Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 139 pages of information about Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch.

Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 139 pages of information about Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch.

BULLER, vb. to trickle, bubble.  Winyet, II, 62.  O.N. buldra,
    Norse bulrdra.  See E.D.D. cp.  Sw. bullra, to make an
    indistinct noise.  O. Fr. bulder, L.G. bullern (see
    Koolman), Germ. poltern all have more the idea of loud
    noise, clamor, as the Norse word sometimes has.  Lyndsay, 226,
    95, uses the word in this sense.  It may be genuine Eng.

BUSK, vb. to prepare, dress, adorn, ornament.  O.N. buask from
    bua sik, to make ready, to ornament.  See Wall.  Exhibits
    W. Scand. reflexive ending sk.  The Gael. busgainnich, to
    dress, to adorn, is a loanword from O.N.

BUSKIE, adj. fond of dress, Jamieson, busk sb. dress,
    decoration.  See busk vb.

BUITH ([-u]), sb. booth, shop.  Winyet, 1, 23, 2.  O.N. bueth, shop,
    O. Dan. both, bodh.  O. Sw. boeth, Norse bud, Sw. bod,
    Dan. dial. bod.  M.E. b[-o]þe, cp.  M.L.G. bode.

BYNG, vb. to heap up.  Douglas, III, 144, 5.  See bing sb.

BYRD, vb. impers., it behoved.  Bruce, VI, 316.  O.N. byrja, to
    behove, beseem, pret. burethi, Norse byrja id., pret.
    burde, O. Dan. boerae, Sw. boera.

BYSNING, adj. strange, monstrous, terrible, Douglas, I, 29, 7;
    I, 37, 5; II, 70, 17.  M.E. biseninge, ill-boding, monstrous,
    from O.N. bysna, to portend, Norse bisna, to marvel over.

BYSNING, sb. a strange person, an unusually unfortunate person. 
    Douglas, I, 2544; I, 339.  O.N. bysna, to portend, bysn,
    a strange and portentous thing.  Norse bysn, a prodigy,
    bysning, curiosity.  See the adj.  Cp.  Shetland soni-bosni,
    O.N. sjonar-bysn, a marvel.

CADYE, adj. wanton.  Lyndsay, LXXXVII, 2567.  Also written cady,
    caidgy, caigie; sometimes means “sportive, cheerful.”  Dan.
    kaad, merry, lusty, lustful.  So Sw. kat, O.N. katr,
    merry, cheerful, Norse kaat.  Cp.  Philotus 5, “the carle
    caiges,” where the same word is used as a vb. to wanton, be
    wanton.

CALLER, adj. cool.  Fergusson, 73.  Very common in modern Sco.
    diall.  O.N. kaldr, Norse kall, cold.  Seems to be a case
    of the Norse inflexional r not disappearing in Sco.

CANGLER, a wrangler.  Ramsay, II, 482.  Norse kengla, kaeingla,
    kjaeingla, to quarrel.  A Sco. vb. cangle, to quarrel, also
    exists.  Cp.  O.N. kangin-yrethi, jeering words, Yorkshire
    caingy, cross, ill-tempered.

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