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Rh The pronunciation [ȯ] of o in * and partly also in, with , indicates that it is the mutated form fjǫru. In the same manner [skȯda] with [ȯ] is doubtless a mutated form from , , like  skodda,  sködda.

and, limpets, patella: *flaðra. [flōd(ə)rək] may be developed from [flād(ə)rək], without being due to u-mutation. [flȯd··rək·], on the other hand, is rather a mutated form *flǫðra from flǫðru, [ȯ] not being regularly developed from a.

[hȯmlɩ- (hɔmli-)] and [homlɩ-], [homla-] and [hȯmblɩ-], oar-grummet, presupposes the mutated form hǫmlu- from hamla,

There is no mutation in *,, from an original *aurvaka, , eyrvøka. On the other hand, o is found for a in the place-name [vɔga], de hole o’ V. (Hubi, ), a piece of moist, muddy soil: originally doubtless *vaka,

Without u-mutation:, , woman.

[riŋ, reŋ], knee-timber in the stem of a boat, goes back to the mutated form “rǫng” [from *rangu] in, because short i and short u (o) often alternate in Shetlandic.

In a similar sense, [stɩŋ, steŋ], mast (tabu-word, sea-term) has arisen from stǫng [ *stangu],, bar; pole. An older form, is, however, found in ShetlShetl. [sic]. The form [stɛŋ], in which ɛ may have arisen either from i or a, is under doubt.

[spɔŋ]: spǫng. Place-name: [spɩŋ].

[spɔŋət, spåŋət, spȯŋət]: *spǫngóttr.

, thick gruel or porridge: *stanga,

, [ā],, a cake, flour-dumpling,  stands for kaka, kaka and koka,  køka. cannot be directly developed from a *. Whether any u-mutation appears in the Shetlandic word cannot be proved by the vowel-sound.
 * , * [*ō] with diphthongization from an older * [*kōg]:

The u-mutation can be exactly proved in * [gøda, ꬶøda], , way, path, as ø here can only be developed from ǫ in “gǫtu”, must be accepted as a mutated form. “goda, gøda”, now only a place-name, is remembered as a common noun, in  gødins [gødɩns], in “de Midgødins”, is  form:  gǫturnar, with a later added  s.
 * gata. Besides *, the form * [gȯda, ꬶȯda], and (rarely)
 * [ꬶȯta], is found, and on account of the [ȯ]-sound,

As a veritable place-name, name of a farm, [gɔt, gōt] is found:  *í gǫtu. See under *,, in the Dictionary. Corresponding to the forms are  gota and  gøta (as a place-name in Færoe: í Gøtu).

[sᶄød··əro‘mp·], name of a flat skerry, is an *skǫtu-rumpa, tail of a ray, from skata, , ray.  “de Skate o’ Islesburgh” as the name of a flat skerry. -, as the ø-sound shows, is the mutated form.

[nås], name of a small, elevated isle in the list of names