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476 o’ de heart’ (heart’-stane); . 5) pot-hook; [kul]: de !” —  kúla,, a bump; knob; (round) lump; “something protruding from an otherwise plain surface” (Fr.). In Norway ( to O. Rygh) the word is found as a place-name, in names of heights. — In the senses of night-cap, skullcap, baby’s hood,   is coul(ie),  cowl (coul),
 * “hang de kettle higher op i’

kuli (kulek),, see the preceding word.


 * kulk, and, see.

kulki [ku‘lki (ko‘lki)],, protuberant knob or lump; de k. o’ de kettle [kettle, pot], de k. o’ de [mogi, the stomach of a fish]; see further,  of $n$,

kulsin, kjulsin,, see.

kum [kūm, kum],, 1†) (layer of) dirt, soot. Also adhesive meal-dust; fine, adhesive meal on the edges of the millstones ; fine ashes . — a k. o’, a small quantity of meal . 2*) low-lying mist; a k. ower de sea; der ’r a k. cornin’  de valley (, dale); a k. upo de land. [kūm]. — *kóm = *kám. kám,, a layer of dirt; kahm,, mustiness. kaam, kåm, kámur,, dusky; dull-coloured (faded). In sense 1 merges with and coom,, soot; coal-dust (also in a wider sense of dust-like refuse), and is, in this case, mainly to be explained from this word, as it is also pronounced with the same vowel-sound [ū]. In sense 2, on the other hand, is  of the adjective *kámr in , and — See  (and ),
 * kám (*kóm) with to the meaning

†kum [kūm],, to a quern or mill in grinding of moist corn: to deposit adhesive meal on the edges of the millstones. See , 1.

kumet [kūmət],, misty, hazy, to weather, atmosphere. Not to very damp fog. Also [kūmi]. *kómóttr = *kámóttr. See, 2. For another form, with different sense, developed on from an original
 * kámóttr (*kámr), see ,

kuml [koməl],, a cairn, a stany [‘stony’] k.; also a hillock, mound, a k. o’ eart’, a green k. Often found in place-names with the root-meaning tumulus (cairn). Beside ( “de  o’ Korkigert”, near Kollswick,, ) are sometimes found in place-names the forms [kombəl] (: de K. o’ Harrier. ),  [kɔməl] (de stany K.: between and, ), and  [kȯmbəl] (Haroldswick, , ). — kuml, , a sign; tumulus; cairn; kuml, , a hill.

kuml [koməl],, to turn upside down, to turn a hollow object bottom up; to k. a boat. See further, , and ,

†kummer [komər],, godmother , also used as a term of address to elderly women in analogy with “gummoran” ( form), the godmother, from guð-móðir. The word, however, is also commonly used in sense of midwife like cummer,  a) (more rarely) godmother; b) a gossip-monger; c) midwife ( commère = cummer a and b). Since a development g > k is comparatively rare in Norn, when initial (the change of initial k > g is more frequent), there is certainly in a merging and mingling with the  word, in form as well as in sense and application.