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.

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.

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