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482 (-bos·)]. Burra Isle: [hwæ‘r··kapos·]. In the second part of the initial b has replaced p: or (mostly)  [bȯs]. — throat. kverk,, the throat, . With - (-, -)  pus (uu),, a swelling, filled with pus ( and pusa and pusna, puse,, to tumefy).
 * kverkar-púss, a swelling in the

kwerket (kwirket) [kwə‘rkət], , applied to cattle: white about the throat and jaws; a k. sheep or coo. *kverkóttr. of kverk,, the throat. See ,

kwerkl, kwerkel (kwirkl, kwirkel) [*kwæ‘rkəl, *kwə‘rkəl (*kwe‘rkəl)], , 1) to cough up (phlegm), to hawk slightly, to clear the throat, reported from in the form, [hwə‘rkəl (hwe‘rkəl)]; to . o’ de (ane’s) t’rot [‘throat’]. 2) of crested waves, in tide-rip: to break ( to topple over); reported from in the form [hwæ‘rkəl]; he is [hwæ‘rklɩn] upo de de day, the sea breaks on the “land-tide” (the shoreward-setting tide) to-day. — an angle; a narrowing, esp,esp. [sic] a) the throat; b) the angle formed by the toppling crest of a breaking wave, curvature of a breaking wave-crest,
 * kverkla; of  kverk, ,

kwern [kwɛrn, kwern; kwē$n$rn, kwē$n$rn, kwɛ̄$ə$rn],, a quern, hand-mill, = kvern,  In  the word is used also as a sea-term (tabu-name in fishermen’s language) for mill in general, : (together with ) and rn in the word is doubtless due to of quern,  Older and more phonetically developed Shetlandic forms (now obsolete) in which rn has been assimilated to nn [generally [gen- erally with palatal softening: ᶇ] are reported from :. * [hweᶇɩ] and * [hwɛᶇa, hweᶇa], as well as in a special sense snuff-mill: , [hweᶇək], a small mill, with the ending -. In place-names the word often appears as the first part in sense of water-mill, in names of streams which drive or have driven such a mill, or, more commonly, in names (mostly trisyllabic) of places situated by mill-streams. The word, in this latter sense, is commonly found in the forms [(kwɛn) kwen, kweᶇ: , and ; in (hwɛn) and more  hweᶇ: and ; : hwɛin, hwein]. See further Shetl. Stedn., pp. 179—180. — kvern,, a quern; mill.
 * ,, The final
 * kwæn], and [hwen

kwern-fish,, the turbot. : [hwērn]-fish. Thus named on account of its round shape, resembling a millstone. a quite recent word.

kwi [kwi̇̄],, properly an enclosure or milking-place for cattle, reported from in sense of shelter and pasture for cattle, in the form [(hwi̇̄) hwei], in : de [hweis] o’ a toonship, pastures, parcelled out, belonging to a farm, or common to a cluster of farms. The word is found extensively as a place-name in different forms with alternating of the original long í. With preserved long i [i̇̄], Kwi, now the name of a farm: de Kwis (Lorafell, ); de Kwiens [kwi̇̄əns] (Tumlin, ): *kwíarnar. Hwien [hwi̇̄ən], two farms: *í kvíum. More common with diphthongal i: [hwei, hwæi, hwäi and kwäi]. de Hweis: [hwæis]; [hwæis, hwäis]; de Hweis [hweis, hwæis] o’ Valsgert. Mostly