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men’s lang. W. Burr., Ai. Etym. uncertain. Fig. application of O.N. úlfr, m., wolf?

⁽*⁾huleferdal, huliferdal [hul·əfərdāl·], adjectival expr. applied to badly-spun worsted: very uneven, alternately thin and lumpy; de worsed [‘worsted’] is a’ [‘all’] h. Nm^w. (Esh.). Prob. a jocular application of an orig.: *hóll-yfir-dal, “hill over dale”, i.e.: hilly. Cf. brogget, adj., prop. hilly, applied to uneven worsted.

huleferhaser [hul··əfər·hā··sər], sb., see *hulefer and haser, sbs.

hulk [hu‘lk], sb., commotion in the sea, esp. of crested sea; a h. i’ de sea. U. The vowel-sound suggests an origin diff. from holk¹, sb. Prob. to be classed with No. hulk, n., unevenness; roughness. See holk^{1 and 3}, sbs.

hulk [hu‘lk], vb., = holk², vb. Du.

*hulm [hulm], sb., a holm, islet, O.N. hólmr, m. Now only found in a single compd., as: hulmsund [hul·sund·], see below, and as the first part of compds. in some place-names, esp. names of lakes with islets, e.g. Hulmawater (St.), name of a lake: *hólma-(vatn), Hulmasjøn [hul··maᶊøn·] (Hamar Ness, Nm^w.), name of a lake: *hólma-tjǫrn, see sjønn, sb. (a small lake, etc.); further, e.g. Hulmkoddi [hul·kȯd·i], a point of land on the north side of “de Holm o’ West Sandwick” (Yell^w.). Elsewhere the word has been anglicised to holm, pronounced “hɔm (håm)”, more rarely with preserved l: hɔl^əm (as e.g. in Du^s. occas.). As the second part of a compd. ho(l)m is often found abbreviated to -om [ȯm]; thus: Brattholm [bräƫȯm], Fladholm [fladȯm], Nøstholm [nøstȯm] (Russeter, Fe^w.): *bratthólmr, *flathólmr, *nausthólmr; Skorholm [skȯrȯm, skȯrəm] (Whalsay Sound): *skorhólmr; Wedder (Wadder)-holm(Wadder)-

holm [wäd··ərȯm]: *veðrhólmr, “ramsholm”. See Shetl. Stedn. pp. 112—113.

hulmsund [hul·sund·], sb., a small sound between an islet and the opposite mainland; between an island and one or more holms, or among holms and skerries. Conn. As place-names are found: “de Hulmsund [hul·sund·]”, a sound between Yell (Y^m.) and Kay holm; further: Hulmsond [hul·sȯᶇd·], near Fetlar (Fe^s.-e.). — *hólmsund “holm(’s)-sound”; see *hulm and sund¹, sbs.

hum [(hum) hô̆m], sb., gloomy sky, (dense) haze. De. O.N. húm, n., gloom; twilight, No. hum, n., darkness caused by gathering clouds. Cf. hums², humsk(er), sb.

hum [(hum) hô̆m], vb., to grow dusk; he is humin, the twilight is coming on. De. O.N. húma, vb., to grow dusk. A mutated form høm, from *hýma, is more common in Shetl.; see høm, vb.

humi, hum-y [(humi) hô̆mi], adj., applied to the air: somewhat dark, murky, misty, hazy; he is a kind o’ h.-lookin’, the air is hazy, it looks as if it would be misty weather. De. Deriv. of hum, sb.; cf. No. humen, adj., obscure; dark.

humin [(humɩn) hô̆mɩn], sb., evening twilight (the early part of evening twilight). De., Du. From hum, sb. See further the mutated and more common form, hømin.

huml, hummel [homəl] and homl, hommel [hȯməl], vb., 1) to chip or to remove corners and edges off something, esp. wood; de corners is [‘are’] hummeld aff o’ [‘off’] de wood (wreck-wood), the sharp edges are worn off the wreck-wood (Du.). Most comm. used in sense: 2) to thresh the bearded ears of barley (the second threshing), to h. bere. In the sense first given the