Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch Part 14

Germ. _retten_ is another word.

RED UP, _vb._ open up. Isaiah, XL, 3; LXII, 10. O.N. _hryja upp, _ Norse _rydde op_, clear up. In Ramsay, II, 225, _red up_ pp. means dressed. See also Wall under _red_.

REDDING, _sb._ growing afraid. Lyndsay, 356, 1263. See _rad_, _red_.

REESE, _vb._ to extol. Ramsay, I, 262. Eng. _raise_. See also _raise_ above, as used in Burns.

RESt.i.t (very frequently reest.i.t), _adj._ dry, withered. Burns, 6, 5.

Dan. _riste_, to dry something over a _rist_, _ristet_, dried.

O.N. _rist_, a gridiron. Cp. Cu. _reest.i.t_, rancid, rusty.

RIVE, RYFE, RIF (riv), _vb._ to tear, break open, cleave.

Lyndsay, 434, 156; Wynyet, II, 6514; Psalms, XXIX, 5. O.N.

_rifa_, to tear, Norse _riva_, _reiva_, Dan. _rive_, Sw.

_rifwa_, M.E. _raven_ id. Cp. Dunbar, T.M.W., 350, "rif into sondir," tear to pieces, and Norse "rive sonde." Cu. _reavv_, and _ryve_.

ROCK, _sb._ a loom, spinning wheel, spinning distaff. Lyndsay, 109, 3330; Burns, 223, 112, 3; 240, 148, 1. O.N. _rokkr_, a loom, Norse _rokk_, Dan. _rok_, spinning wheel.

ROCKING, _sb._ "a chat, a friendly visit at which they would spin on the rock which the visitor carried along with her" (Wagner).

Burns, 4, 28. See _rock_.

ROVE, RUFE, _sb._ rest, repose. Montg., M.P., VI, 20; Scott, 62, 19.

O.N. _ro_, Norse, Dan. _ro_, quiet, rest, Orm. _ro_ (see Brate). Final epenthetic _v_ also occurs in other words in Sco. Cp. _qhwov_ for _qwho, cruive_, besides _crue_, etc.

ROWSTE, _vb._ "to cry with a rough voice." Douglas, III, 304, 11.

O.N. _raust_, the voice. Dan. _rost_, Sw. _rost_, Norse _ryest_. Cp. O.N. _rausa_, to talk loud or fast. Shetland _ruz_ (Cl. and V.). The Sco. vb. seems to be formed from a sb.

_rowste_, which occurs in Orm.

ROWT, ROUT, _vb._ to cry out, roar. Lyndsay, 538, 4353; Montg., F., 501; Rolland, IV, 406. O.N. _rauta_, O. Ic. _routa_, to roar, to bellow, Norse _rauta_, _raeuta_, Sw. dial. _rota_, id.

The Sw. word exhibits the E. Scand. monophthongation, which took place in Dan. about 900.

ROWT, _sb._ loud clamor. Poet. R., 157; Ramsay, I, 251. See vb.

_rowt_.

RUCKLE, RICLE, _sb._ a little heap of anything. Lyndsay, 539, 4356; Burns, 596; M.W., 114, 3. See Wall under _rook_. _Ruckle_ is the form of the word in Edinburgh dial. May be Eng. Skeat considers Eng. _ruck_ Scand. and _rick_ Eng., but in Scotland the one may be simply a variant of the other, not necessarily a doublet. Cp. _fill_ and _full_.

RUIK, a heap. Lyndsay, 454, 2079; 494, 3075. Spelled _ruck_, meaning "a c.o.c.k of hay," in Ramsay's "The Gentle Shepherd," 160. See Wall, under _rook_. Cp. Cu. _ruck_, the chief part, the majority.

ROOP AND STOOP. Ramsay, II, 527; M.W. 203, 8; 214, 5. Cp. _rubb og stubb_, every particle. Aasen defines "lost og fast, smaat og stort, selja rubb og stubb," sell everything, dispose of all one has; literally "stump and piece," "rump and stump." Used exactly the same way in Sco. Of very frequent occurrence in this sense in Norway.

RUND, ROOND, ROON, _sb._ the border of a web, the edge. Burns, 596.

O.N. _rond_, rim, border, Dan. _rand_, a line, seam, the border, Norse _rand_, _rond_, a streak, seam, edge, border.

Cp. Cu. _randit_, streaked, Norse _randet_, id.

RUNSIK, _vb._ to ransack. Wallace, VII, 120. O.N. _rannsaka_, to search a house, Norse _ransaka_, from _ran_, house, and _saka_, _soka_, seek. See Skeat, and Kluge and Lutz.

RUSARE, _sb_, a flatterer. R.R., 3356. See _ruse_.

RUSE, ROOSE, RUSS (rus), _vb._ to praise, to boast, pride oneself. Douglas, II, 57, 8; Rolland, I, 389; R.R., 2823. O.N.

_rosa_, older _hrosa_, to praise, Norse _rosa_, Dan. _rose_, Sw. _rosa_, M.E. (_h_)_rosen_, Lincolns.h.i.+re _rose_, _reouse_, Cu. _roose_.

RUSE, _sb._ praise, a boast. Dunbar, T. M.W., 431; Sat. P., 12, 17.

O.N. _hros_, praise, Norse, Dan. _ros_.

SAIKLESS, _adj._ innocent. Lyndsay, 545, 4563. O.N. _saklauss_, O.E.

_sacleas_. The O.E. word is a loan-word from O. Nh. See Steenstrup, 210-211. In modern Eng. dial. the form is generally _sackless_.

SAIKLESSNESS, _sb._ innocence, innocency. Psalms, XXVI, 6, 11; LXXIII, 13. See _saikless_.

SAIT, _sb._ session, court. Dunbar, 79, 41. O.N. _s?ti_, seat, sitting, Norse _saete_, id. See Skeat under _seat_.

SAUCHT, _adj._ reconciled, also at ease, undisturbed, tranquil.

Bruce, N, 300; Douglas, II, 91, 22. O.E. _saht_, borrowed from O.N. See Kluge, P.G.(2)I, 934. For discussion of O.E.

_seht_ and _sehtian_ see Steenstrup, 181-182. In Howlate, III, 16, _sacht_ vb. pret., made peace.

SAY, _sb._ a milk-pail, also tub. Jamieson, Dumfries. O.N. _sar_, a large cask, Norse _saa_, a pail, a water-bucket, a wooden tub, Dan. _saa_, _vandsaa_, waterpail, Sw. _s_, id.

SCAIT, _sb._ the skate fish. Dunbar, 261, 9. O.N. _skata_, Norse _skata_, the skate, M.E. _scate_. Ir. _scat_, _sgat_, id., is a loan-word from O.N. (Cp. Craigie, p. 163). O.N. _sk_ becomes quite regularly _sg_ in Ir. and Gael. Cp. also _sgeir_ < _skar_.="" cu.="" _skeatt_="" exhibits="" regular="" i-fracture="" from="" older="">

SCAITH, SCATH, _vb._ to injure. Bruce, IV, 363; XII, 392; R. R., 1323. Not from O. Nhb. _scea_, but from O.N. _skaa_, Norse _skade_, with which the vowel corresponds.

SCAR, _sb._ a precipitous bank of earth, a bare place on the side of a steep hill, a cliff. Ramsay, II, 205; Burns, 10, 11. Also written _skard_, _scair_, _scaur_. O.N. _sker_, a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea. Norse _skjaer_, a projecting cliff, a bank of rocky ground, Dan. _skjaer_, _skaer_, a rock in the water near the land, Sw. _skar_, M.E. _sker_, _scerre_. Cp.

Cu. _skerr_, a precipice. The fundamental idea is "something cut apart, standing by itself." Root the same as in the Norse _skera_, to cut, Eng. _shear_ and _sh.o.r.e_, sea-_sh.o.r.e._ Cp.

the O.E. vb. _scorian_ cited by Sweet.

SCARTH, _sb._ the cormorant. Dunbar, T.M.W., 92; F., 194; Douglas, I, 46, 15. O.N. _skarfr_, Norse _skarv_, cormorant. Shetland, _scarf_.

SCHOIR, _sb._ a threat, menace. Bruce, VI, 621; Gol. and Gaw., 103.

B-S. derive from O. Sw. _skorra_, O.N. _skera_.

SCOL, _vb._ to wish one health, an expression used in drinking, just as the Norse _skaal_ is used. Montg. S., 69, 13. O.N. _skal_, Norse _skaal_, a drinking cup. Cp. Sco. _skull_, a goblet.

Ir.-Gael. _scala_, _sgaile_, a beaker, is a Norse loan-word (Craigie).

SCOUG, scog, _vb._ to shelter. M.W., 20, 19; Isaiah, XVIII, 6. O.N.

_skuggi_, shade, Norse _skugge_, to shade, Sw. _skugga_, sb., Dan. _skygge_, to shade. Spelled _scug_ also in Sco.

SCRATCH, _sb._ an hermaphrodite. Jamieson. O.N. _skratti_, a monster. This form exists in Yorks.h.i.+re, otherwise the form in Eng. dial. is _scrat_. See Wall.

SCRIP, a coa.r.s.e or obscene gesture. Wallace, VI, 143. Probably from O.N. _skripi_. Cp. _skripatal_, scurrilous language, _skripalaeti_, buffoonery, scurrilous gestures. With the Sco.

word cp. the Norse _skripa_, vb., _skripa_, sb. f., and Ic.

_skripr_, sb. m. See Aasen.

SCUD, _vb._ to hurry away, hasten on. Burns, 55, 1, 4. Eng. _scud_ Skeat derives from Dan. _skyde_, Sw. _skutta_. The Sw. form is nearest, the Dan. form shows umlaut. The corresponding O.E.

word is _sceotan_.

SCUDLER, a male kitchen servant. Wallace, 5, 10, 27. Cp. O.N.

_skutilsvaeinn_, a page at a royal table. _Skutil_ is the same as O.E. _scutel_, a dish, a trencher. In O.N. it means also "a small table." The unpalatalized _sc_, as well as the usage, would indicate that the word is a loan-word.