In addition to these, _blain_, "to become white," is a Scand. loan- word, but rather from Dan. _blegne_ than Norse _blæikna_, cp. _blake_ above. _Blained_, adj. "half dry," said of linen hung out to dry, is, of course, simply the pp. of _blain_, cp. Dan. _blegned_. _Skaif_, "distant, wild, scattered abroad, or apt to be dispersed" (is the definition given), corresponds exactly to O.N. _skæif_ in form, but not in meaning. _Skæif_ meant "crooked." Sco. _daive_, "to stun, stupefy," is here regularly spelled _deeave_ (_deave_ in Swaledale). It must, then, be derived from O.E. _deafian_, not O.N. _döyfa_, O. Ic. _deyfa_. Swaledale _slaiching_, "sneaking," is the same as O.N. _slæikja_, "to lick"; a secondary meaning of O.N. _slæikja_ is "to sneak"; _keeal_, "kail," could come from O.N. _kál_ or Gael. _cál_. It is probably from the latter. The word _slaister_, "to dawdle, to waste one's time," is not clear. The sb. _slaisterer_, "a slink, an untidy person," is also found. The _ai_ indicates an original diphthong. It is probably the same as Norse _slöysa_, sb. "an untidy person," as vb. "to be untidy, to be careless." _Ster_ (_slais_ + _ster_) would, then, be an Eng. suffix, or it may be the same as that in Sco. _camstary_, cp. Germ. _halsstarrig_. The Norse word _slöysa_ is probably not the direct source of the Eng. dialect word. _Slaister_, however, for _slöysa_, seems to be a recent word in Norse. _Skane_, "to cut the shell fish out of the shell" (Wall, list B), is to be derived from O.N. _skæina_, rather than from O.E. _scænan_. _Slade_, "breadth of greensward in plowed land," cannot be from O.N. _slettr_, "plain," _sletta_, "a plain." Neither form nor meaning quite correspond. The Sw. _slägd_ corresponds perfectly in form but not in meaning. It is, however, probably from O.E. _slæd_. This word is taken from Wall's list, not from the works named above. 22. CELTIC, LOWLAND SCOTCH, AND NORSE. In Gaelic and Irish, in the Western Isles and the Highlands, considerable Norse elements are found as the result of Norse occupancy that continued in the Isles, at least, for several hundred years. A number of words that have come into Gaelic and Irish from Norse are also found in Lowland Scotch. In some cases it seems that the word has not come into Lowland Scotch direct from Norse, but by way of Gaelic or Irish. Craigie has given a list of about 200 words in Gaelic that seem to come from Norse. Out of these I will take a few that have corresponding words in Scotch: