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LXXXVIII Many Norn words in Shetland have been fully or partly translated into English, but with the special Northern (Norn) meanings preserved.

,, ledge, as peat-bank, and , , steep coast, show anglicising of “bakki”.

doon-lay,, doon-lie, , and various other words beginning with “doon”.

doors,, door, with  meaning. dyrr,, door.

ebb,, in sense of foreshore ( fjara, in sense of foreshore, as well as ebb).

elf(s)wind,, netle-rashnettle-rash [sic], cutaneous eruption.  alvblaaster, alvgust,

fa’-,, epidemic, in cattle, from  fall-sótt, epidemic.

-speak, fore-speak,, to consecrate by reciting a formula: fyrirmæla,

f(r)ae-say,, f(r)ae-tale, , from frásaga or frasǫgn,

Special meanings more recently developed in Shetlandic (as well as older meanings found only in Norn):

,, (heavy rain). a  o’ a fire ($2$, ). , (jarbind). ,, , partly with  meaning to the original. , bjels, ,  ,  2. ,,   to geng. ,, ,    in “-stew”, heavy breakers, surf; otherwise , ,  and  ,  2, skua (gull).

,, , , , 2, , , ,  1 (ancient meaning), ,

,, long, foam-crested billow. , , of billows: to form combers; fax,, a mane. ,  [*]. ,  ,

,, weather phenomena [*gandferð]. ,, *geitill (induration) in, , , , where it means vertebra;, is hardly the same word as geisli, vertebra, because sl does not change to tl (or conversely) in Norn,,  = a) the moon, b) a lamp. sten, sten,

Compounds from Old Northern in Shetlandic, not found in other Northern languages:

,, , (-), ,

,, , -claw, , (-), ,, , , , ,

,, , , , , , ,