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Shetl.) ald, auld, adj., old, but rather from O.N. alda, Gen. pl. of ǫld, f., mankind; an age, used in the phrase “alda óðal (aldaóðal)”, odal possession in perpetuity.

ali [āli], sb., young animal brought up in the house, O.N. alidýr; also a weakly being (Du.). Cf. ali-grice, ali-lamb, etc.

ali [āli], adj., pet, that follows one about. Conn. From al, ali, vb.

ali [ali]-grice, sb., pig reared or brought up in the house. Comm. *ali-gríss; Sw. dial. alagris, m., id.; O.N. alidýr, n., tame animal; domestic animal (“alisvín”, domesticated pig).

alikadi [ā·likad·i (-käd·i)], sb. domesticated lamb; orphan lamb, fostered or reared in the house. More rarely alakadi [ā·lakad·i]. — For ali- see above. — kadi may also denote a petted child; a malicious fellow, and is doubtless the same word as L.Sc. “cadie”, sb., boy; young fellow; No. kate, m., boy; little boy.

aliklover [ā·liklō·vər] and alikløvin [ā·liklø̄·vin], sb., sheep; lamb, prop. one which is reared at home; tabu-word, used by the fishermen. U. For ali- see “ali-lamb”; for -klover, -kløvin (“hoofed animal”) see kløvin, sb.

alikrabb, sb., see allakrabb.

alikrogi [ā·likrog·i], sb., a weakly animal, not able to stand the cold. Fe. For ali- see ali, sb. krogi prop. animal which seeks shelter, which huddles itself up against bad weather (rain, cold); see further krog and krok, vb.

†alikruki [ā·likruk·i], sb., small univalve (buckie), narrower and with longer spiral or tail than the common so-called “grey buckie”. Fe. With kruki, may be compared krok- in the diminutive deriv. kroklin, small mussel, Icel. and Fær. kræk-

lingur, as well as Icel. krákuskel, a species of mussel, and with ali it might be reasonable to think of O.N. hali, m., tail, on account of the long spiral of the shell. However, Dut. “alikruik” has been defined by van Dale as a small univalve, but by Sicherer and Akveld as a scallop.

alilam, ali-lamb [ā··lilam·], sb., lamb reared at home in winter. Comm. *ali-lamb; Icel. alilamb, n., fatted lamb. Cf. ali-grice.

alipati [ā·lipā·ti] or -patti [-pat·i], sb., domesticated pig; sucking-pig, brought up in the house. For ali- see ali, sb., and “ali-grice”. pati, patti, sb., = Da. “pattegris”, sucking-pig.

aliplukkins [ā·liplok·ins], sb. pl., wool plucked from the belly of a sheep (short and inferior wool). Yⁿ. ali- is here prob. an abbr. of O.N. alisauðr, m., sheep reared at home. For the second part of the compd. cf. plukkins and ollaplukk, sb.

allakrabb [aᶅ··akrab·, äᶅ··a-], sb., a variety of round or heart-shaped crab (narrowest in front), the back and legs of which are covered with short woolly hair, crab of the genus maja, spider-crab; generally found in sea-weed. Also called alikrabb [al··ikrab·] and jalakrabb [jal··akrab·]. Uⁿ. allakrabb is also reported as the name of a species of fin-footed crab, swimming crab (Uⁿ.). The first part of the compd. poss. an orig. *aðl-, the same word as A.S. adela, L.G. adel, sb., mud; dirt; uncleanliness, on acc. of the spider-crab’s dirty and disgusting appearance; for the forms alla-, ali-, jala- cf. “al” in Da. and Sw. dials. as a parallel form to “adel”, cow wash; liquid manure, and cf. the bird-names alamuti and alan. alla-, ali-, jala- might, however, poss. be explained from O.N. aðal, n., as a first part in compds.: head-, arch- (cf. older Da. adelfalk,