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gell, sb., a crack in wood. The form “gēl (gē^əl)” and meaning 1 show that the word springs from O.N. geil; the forms with a short vowel may be due to L.Sc. infl.; the use of the word in meaning 2 is certainly due to L.Sc. infl.

gel [gēl (gē^əl), gel, gɛl (gæl)], vb., to form clefts or fissures, only noted in the perf. part. form geld, used passively: containing clefts or fissures; de eart’ is geld, there are clefts or fissures in the ground, de planks is a’ [‘are all’] geld, the planks are full of cracks. From gel, sb.

*“gelaegit”, adj., coloured, appl. to animals. Acc. to Edm. It has not been possible to verify this obs. word, “ae” prob. here denotes a close e as commonly in a long syllable in Edm., but occas. also to be found in a short one, e.g. “baessy-flaas”; see bis(s)ifla, sb. — The word might poss. be an ancient *g(a)litkaðr, coloured (O.N. litkaðr, adj., coloured, ruddy-cheeked, from litka, vb., to dye; sprinkle; stain). Several words with a preserved prefix g (ga) are found in Shetl. Norn; see gjoger¹, gloger, gold, sbs., goldet, adj., as well as “angaluck” (under andelokk, sb.) and ongastø, sb.

geld (gjeld) [ꬶē^əld, ꬶeld], sb., see deld, sb.

geld [gɛld, gæld, ꬶɛld], vb., to castrate, geld. O.N. gelda, vb., to geld.

†gelder, sb., see gilder.

geldin [(gɛldin, gældin) ꬶɛldin], sb., a wether. U. [ꬶɛldin]. O.N. geldingr, m., a eunuch; a wether; a bullock.

*geltlin, sb., see getlin.

geng [gɛŋ, gæŋ, gⁱɛŋ, ꬶɛŋ, ꬶæŋ], sb., 1) a going; gait, esp. in the exprs. “here [‘barley’]-g.”, “ait [‘oat’]-g.”, applied to the going of the mill: a) in grinding barley: more slowly (bere-g.); b) in grinding oats: more

quickly (ait-g.); to set de mill till a bere-g. or ait-g.; cf. (bere-, ait-) lag¹, sb. 2) a thoroughfare, in the compd. “t’roughgeng”, thoroughfare; Du. [trɔw··gæŋ·]. 3) times; circuit; row; esp. a row of loops or stitches round or across something knitted or plaited (stockings; shawls; mats; baskets, etc.); a g. o’ loops; to mak’ a g. upon a sock, hap (shawl), flakki (mat), kessi (basket). 4) one of the bands (comm. made of rush or bentgrass), crossing round a kessi, plaited between the straw-bands, = band. 5) a single row, dug by spade, across a cultivated patch of land; to set de g. (Ai.), to plant potatoes right across a cultivated patch of land, = to bet de roddek (Nm.). 6) a floor, = gang 1 b; Flad., Conn. — O.N. gangr, m., a going, walking, gang, n., a road, L.Sc. gang, sb., a passage; alley, etc. The developed vowel-sound “ɛ, æ”, in the Shetl. word, is prob. due to L.Sc. infl.; see under the verb geng.

geng [gɛŋ, gæŋ (gⁱɛŋ, ꬶɛŋ, ꬶæŋ)], vb., to go, O.N. ganga, L.Sc. gang, geng, vb., denotes both “to go” and “to walk”. The foll. meanings, orig. from Norn, may be noted: a) to swell; overflow, of water in a stream; de burn is gaun [‘going’]; b) to break heavily; to be in uproar, of the sea, esp. of surf on a sunken rock: de ba is gaun; see ba¹, sb.; c) of a current of air, sound-waves: to go; stream; roll; de grittin is gaun, the thunder is rolling; of the entrails, guts: to rumble; de dog’s guts is [‘are’] gaun. O.N. ganga, vb., inter alia, to flow; stream; also of sound-waves (lúðrar ganga, the trumpets are sounding); ganga 14 in Fr.; ganga yfir, to overflow; ganga upp, to increase, of wind and water (water in a river); cf. in the foll. Shetl. geng op and “geng ower”. Note also the use of geng in certain modes