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408 (Stenhus,, ). — kelda, , a) a source, well; b) swamp; morass.

kelek [kēlək, kē$w$lək],, narrow trench, gutter for carrying off waste water (a gutter in the floor leading the water out beneath the outer wall of a house). [kēla] is found as a place-name: de Kela, a narrow strait between “de holm o’ Melbi” and the opposite mainland. — keila,, a fissure (strait); keila,, a channel, a narrow sound.

kelli, killi [keᶅɩ],, the gull, the three-toed gull, larus tridactylus. An onomatopoeic word; see ,


 * kellin,, see ,

kelmin,, see ,

kelpa-,kelpa-, [sic] kelper- and kelpinsten, , see - and.

kelva [kɛlva] and kelvek [kɛlvək], , a well-developed, not quite half-grown ling.,  in the  “k. ” (, a small ling), is  kefli, , a cylindrical piece of wood. may be either “kefli” or a derivative “*keflingr, the form of words, kjevling,, a) a small cylinder or (thick) stick; b) a half-grown boy or girl, and kjevlungseid,, a medium-sized coalfish. , and ,
 * keflungr”. For the use of

kem, kaim, kame [kem, ᶄem], , applied to sea, waves: to rise, to form a crest of foam, see ,

kemp,, see ,

keng [kɛŋ, keŋ],, a clamp by which something is fastened; see ,

kengsi [ᶄe‘ŋsɩ (ᶄe‘ŋksɩ, kje‘ŋsɩ)] and kensi [ᶄe‘nsɩ (kje‘nsɩ)],, a small cod, which, after the entrails have been removed, is filled with fish-livers and grilled; liver-k. ,, may have arisen through a later developed i-mutation from an older *kangs, *kans = *kams; kams (and partly “kangs”), , a kind of bun or cake, made from fish-liver and meal, kamshovud, , fish’s head filled with kams and boiled, kamshøvd, kings, kinns,, lump; knot, approximates more closely to the word in form and pronunciation.

kenn [kɛn, ken],, 1) to know; 2) to be aware of; 3) to feel, to be sensible of; in all these senses with kenna, , and in the senses 2 (and 3) also with vita. I  it on me, I had a presentiment of it;  kenna á sér, to have a feeling of. In senses 1 and 2, the word assimilates to and  ken,  de sea   it [‘itself’], commotion in the sea along the shore, foreboding an approaching storm , =  sjógvurin “veit í”;  vita í, to indicate, forebode,  to weather.

kennin [kenɩn, kenin],, 1) a feeling; sensation. 2) identification; recognition; also in :. 3) knowledge (about something), knowledge (of something); k. aboot or o’ somet’in’. Assimilates in all three senses to kenning,  kennin,, knowledge; acquaintance.

kennmark [kenma‘rk],, identification mark, on an animal. kennimark,, identification mark.

kent [kɛ‘nt],, properly of, , partly 1) well known; partly 2) skilful (at something), well acquainted (with something). kjend, kent, and ,

†keper [kepər, ᶄepər]-corner, adverbially in the phrase “to cut (or