THWAITE, _sb._ originally a small piece of cleared land on which ahouse was built, a cottage with its paddock. O.N. _þvæit_, O. Ic. _þveit_. Northwest England _thwaite_, Norse _tveit_, _tvæit_, Dan. _tved_. Occurs in a number of place-names in S. Scotland, especially in Dumfriesshire. Its form is Norse not Dan. _Thweet_ or _thwet_ would correspond to the Dan. word, but see also Part III, 1. TIT, TYT, adv. soon, quickly. Bruce, II, 4; IV, 289. O.N. _títt_, adv. frequently, in quick succession, "höggva hart ok títt." The Sco. word comes from this O.N. form, which is simply the neuter inflected form of _tiðr_, adj. meaning "customary, familiar." The comparative _titter_ often means "rather" in Sco., like Eng. _sooner_. Cp. Cu. "I'd as tite deat as nut," "I'd as lief do it as not." TITHAND, TITAND, _sb._ news, tidings. Bruce, IV, 468; Lyndsay, 341, 720. O.N. _tiðindi_, news, Norse _tidende_, id., Dan. _tidende_, Orm. _tiþennde._ Of O.E. _tidung_ > _tidings_ Bosworth says: "the use of the word, even if its form be not borrowed from Scand., seems to have Scand. influence." TITLENE, _sb._ the hedge sparrow. C.S., 38. O.N. _titlingr_, a tit, a sparrow. TOYM, TUME, _sb._ leisure. Bruce, V, 64, 2, XVII, 735. O.N. _tóm_, leisure (Skeat). 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. _tröysta_, _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. _týna_, to lose, destroy, Norse _tyna_, to lose, sometimes impair, Sw. dial. _tyna_, to destroy.