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474 With 1 and 2 can also be compared  krylas,  , to double oneself up. With 3 (a shaped piece of dough) can mainly be compared krull, , inter alia curly shaving, and krulla, , a cluster. With such a development of meaning of the Shetlandic word might then be compared the changes of meaning in, and ,, used synonymously with 3.

krølet [krølət],, 1) rolled up (curled), coiled up; contracted; curled. a k. mooth, a round, pursed-up, protruding mouth, = -mooth. 2) having an arched back, humped; a k. (k.-backed) baess or animal. ? — of ,

krølki [krø‘lki],, arched back, hump; to set a k. upon ane’s back, to arch the back. (?). to J.I. : *krylk- or *krylt-. See further and, , in the same sense.

krøl [krøl]-mooth,, = mooth; see, , and , 1.

krømm [krøm],, a crumb; particle. A form with i-mutation.

krøn [krø̄$ə$n],, 1) to be ailing or sickly. 2) to whimper, complain; to sit. krauna and krøyna,, a) to shrink from; b) to whimper, complain, krøna,, to talk in the throat, to cough slightly; krauna,, to make a gurgling sound ( to liquid).

krøssek [krøᶊək],, star-fish, Asterias. See ,

krøstigi [krø̄·stɩg·i] and krøstjagi [krø̄·stjā·gi],, a fence leading out from a sheep-fold,, preventing the sheep from being scattered when driven into the fold. (-stigi). (-stjagi). See ,

krøstuki [krø̄·stuk·i], krøstjugi [-stjū·gi], krøstog(g)i [-stȯg·i], , = ., , , , See  and ,

kub [kūb] and kubi [kūbi],, a seal, : a young seal. Now mostly used as a call in order to coax a seal:, ! — kópr,, a seal, kópur. See, , which is another form.

kub [kūb],, to a : to bring forth young, = kæpa (*kœpa), The  form springs from a *kópa = *kœpa, without i- mutation. See the preceding word.

kubi [kubi],, a small, hive-shaped basket, a) a quite small or fish-creel (made of straw); b) small basket for holding bait; c) a small hive-shaped box (made of straw or rushes) for holding salt, a saut (sauti)-k.; d) a hive-shaped muzzle (mostly made from dried dock-leaves) tied over a horse's mouth to prevent it from eating corn. and  In sense a the word is peculiar to, in senses c and d to  the same word as, [*kúpa, , a bowl]; — A form [kobi], a small bait-basket, is doubtless originally etymologically with
 * see however ,

†kuf, kuff [kuf, kof],, a push; thrust; blow. [kuf]. [kof]. The word may spring from kuff ( and kuffa,, to push; thrust), owing to the u-sound, and the close o [o]-sound, though in meaning it almost assimilates to cuff, See the , , which, together with the verb , seems to be of Norn origin.

kufi [kufi],, a species of big, round shell-fish, Cyprina (Venus) Islandica. and Otherwise more commonly: a) -shall