GRYS, GRYCE, sb. a pig.  Douglas, II, 143, 14; Lyndsay, 218, 300;
    Montg., F., 88.  O.N. griss, a young pig, swine, O. Dan.
    gris, Norse gris.

GUKK, vb. to act the fool.  Dunbar, F., 497.  Probably to be derived
    from gowk, sb. a fool.  It cannot very well come from geck,
    to jest, the vowels do not correspond.  In Poet.  R., 108, 5,
    gukit means “foolish, giddy.”

GYLL, sb. cleft, glen, ravine.  Douglas, III, 148, 2; Sat.  P., 12,
    71.  O.N. gil, a narrow glen with a stream at the bottom,
    Norse gil, gyl, a mountain ravine.  Cp.  Cu. gill,
    ghyll.

GYLMYR, sb. a ewe in her second year.  C.S., 66.  O.N. gymbr,
    a ewe lamb a year old, also gymbr-lamb, Norse gymber,
    Dan. gimber, M.E. gimbir, gimbyr, Cu. gimmer.  In
    northwestern England and Scotland assimilation of mb to
    mm took place.  Our word has excrescent l, cp. chalmer,
    not uncommon.

GYRTH, sb. a sanctuary, protection.  Bruce, IV, 47; II, 44; C.S.,
    115.  O.N. grieth, a sanctuary, a truce.  O. Sw. grieth, grueth,
    M.Norse gred, protection.  Cu. gurth, cp. grith.

GYRTH sb. a hoop for a barrel, the barrel.  R.R., 27, 81.  O.N.
    gjoereth, a girdle, a hoop, Dan. gjord, Norse gjord,
    gjaar, gjoir, hoop, girdle, O.E. form gyrd.  Cp.  O.N.
    giretha, to gird, and girethi, wood for making hoops.

GYRTHYN, sb. saddle-strap, saddle-band.  Wyntoun, VIII, 36, 64. 
    O.N. gjoereth.  See Skeat, girth.  Our word is not nominative
    pl. as the editor of Wyntoun takes it, but is the singular
    originally pr. p. of girth, to gird, to strap.  In Poet.  R.
    113, occurs the form girthing.  Cp.  Cu. girting,
    girtings.

HAILSE, vb. to greet, salute.  Bruce, II, 153; C.S., 141.  O.N.
    helsa, older haeilsa, to hailsay one, to greet, O. Sw.
    helsa, Dan. hilse, Norse helsa, id., M.E. hailsen. 
    This word is entirely different from O.E. healsian, which is
    heals + ian and meant “beseech, implore,” literally
    “embrace.”  The form of this was halsian in O. Nhb., from
    which Sco. hawse, to embrace.

HAILSING, HALSING, sb. a salute, greeting.  Douglas, II, 243, 31;
    Dunbar “Freires of Berwick” 57; Rosw. and Lill. 589.  O.N.,
    O. Sw., Norse helsa, see above; Norse helsing, Dan.
    hilsning, a greeting. Hailsing formed direct from the vb.
    hailse.