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.

SWARF, vb. originally to turn, then to overturn, fall over, fall. 
    Burns, 211, 87, 4.  O.N. svarfa, to turn aside, to be turned
    upside down, Sw. swarfve, Norse svarva, turn, swing about,
    Dan. svarve or svarre.  Eng. swerve does not quite
    correspond.  O.E. sweorfan meant “to file, polish,” O.S.
    swerban, to wipe off, polish, O.F. swerva, to creep.

SWAGE, SWEY, vb. sway, waver, also turn, make turn.  Sat.  P., 5, 8;
    Douglas, II, 104, 12.  O.N. svaeigja, to bend, to sway, Dan.
    sveie, Sw. dial. svaeiga, Norse sveigja.

SYTE, sb. grief, suffering.  Lyndsay, 273, 333.  Montg., M.P.,
    V, 14.  O.N. syta, to wail, syting, sb., sut, grief,
    affliction, Norse sut, care, syta, to care.  Skeat cites
    sut (in list) which would exactly correspond to the O.N. sb. 
    Brate accepts an O.N. sb. syt.

TAIT, adj. foul.  Montg., F., 755.  O.N. taeth.  The change of eth to
    t is unusual.  See Wall.

TANGLE, sb. seaweed, stalk of a seaweed.  Dalr., I, 62, 1; Burns,
    91, 2, 2.  O.N. þoengul, tangle, seaweed.  Cp. þoenglabakki,
    Tangle-hill, name of a place in Iceland.  In Norse tangel
    same as Eng. tangle, entangle.

TANGLING, pr. p., adj. clinging, intertwining.  Burns, 60, 3,
    tangling roots, clinging together in tangles.  See tangle.

TARN, sb. a small lake.  Jamieson.  O.N. tjoern, a small lake,
    Norse tjoenn, tjoern, Sw. tjaern, M.E. terne, a lake. 
    Particularly Sco. and N.W.  Eng.  Cp.  Shetland shon, shoden,
    a pool, a little lake.  The last example exhibits W.Norse
    change of rn to dn.  The form tjoedn occurs in Sogn,
    Norway.

TATH, sb. Jamieson.  O.N. taeth.  See Wall.

TEAL, TILL, vb. to entice.  Wallace, VI, 151, and Jamieson.  O.N.
    taela, to entice, related to Norse telja.  Sco. tealer,
    sb. Jamieson.  The form in i is strange.

TEYND, TEIND, sb, tithe.  C.S., 123; Lyndsay, 152, 4690; Rolland,
    I, 546.  O.N. tiund, the tenth, the tithe, Norse tiende,
    Dan. tiende, the regular ordinal of ti.

THA, dem. pron. these, those.  Same form in all cases.  Wallace, X,
    41; Wyntoun, I, 1, 6.  O.N. þeir.

THECK, vb. to thatch.  Ramsay, II, 224.  Has been taken as a loan-
     word from O.N. þekja, to thatch, Norse tekka, Sw. taecka
    Cp.  O.E. þeccan.  Theck probably comes from O. Nhb. þecca.

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