The Dialect and Place Names of Shetland

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: big boulder. There is a place in Bressay called de Ord, and one in Dunrossness called de Ords. Hurdi- felt in Northmavine is a steep rocky hill, full of down- fallen boulders. I now turn to the various forms of projection along the shore. The name Hevda or Hevdi (O.N. hofSi, derived from hofuff, head) is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: big boulder. There is a place in Bressay called de Ord, and one in Dunrossness called de Ords. Hurdi- felt in Northmavine is a steep rocky hill, full of down- fallen boulders. I now turn to the various forms of projection along the shore. The name Hevda or Hevdi (O.N. hofSi, derived from hofuff, head) is applied to a head-shaped headland. There is f.i. Eswick Hevda (South Nesting), Easter and Wester Hevda (Fo). Hevda-grun is a fishing- ground ( grun: from O.N. grunn-r) between Foula and the mainland, so called from its proximity to the headland Easter Hevdi. Hevdigarth (Midyell) is the name of a house, situated at the foot of the headland called de Head o' Hevdigarth. De Hfs (Sandness is the name of a headland? h0s being O.N. hauss, skull, head. De Snjs is the name of a headland in Foula? sn0s being the word nose in its pure old form. I may in this connection mention de snushiks a name given to a small wooden frame, put on a calfs nose to prevent it from sucking the mother. Niv denotes, like Far. njv, a long jutting-out headland, f.L de Niv at Haroldswick, U; in Icelandic nof and ndp signify nose. Noss (applied to a peak- or nose-shaped headland) is probably the word nose. Instances: the isle of Noss; Noss in Dunrossness (headland, township.) The names Noop and Neep are both applied to a peak-shaped headland. They are derived from O.N. (g)ntip-r and (g)nipa, peak. Instances: de Noop o' Noss, de Neep (North Nesting). The name Bard is applied to a headland whose top projects beyond its base, f.i. de Bard o' Bressay. In O.N. the word bard is applied to the stem of a ship, properly the continuation of the keel fore and aft. Mool is O.N. mtiti, projecting upper lip, muzzle, (big, downhanging) m...