to eat in a k., to eat hastily and greedily; to be in a k., to be eager, quick and violent in one’s movements. — *kaf-. kaf,, depths of the ocean, a plunging into the water, also inter alia = kóf,, smoke, steam; “kafi” to snow-storm in the combinations “kafafjúk”,, a thick fall of snow, and “kafahríð”, , heavy snowfall accompanied by strong wind. kav,, tumult, unrest, bustle; diving, swimming; depth (depth of water). kave,, snow-squall, dense fall of snow; kavi,, snow. a) kafi,, dense smoke; heavy dew or rain, and b) kafald, , dense snow-storm. In sense III assimilates to ákafi,, hastiness; eagerness; vehemence. In, ,  are  one or more derivatives of “kaf” merged together with the word “kaf”, so that here actually appear more than one word.

kavl, kavel [kavəl],, the hindmost space in the boat where the fishing-line is hauled over the roller fixed to the gunwale, and where the fish are taken off the hooks, also called “”. The man who hauls in the fish is said “to sit i’ de k.” Allied to the  word.

kavl$2$, kavel [kavəl],, to take 26*