GOWK, sb. a fool.  O.N. gaukr, Norse gaeuk, O. Sw. goeker, Dan.
    gjoeg.  In Sco. very frequently spelled goilk, golk.  Cu.
    April-gowk, April fool.

GOWL, vb. to scream, yell.  O.N. gaula, Norse gaeula, to yell,
    to scream.  Shetland gjol, gol, to howl, seems to be the
    same word, but the palatal before o is strange.  Cp.  Sco.
    gowle.

GOWLYNGE, sb. screaming, howling.  R.R. 823, pr. p. of gowl. 
    Cp.  O.N. gaulan, Norse gaeuling, sb. screaming.

GRAIP, sb. a dung-fork.  Burns, 38, 1, 2.  Johnnie Gibb, 102, 18;
    214, 21.  Norse graeip, id., Dan. greb, a three-pronged
    fork.

GRAITH, adj. ready, direct.  Bruce, IV, 759; Wallace, V, 76.  O.N.
    graeiethr, ready, Norse greid, simple, clear, ready.  Deriv.
    graithly, directly, Gol. and Gau. 54.  Cp.  Yorkshire
    graidly, proper.

GRAITH, vb. make ready, dress, furnish, equip.  C.S., 39; R.R.,
    424; Psalms XVIII, 32.  O.N. graeietha, to disentangle, set in
    order, make ready.  Norse greide, to dress (the hair).  Cu.
    graitht, dressed.

GRANE, sb. twig, branch.  Douglas, II, 10, 27; Dunbar, 76.  O.N.
    graein, Norse grein, Dan. gren, O. Sw. gren, branch. 
    The Dan. and Sw. forms show monophthongation.  The Sco. word
    agrees best with the Norse.

GRANIT, adj. forked.  Douglas, II, 133, 4.  O.N. graeina, to
    branch, divide into branches, separate.  Norse graeina, Sw.,
    Dan. grena, id., O. Sw. grenadh, adj. forked, Cu.
    grainet.

GRAYTH, GRAITH, sb. equipment, possessions.  Dunbar, 229; Lyndsay,
    154, 4753; Burns, 23, 18.  O.N. graeietha, means “tools,
    possessions,” originally “order.”  Cp. the vb.  In Douglas,
    III, 3, 25, graith means “preparation.”

GRAITHLY, adv. directly, speedily.  Bruce, XIX, 708; X, 205.  O.N.
    graeiethliga, readily, promptly.

GRITH, sb. peace, truce.  Wallace, X, 884.  O.N., O. Dan. grieth,
    truce, protection, peace.  O. Sw. grieth, grueth.  Occurs very
    often in the parts of the A-S.  Chronicle dealing with the wars
    with the Danes, for the first time in 1002. “Frieth and grieth,”
    meant “truce,” or “peace and protection.”  See Steenstrup’s
    discussion of these words, pp. 245-250.

GROUF, on growfe, adj. prone, on one’s face.  Douglas, IV, 20, 24;
    Dunbar, 136, 12.  O.N. a grufu, grovelling.  Norse aa gruva,
    id., O. Sw. a gruvo.  Sw. diall. gruva, a gruv, Dan. paa
    gru.