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Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian — John Shaqi

Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and ScandinavianFlom, George T. (George Tobias)

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Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian

Name: Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian
Author: Flom, George T. (George Tobias)

Flom, George T. (George Tobias)

Scots language; Scots language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Scandinavian

GRAYTH, GRAITH, _sb._ equipment, possessions. Dunbar, 229; Lyndsay,
    154, 4753; Burns, 23, 18. O.N. _græiða_, means "tools,
    possessions," originally "order." Cp. the vb. In Douglas,
    III, 3, 25, _graith_ means "preparation."

GRAITHLY, _adv._ directly, speedily. Bruce, XIX, 708; X, 205. O.N.
    _græiðliga_, readily, promptly.

GRITH, _sb._ peace, truce. Wallace, X, 884. O.N., O. Dan. _grið_,
    truce, protection, peace. O. Sw. _grið_, _gruð_. Occurs very
    often in the parts of the A-S. Chronicle dealing with the wars
    with the Danes, for the first time in 1002. "_Frið and grið_,"
    meant "truce," or "peace and protection." See Steenstrup's
    discussion of these words, pp. 245-250.

GROUF, on growfe, _adj._ prone, on one's face. Douglas, IV, 20, 24;
    Dunbar, 136, 12. O.N. _á grúfu_, grovelling. Norse _aa gruva_,
    id., O. Sw. _a gruvo_. Sw. diall. _gruva, å gruv_, Dan. _paa
    gru_.

GRYS, GRYCE, _sb._ a pig. Douglas, II, 143, 14; Lyndsay, 218, 300;
    Montg., F., 88. O.N. _griss_, a young pig, swine, O. Dan.
    _gris_, Norse _gris_.

GUKK, _vb._ to act the fool. Dunbar, F., 497. Probably to be derived
    from _gowk_, sb. a fool. It cannot very well come from _geck_,
    to jest, the vowels do not correspond. In Poet. R., 108, 5,
    _gukit_ means "foolish, giddy."

GYLL, _sb._ cleft, glen, ravine. Douglas, III, 148, 2; Sat. P., 12,
    71. O.N. _gil_, a narrow glen with a stream at the bottom,
    Norse _gil_, _gyl_, a mountain ravine. Cp. Cu. _gill_,
    _ghyll_.

GYLMYR, _sb._ a ewe in her second year. C.S., 66. O.N. _gymbr_,
    a ewe lamb a year old, also _gymbr-lamb_, Norse _gymber_,
    Dan. _gimber_, M.E. _gimbir_, _gimbyr_, Cu. _gimmer_. In
    northwestern England and Scotland assimilation of _mb_ to
    _mm_ took place. Our word has excrescent _l_, cp. _chalmer_,
    not uncommon.

GYRTH, _sb._ a sanctuary, protection. Bruce, IV, 47; II, 44; C.S.,
    115. O.N. _grið_, a sanctuary, a truce. O. Sw. _grið_, _gruð_,
    M.Norse _gred_, protection. Cu. _gurth_, cp. _grith_.

GYRTH _sb._ a hoop for a barrel, the barrel. R.R., 27, 81. O.N.
    _gjörð_, a girdle, a hoop, Dan. _gjord_, Norse _gjord_,
    _gjaar_, _gjoir_, hoop, girdle, O.E. form _gyrd_. Cp. O.N.
    _girða_, to gird, and _girði_, wood for making hoops.

GYRTHYN, _sb._ saddle-strap, saddle-band. Wyntoun, VIII, 36, 64.
    O.N. _gjörð_. See Skeat, _girth_. Our word is not nominative
    pl. as the editor of Wyntoun takes it, but is the singular
    originally pr. p. of _girth_, to gird, to strap. In Poet. R.
    113, occurs the form _girthing_. Cp. Cu. _girting_,
    _girtings_.

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