are Scandinavian loanwords.  Ellis’s list offers too few examples of words of this class.  We find hi’m, bi’n, hi’l, sti’n, and in Murray’s D.S.C.S. heame, and heale (beside geate (O.N. gata), beath, meake, tweae, neame, etc.).  This then proves that Sco. haim, bain, hail, and stain are from O.E. h[-a]m, b[-a]n, h[-a]l, st[-a]n and not from O.N. haeim, baeinn, haeil, staeinn. Mair, in spite of its e-vowel, is not from O.N. maeir, for a following r prevented the development to i, as a rule, although in Cumberland meear is found beside mair.  The word “steak” (O.N. staeik), which occurs in Ellis’s list, has had an irregular development and cannot be considered here (see further Luik, 323).  In the following works are found a number of words of this class: 

  Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, by J.R.  Smith.  London. 1839.

  A Glossary of Words and Phrases of Cumberland, by William
  Dickinson.  London. 1859.

  Folk Speech of Cumberland, by Alexander Craig Gibson.  London.
  1873.

  A Glossary of Words used in Swaledale, Yorkshire, by John Harand. 
  E.D.S. 1873.

  Whitby Glossary, by F.K.  Robinson.  E.D.S. 1876.

  21.  A LIST OF SOME WORDS THAT ARE NORSE.  FURTHER REMARKS.

These all aim at giving the phonetic value of the sounds.  O.E., O.N. [-a] is represented by ea or eea, indicating i-fracture.  For instance:  heam, steean, neam, geat, beeath, leath (O.N. laethi), heeal, brea (O.N. br[-a]), breead (O.E. br[-a]d, not O.N. braei), greeay, blea, etc.  Those that have a, ai, or ay, that is an e-vowel, and must consequently be derived from the corresponding O.N. words, are the following: 

    BLAKE, adj. yellow, pale, O.N. blaeikr. 
    BLAKEN, vb. to turn yellow, N.N. blaeikna. 
    CLAME, vb. to adhere, O.N. klaeima. 
    CLAM, adj. slimy, deriv. 
    CLAMING, sb. adhesive material, deriv. 
    FLAY, vb. to frighten, O.N. fleya. 
    FLAYTLY, adv. timidly, deriv. 
    HAIN, vb. to save, protect, O.N. hegna. 
    LAKE, LAIKE, vb. to play, O.N. laeika, cp.  O.E. l[-a]can. 
    LAKEING, sb. a toy, deriv. 
    LAVE, sb. the remainder, O.N. laeifr, cp.  O.E. l[-a]f. 
    RATE, vb. to bleach, whiten, O.N. r[-o]yta.  M.L.G. roten,
      is out of the question, and *_reeat_ would be the form
      corresponding to M.L.G. raten. 
    SLAKE, vb. to smear,