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Rh, =   hjamsk.

$2$, , blackpudding, a dish made from blood and meal = older humske (hunske), (impure) liquid.

Shetlandic words with English endings.

Norn words, influenced by English, and partly merged with such English words as have a likeness to them in form and pronunciation.

added English endings -ery (in “bravery”), -acy, -ocy.
 * , and *,, formed from , , later with

,, probably from spǫng, , with the first part of compd. in and  “bi” (by, with).

,, crofter’s allotment, , from , , (farmer) crofter; tenant of a piece of land. The ending “-eri” is due to influence of English boundary,

,, properly de-,

,, dorrow, from dorg.

,, doubtful, has got a meaning opposite to the original, as the ending has been accepted as English -ous, and not as the negative -less ( efalauss, undoubtful).

,, drifting snow, from , *fok, later with added English -ency ( clemency).

,, eager, from fúss, eager for, desirous, but influenced in form by fousom (fowsom), fulsome.

=, , powerless, limp in one’s movements.

†,, dainty morsel = goðska,  godskor,  ( ecstasy, clemency, fallacy, heresy, hypocrisy, legacy, lunacy).

, hallow,, wisp of straw, = halge.

,, a period of intermission or lull in rain, anxiety, barbarity, brevity, charity, dexterity, eternity, integrity, rarity.

,, intensive from , , rain.

Words with Old Northern meaning changed in form into   by diversdiverse [sic] influences.

When a Norn word, cognate with an English word and having the same sense, has been superseded by the  form, a similar anglicising sometimes takes place in a Norn word of the same form as the other, but of different meaning.

,, to warm; poultice — baða, , to warm up; f is due to influence of  baff, , to beat.

, fain,, is in form fain, , but corresponds in sense and use u to fagna,, to welcome with good cheer.

, “eel”, a stripe, áll. The old form * has been dropped, as the name for the fish, * has been superseded by “eel”, and the other * has then been changed similarly to “eel”. This change must have taken place at a time when the older (Norn) form *, as a name for the fish, and the more recent form “eel”, were used simultaneously in Shetlandic.