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gash in gash-mouthed, wide-mouthed, voluble. Not in Jam.
- Gang, 32, Go. gaggian. The G. pret. iddja shows the conn. with verb of going in Sans., Gr., Lat. Its Sc. form is gaed, M. E. yode, with prefix ge-, as ga-iddja
- Gannet, 125, solan goose, O. E. ganot, Du. gent, Eng. gan-d-er. In A. S. the sea is the "ganotes bath"
- Gansell, 136, 140, gansellin, Bu.
- Gar- or gor-, 149, intensive prefix
- Garda, 25, 51, Go. yard or fold, gard-s, a house, or. sense, an enclosure; garth, Ger. gurt, gürten, A. S. gyrdan, gird, Go. gairdan, O. N. garth,—all, primarily, hedge round the homestead
- Garda waldands, 25, Go. head of the house, lit. yard-wielding
- Gardener's gairtens, 121, garters
- Garr, 70, 185, has almost superseded "make" in Sc. In Sc. gar, to force. For N. sense of "do," Sc. uses gar as "make or cause to do," widely Teutonic, O. N. ger(v)a, O. E. gearwian, Eng. yare and gear, Ger. garben, gerben, to tan
- Garrie-bee, 149, Mo. In archaic Eng. as garabee or hornet: gara-as in gerfalcon, gor-cock
- Garron, 71, 201, Gael.
- Gart, garth, gorth, gortchin, 25, 65, Go. garda, yard, N. garth-r, Da. gaard; common forms in place names. See garda
- Garuns, 25, Go. market place, where people run together
- Gatwo, 26, Go. a street, as in Sc. gate, road. N. gaita, Ger. gasse, from get, not "go"
- Gaw, 67, 139, rack, flaw, or. uncert., gell, a crack, Shet., galli, a defect (Ic.)
- Gawi, 19, 22, 23, Go. a country district, cog. E. yeoman
- Gawm, goam, gome, 33, 181, to stare (Cu.), stare vacantly; also goave, to recognise, "he never goamt me." O. N. gaum-r, Go. *gauma, heed; gaumjan, to observe
- Gawpus, 85, 136, 170, simpleton, prob. from gawp, gape, to yawn or gape
- Gayly, 168, Cu. Sc. geyly
- Ge-, 17, prefix, M. E. ye-, y-, i-, Go. ga-
- Ge', 196, C. Du. for gave, Sc. gied
- Geans, 127
- Geat, 182, Cu. See get, Ab.
- Geavin', 170, Cu. See goave, goavy
- Gêbun, 11, Go., gayvoon, they gave
- Geddis, 62, pike, spec. Sc. N. gedde, gadd-r, a spike, Go. gazd-s. See gad
- Geel, 212, C. Du. yellow. See gool
- Gefallen, 84, Ger. Chaucer, i-fallen
- Geld, geld-ing, 23, 148, castrate, N. geld-a, Ger. gelze. Cf. galti, a pig (Shet.). See giltha.—Not in Jam.
- Gellies (g hard), 120, 140, tadpoles, leeches—var. of jelly. Bu. geal-caul, ice-cold (g soft)
- Ger-bick, 131, Orc. the gerss- (grass) bank or bauk. See bauk
- German partitive, 94
- Get, 88, 169, as auxiliary, "Can I get going?"
- Gett (pron. geet), 33, 66, Ab. child. Not. in N. E. D. Gyte, var. of gait, from get, be-get a child, a first-year pupil in Edin. High School. Jam. get, gett, geat, geit:—"A theiffis geit."—"Elgin Records," 1627
"Whingin' getts about your ingle side."
"Gen. Shep."
- Gevel, 25, 150, 207, gable, Go. gibla, Da. gavl, Ger. giebel, lit. "the outermost"
- Gey, 168, u. intensive
- Geyser, 33, Ic. lit. "the gusher"
- Giban, 12, Go. to give, Sc. gee (g hard)
- Giglot, 137, 210, 140, var. of giggle
- Gilpy, 85, 137, a romp
"The gilpy stood and leuched (lauched) fell blate."—"Christ. Ba'in'."
- Giltha, 23, Go. sickle. Ic. gelda, Sc. geld, to castrate; Eng. geld-ing. See geld
- Gimmer, 254, Sc. a two-year-old ewe, N. gimbur
- Gingers, 187, Cu.
- Gird, girr', 127, a hoop for play or for a barrel—var. of girth: N. gjorth, Go. gairda, a girdle
- Girn, 33, 56, 62, 67, weep, girn, spec. Sc. sense, to be peevish—var. of grin. Girn, a wire snare for rabbits
