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Rh, , definite area at sea, fishing-ground.

$2$,, fog; dimness of the atmosphere.

Further:, , , , $1$, , , , , , , ,

Words in Shetlandic with meanings or partly  to those found in or other Northern languages:

, : bright, shining, in  now dark; storm-menacing.


 * , to Edm.: old  seal (see under, ).

-grice: and  boggris.

,, doubtful.

-foal: filly? see Edm.

With changed meaning:

and, , from bóndi. To this, ,

Verbs preserved only in the past participle, partly used adjectivally:

grund: *barinn, from berja,, to beat. ( * in
 * *brimbarðr).


 * and.

Adjectives in the neuter used as substantives:

,, new, green corn growing among the ripe, in the field: *ilskótt (corn), from $1$,, ilska, , malice; enmity,

,, rancour; enmity, from “illt”, , from illr, , bad; evil; hostile.

Sometimes old prefixes, diminutives, have become separated from words (adjectives) to which they belonged. They have then become substantives. Thus:, a small creature or thing, formed from the prefix “ur” (= or, ir), is used as a diminutive in and as a prefix to “liten”.

In the same prefix has also developed independently, but as an adjective in the form, in sense of very small.

Compounds in which one or more parts have become obscure:

(-, -), [hulefer (haser)],, , ,.

Metathesis of parts in compounded words:

for (blind-man’s-buff),  for .

(Kwarf?), name of a farm. *Swalastofa (a room with a balcony).