Page:An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland Part I.pdf/299

fjedin [fjēdin, -ɩn], sb., a sea-term, tabu-name used by fishermen for a whale (comm.: hwal). U., Yⁿ. (Dalseter). Prob.: *feitingr, animal covered with blubber, deriv. of O.N. feitr, adj., fat; cf. No. “feidenakkje” as a jocular name, prop. sea-term, appl. to a seal (De Fine; Aasen in a concluding remark p. 975).

fjeg [fjē^əg], sb., collect. shreds; fibres; rags; tak’ (cut) awa [‘away’] yon [‘that’] f.! Fe. May stand for a *fig [*fi̇̄g] from an older *fyk, n., something drifting. Some instances of je, developed from i (O.N. i, í, y), are given under fjag¹, sb. A development *føyk- > *føg, *fjøg > fjeg is, however, also possible (No. føyk, m., and føykje, n., drifting particles, drift). — See further fjag¹, sb.

fjel [fjēl, fjē^əl], sb., a board; esp. plank in a boat. Conn., U. From Conn. is also reported a form fjæl [fjǣ^əl]. In the form fel [fel, fəl] the word is found as the second part in some compds., esp. dora- or dorifel, fiskafel; q.v. O.N. fjǫl (fjal-), f., a board.

*fjell, *fjel, sb., see fell, sb., and *fjalsgord-dyke.

fjerk, vb., fjerkin, adj., see fjork, fjorkin.

fjevlos (fjeflos), adj., see vevlet (vavlet), adj.

fjilsk, vb., fjilska, sb., fjilsket, adj., see filsk, filska, filsket.

fjim, sb., see fim, sb.

fjiml, fjimel [fjɩməl] and fjimbl, fjimbel [fjɩmbəl], vb., to bungle, struggle with something; foo [‘how’] lang is du gaun [‘going’] to f. aboot yon [‘that’] ting? Uⁿ. For the form cf. No. fimla, vb., to fumble, paw (R.); but the meaning comes nearer to No. fumla, vb., to fumble, bungle (R.).

fjodi [fjodi, fjȯdi], sb., a short skirt, esp. skirt with a bodice; de upper f.; also “f. [fjȯdi-]-skirt”. U. Perhaps from a *fota from an older

*fat. Cf. No. fota, f. (R.), custom; state; order, from “fat”. O.N. fat, n., clothes; dress (fat 3; Fr.).

fjog¹ [fjōg, fjō^əg], sb., loose, untidy dress; to be in a f., to be untidily dressed; de claes is a’ [‘all’] in a f., the clothes hang loosely and untidily about him or her (Esh., Nm^w.). Poss. a later developed parallel form to fjag¹, sb. II? Note, however, the syn. flog² [fᶅōg], sb., the softened l of which might have changed to j, as in flab > fjab.

fjog² or fjug [fjȯg, fjog], sb., 1) light, loose substance; dust; fluff; U. [fjȯg]. 2) too finely ground corn; U. [fjog, fjȯg]. 3) thin covering of detached, misty clouds, loose f. [fjȯg], light, quickly drifting clouds (Y^b.); heavy drift of clouds in the sky, a f. [fjog] ower de sky (N.Roe); haze; der’r [‘there is’] a f. [fjȯg] upo de land (Ai.); cf. fog, sb. — A parallel form with k: fjok or fjuk [fjok], is used in Fe. in sense of: a) = fjog, fjug 1; b) snow falling in small, thin flakes, mostly in calm weather, = fjag¹ I 3 (U.); c) very thin, lean corn, a grain o’ f. — The root-meaning: something light, drifting. The word can be referred partly to O.N. fok, n., drift, drifting, partly and esp. to O.N. fjúk, n., drift, snow-drift, in No. (fjuk) also: flake, drifting fibres. f. 3 is most probably to be referred to “fok”; f. 1 and 2, as well as fjok, fjuk, to “fjúk”.

fjog, fjug [fjog], vb., said of a quern, mill: to grind, crush the corn too finely; de mill fjogs (fjugs) de corn, de corn is fjoget, fjuget [fjogət]. U. Deriv. of fjog², sb. 2.

fjogg¹ [fjȯg], sb., thin, lean, ill-grown corn, = fjag II 2 a. Fe. No. f(j)ogg, fjugg and fjagg, n., poor, scantily growing corn.

fjogg², fjugg [fjȯg, fjog], sb., 1) a lump; disorderly bundle; tangle; hit [‘it’]’s a’ [‘all’] in a f. [fjȯg], e.g. of