GAELIC OR IRISH. LOWLAND SCOTCH. OLD NORSE. gardha garth garðr lobht loft loft prine prin prjónn stop stoup staup sgeap skep skeppa sainseal hansell handsal gaort girt, girth giörð cnapp, cneap knap knappr maol mull múli sgeir sker sker scarbh scarth scarfr gead ged, gedde gedda scát scait skata brod brod broddr masg mask _Dan._ maske rannsaich ransack, runsick rannsaka _Garth_ and _loft_ agree perfectly with the O.N. and are not doubtful. With the Gael. _gardh_ cp. O.N. _garðr_ and O. Sw. _gardher_. The Sco. _garth_ has changed the original voiced spirant to a voiceless one. In Gael. _lobht_ _f_ has become _v_. _Prin_ is rather doubtful. There is an O.E. _prēon_ from which the Gael. word may have come. The Sco. word _prin_ does not seem to come from either O.E. _prēon_ or O.N. _prjónn_, but from the Gael. _prine_. There is a Northern dialectic _prēon_ which may come from O.E. _prēon_. There is also a _pren_ in Dan. dial. _Stoup_ has the Norse diphthong which has been simplified in Gael. _stop_. _Skep_ is a little doubtful because of meaning. The loanword _sgeap_ in Gael. has the specialized meaning of "a beehive." This meaning the Sco. word has very frequently, the Norse to my knowledge never. It may be a case of borrowed meaning from Gael. _Girth_ is from the Norse. _Girt_ is probably simply change of _th_ to _t_, which is also found elsewhere in Sco. _Knap_ may be from either. _Mull_ in Sco. may be native English. The word occurs in L.G. _Sker_ is from O.N. _Skarth_ is anomalous, showing change of _f_ to _th_. In the Gael. _scarbh_, _f_ is changed to _v_ as in _lobht_. _Ged_ is nearer the O.N. _Scait_ could be from either, as also _brod_. Sco. _mask_ is probably not at all a loanword, and may be from older _mex_ by metathesis of _s_; cp. O.E. _mexfat_ and Sco. _maskfat_ cited by Skeat, Et. Dict. The Gael. _masg_ is probably not a loanword from the Scand., but from O.E., or perhaps from O.Sco. An O. Nhb. _mesk_ probably existed. _Ransack_ agrees with the Norse word. The spelling _runsick_ found once (Wallace VII, 120), probably does not represent the exact sound, and is, in any case, as _ransack_ to be derived from the O.N. and not through the Gael. _Faid_, "a company of hunters," has already once been referred to. This cannot possibly come from the O.N. _væiðr_, for while the spirant _ð_ sometimes becomes _d_, O.N. _v_ regularly becomes _w_ in Sco. (rarely _v_). We should expect the form _waith_, and this is the form we have in Wallace I, 326, in the sense "the spoil of the chase." There is a Gael.