TRAIST, vb. to trust. Bruce, I, 125; XVII,
273; Rolland, I, 27.
Trast, adj.
secure, traist, sb. confidence.
Lindsay,
229, 195. Traisting,
sb. confidence, reliance, L.L., 25.
Cp. O.N. troeysta,
adj. traustr, and Eng. trust,
M.E.
trusten. I do
not at present understand the relation between
the forms in e, and
these in u and ou.
TRIG, adj. trim, neat, handsome. M.W.,
159, 26. O.N. tryggr,
true, trusty, unconcerned,
trygging, security, O. Dan.
trygd, trugd,
confidence (Schlyter), Norse trygg,
secure, unconcerned, confident,
tryggja, to consider secure,
tryggja sek, feel secure,
Dan. tryg, fearless, confident.
Cp. Cu. trig,
tight, well-fitted, “trig as an apple.”
The
M.E. trig means faithful,
see B-S. Ramsay, II, 526, uses the
adv. trigly in the
sense of “proudly.”
TWIST, sb. twig, branch. Bruce, VII, 188;
Montg., C. and S.,
Irving, 468. O.N. kvistr,
a twig, O. Dan., quist, Norse,
Dan. kvist, Sw. quist,
id. For the change of kv (kw)
to tw cp. Norse,
Dan. kviddre, Sw. quittra, Du.
kwittern with Eng.
twitter, and kj to tj in W.Norse.
A regular change.
TYNE, vb. lose, impair, destroy. C.S.,
3; Wyntoun, IX, 21, 14;
R.R. 779. O.N. tyna,
to lose, destroy, Norse tyna, to
lose, sometimes impair, Sw.
dial. tyna, to destroy.
TYNSELL, TYNSALE, sb. loss. Bruce, V,
450, XIX, 449; R.R., 505. In
Wyntoun, IX, 3, 25, it means
“delay, loss of time,” frequently
means “loss of life,
slaughter.” M.E. tinsel, loss, ruin,
probably a Sco. formation
from tyne, to lose, similarly in
Norse tynsell, loss
(not frequent), from tyna.
TYNSALE, vb. to lose, suffer loss. Bruce, XIX, 693. See the sb.
TYTT, adj. firm, tight. Wallace, VII,
21, 2. O.N. þittr, tight,
close, Norse, tett
or titt, Dan. taet, Sw. taet,
close
together, tight, Eng. dial.
theet. The long vowel in theet
is unusual.
UG, vb. to dislike, abhor. Winyet, II,
31, 32; Scott, 71, 119.
O.N. ugga, abhor, Norse
ugga, see B-S.
UGSUM, adj. fearful. Sat. P., 3,
135. See ug. Ougsum, Howlate,
I, 8, means “ugly.”
UNDERLIE, adj. wonderful. Gau, 29, 24.
Dan. underlig, Norse,
underleg, O.N. underlegr,
wonderful, shows Scand. loss of
w before u.
The O.E. word is wundorlic, cp. Scand.
ulf, Eng. wolf.
The word is Dan. in Gau.


