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.


