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LXXXVI Shetlandic Norn words found only in :

,, inflammation, bólga,

,, , box-bed, paufi, , out-of-the-way nook.

,, blórar,

(-,, ), , swamp,  dýna.

,, small cluster (corn-stalk),  lyskra,

Shetlandic Norn words or meanings found only in :

, =  bløkubein,

,, a buoy,  prilla, a leather-sack.

(*) = flidnasoð, water in which limpets have been scalded, from fliða,, limpet. flida, , flake, splinter. ,, limpet, which is the same word as fladra, , a small splinter. flither (flidder), in  and in the Isle of Man, is used of limpets.

$1$,, the fill of two hands cupped together = keymur [*kaumr] and kjómur. is more regularly developed from kaumr than from kjómr, the latter of which would more correctly have given *kjum, *gjum, in ; au, ǫu, on the other hand, regularly give jo.

,, mottled, of sheep = iglutur (iglóttur), , [*iglóttr,
 * yglóttr?].

Shetlandic words, especially corresponding to dialect words, or found only in :

,  =  bänne (bende),.

, =  bladda,

$2$, , to be classed with  blaga,

,, faint; limp; tired, datta, , to weary; exhaust.

,, hollow = dank(e),  ( dǫkk, ,  dekk, bottom of the sea).

, 3, thick mud,  dikkel,, mud in a morass.

,, , supernatural or infernal being (of elf or fairy origin) = gonnar, gonnär, , trolls.

$1$, ($2$, ), soft, slimy mass =  gytja, mire; mud ( gota, melted mass, in Aa., but queried. In halvgota).

Shetlandic words found only in (a few also in ).

,, in sense of hill, hill-side, corresponding to bakke. Otherwise =  brekka, while  more often denotes brink; edge; bank; steep coast.

,, , corresponds to “brink”, in sense of a common.

$n$,, a ghost = genfærd,  genfärd.

, =  gødning (manure).