SNITE, vb. to blow the nose, to snuff a candle.  Jamieson.  O.N.
    snyta, Norse snyta, used exactly the same way, Dan.
    snyde.  Sw. snute and M.L.G. snuten have unumlauted vowel
    which would have given snoot, snowt, or snoit in Sco.

SOCK, vb. to examine, investigate.  Fergusson, 169.  Probably from
    O.N. saekja, to seek, Norse soeka, soekja, Dan. soege
    since O. Nhb. saeca later became s[-e]ca and developed as
    W.S. secan.

SOLANDE, sb. a soland goose.  Dalr., I, 25, 1.  O.N. sula + n
    (Skeat).  The d is epenthetic.  The n is the post-positive
    definite article, a peculiarly Scand. characteristic.

SOP, sb. a round, compact body.  Bruce, III, 47.  O.N. soppr,
    a ball (Skeat), Norse sopp, id.  Cp.  Cu. sop, “a milk-
     maid’s cushion for the head.”

SOUM, sb. The rope or chain a plow is drawn by.  Dunbar, III, 126,
    21.  O.N. saumr, a seam, trace.  In Bruce, X, 180, hede-
     soyme, sb. the trace.

SOYM, sb. trace of a cart.  Bruce, X, 233.  From O.N. saumr,
    a seam (Skeat), Norse saum, Dan. soem.  For oy in place of
    ou, as we should expect, cp. gowk and goilk, lowp and
    loip, etc., and the Norse laupa and loipa.

SPAE, SPA, vb. to prophesy.  Douglas, II, 142, 2; II, 2; Burns, 37,
    2, 2.  O.N. spa, to prophesy, Norse spaa, Dan. spaa, id. 
    Cp. spaamand, spaafolk, and Sco. spaeman, spaefolk,
    spaewife.

SPAY, SPE, sb. prophecy, omen, augury.  Dalr., II, 5, 8; Isaiah,
    XLVII, 12.  O.N. spa, a prophecy. V[o,]luspa, the vala’s
    prophecy, M.E. spa.

SPAEQUEAN, sb. fortune teller, spaewife.  Isaiah, XLVII.  O.N.
    spakona, a woman who spaes.  The compound may, however,
    be Sco.

SPALE, sb. lath, chip, splinter.  R.R., 1979; Burns, 132, 114. 
    Norse spela, spila, speil, a splinter, a chip, also
    spol.  O.N. spoelr, a rail, bar, lattice work, sometimes
    means “a short piece of anything.”  Cu. speal.  The O.E. word
    is speld. Cp.  Fr. espalier.

SPENN, vb. to button, to lace.  Jamieson.  O.N. spenna, to clasp. 
    Norse spenna, lace, spenne sb. a buckle, Dan. spaende,
    Sw. spaenne, to lace.  The O.E. word is spannan, without
    umlaut.  The meaning as well as the form of the Sco. word is
    Scand.

SPRACK, adj. lively, animated.  Jamieson.  O.N. spr[’ae]kr, quick,
    strong, sprightly, Norse spraek, spry, nimble, Dan. spraek,
    M.E. sprac.  This is one of a few undoubted Scand. words
    found in South Eng. diall.