COG, KOG, COGGIE, sb. a keg, a wooden vessel
of any kind.
Ferguson, 13; Burns, 195,
51, 2; 195, 50, 6. O.N. kaggi,
Norse kagge, Dan.
Sw. kagge, a cask, a barrel. Skeat cites
the form cag for Eng.
diall. The Sco. word preserves more
closely the Norse sound, which
is not o, but a. On L.G.
cognates see Skeat Et.D.
COSTLYK, adj. costly, magnificent. Wyntoun,
VIII, 28, 76; IX, 18,
66, costlike. O.N. kostligr,
costly, choice, desirable.
O. Sw. kosteliker,
O. Dan. kostaelic, N. Dan. kostelig,
Norse kosteleg, costly,
magnificent. Deriv. costlykly.
Wyntoun, VII, 5, 96.
COUR, vb. to bow, to croutch. O.N. kura,
O. Dan. kurae, O. Sw.
kura, Norse kura,
kurra, bend down, become quiet, go to
rest. Norse kurr,
adj. silent, kurrende still, perfectly
quiet, cowered to silence.
The fundamental idea in the O.N.
word was probably that of
“lying quiet.” Cp. Shetland to
cur, to sit down.
Isaiah, LVIII, 5: “His head till cower like
a seggan flouir.”
COW, vb. to overcome, surpass, “beat.”
O.N. kuga, to compel to
something, to tyrannize over.
Dan kue, underkue, suppress,
oppress, Norse kua,
press down, also put into subjection.
The more general meaning in
the modern diall. is “to beat.”
“To cow a’,”
in Barrie, to beat everything; cow’d,
Fergusson
117, terrified.
CRAIK, sb. crow. Burns, 226, 119, 3, and
121, 1. O.N. kraka,
Norse kraake, krauka,
Dan. krage, Shetland kraga,
crow. See also Wall.
CRAVE, vb. to demand payment of a debt, to
dun. A regular Sco. use
of the word. O.E. crafian
is a loanword from Scand. See
Kluge P.G.(2)I, 933.
Cp. Norse kreva, to dun.
CROVE, sb. hut, cottage. Ramsay, I, 158.
O.N. kro, a hut,
a little cottage (Haldorson),
Norse, kro, specialized to
“wine or ale house.”
So in Dan.
CUNNAND, adj. knowing, skilful, dexterous.
Wyntoun, VII, 3, 28;
connand, V, 12, 1243;
Douglas, II, 18, 22. O.N. kunnandi,
knowing, learned, Norse kunnande,
skilled. Deriv.
cunnandly, conandly
(Wallace, I, 248).
CUNNANDNESS, sb. skill, knowledge, wisdom.
Wyntoun, V, 12, 280;
VII, 8, 667. Sb. formation
from cunnand.
DAGGIT, adj. pp. soaked. Montg. S.,
68, 11. O.N. doeggva, to
bedew, doeggottr, covered
with dew, Norse dogga, id., Sw.
dagg, thin, drizzling
rain, O. Sw. dag, dew, Shetland
dag, dew, “he’s
dagen,” it is misting. Cp. Cu. daggy,
misty.


