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warmth, partly No. basa, vb., to spread on liberally. See below, bas, vb., and cf. also bus, rus, sb. and vb.

bas³, sb., see busbas, sb.

bas [bas, bās], vb., to build up a fire; to get a fire to blaze up by piling peats on the fire-place, to “b. on” a (great) fire. Fe. [bas], Uⁿ. [bās]; in Y.: bås [bås: Yⁿ., båås, bå^as: Y^h.], to bås on a (great) fire. Is partly No. basa, vb., to spread on liberally, “b. paa”, partly Sw. dial. basa, vb., to warm; heat. Cf. bus and rus, sb. and vb.

basek [basək], sb., ship. Tabu-word at sea. Yⁿ. Prob. from a verb *basa, to splash; plash, in Sw. dial. also: to run.

basel [basəl], sb., 1) a splash; plash; commotion, as e.g. of a fish on the surface of the water or in the bottom of a boat, de basels o’ a turbot [‘halibut’]; 2) toil and moil; hard work. *basl. See basel, vb.

basel [basəl], vb., 1) to splash; plash; to make quick movements, as e.g. fish on the surface of the water or in the bottom of a boat; de fish basels (is baslin’). 2) to work hard; to toil; struggle with something, to b. awa [‘away’] at onyting [‘something’], to b. against de wind. *basla. No., Icel. and Sw. basa, vb., to splash; beat; plash; gambol; exert oneself; to slave; strive.

†bati [bati], sb., a great pile; mass, esp. of fish after a fortunate catch; “ye’re gotten a b. o’ her dis mornin’”, you have had a good catch (of fish) this morning. N^w. (Esh.). Orig. uncertain. O.N. bati?

bäd, sb., see bad, sb.

bägerplett, sb., and -pletted, adj., see boger-.

bäil [bäil], sb., small lump; clod of earth. uncomm. Must be the same word as ball (q.v.). Another bäil, eart’-b., a piece of quaking soil, a place where water has oozed

in and raised the surface of the earth, is prob. the Eng. “bile”, sb., in sense of boil; swelling.

bäilki, sb., see bilki, sb.

bäitel [bäitəl, bäƫəl], vb., to bite pieces out of something; mostly in perf. part.: bäiteld [bäitəld, bäƫəld], a) bit off or gnawed around the edges, e.g.: a bäiteld bit o’ bread, b) frayed; notched; very much worn at the edges, e.g.: a bäiteld piece o’ wood. N.I. *bitla and *bitlaðr, deriv. of O.N. bíta, vb., to bite. Cf. b(a)itlek and bitel, sb.

bäitlek, sb., see bitlek.

bäinter, sb., see binder, sb.

bäll, vb., see ball², vb.

banjek [bäᶇək, (bꜵ̈ᶇək)], sb., a round stone which is very easy to handle or throw (Wests.: Fo.); hard, lumpy stone (Nm^w.: Esh.). For the possible origin of the word see further under binjek.

bärflog, vb., and bärfloga, sb., see barflog, vb.

bå-. For words beginning with phonetic bå, see under bo-.

⁽*⁾be [bē], sb., is found sometimes as a name of a hillock, hill-side, thus: Krokri(g)s be [krɔk··ərıs· bē] (Sund near Lerwick, m.). *beð-. Cf. No. bed, m., a bank or solid pile; elevation (R.), heap (R. suppl.), L.Sc. (reported) bae, bay, sb., mass; heap. “be”, in sense of slope, might also suggest No. bedja, f., in sense of resting-place for (small) animals. O.N. beðr, m., is handed down in sense of mattress; feather-bed; bolster. “Krokri(g)s” is doubtless an orig. *Krák-hryggs; cf. the Fær. place-name “Krákuriggur”. — As a common noun: be, bei [bɛ̄i] and bæi [bǣi] are found in Shetl. in the sense of slight elevation; knoll; lump.

bedek, sb., see vedek, sb.

befal(l), sb., see bafall.

begel [begəl], vb., to crumple; dent; put out of shape, to b. a hat,