Good Shetland Words

[RossGCX]

aaber - eager

aamos - a gift promised in the hope that a wish will be granted to the donor

aet - state of agitation

airt - direction

antrin - occasional

ax - ask

baal - throw

bellin - festering

Beltane - the first of May

bide - stay

bigg - build

birze - squeeze

bittersie - cold, stormy weather

blaand - sour whey

blibe - small blister

blyde - glad

böd - fishing store

braa - considerable

braaly - considerably

briggistanes - footpath of flat stones in front of house

browst - a brewing (as of tea)

brönnie - a round, thick oatmeal scone

bruck - refuse

burstin - meal made from corn dried in a kettle over the fire.

caavin - eating hungrily

clinkin - splendid

clods - small, hard peats

clokkin - broody

cloot - cloth

coarn - small quantity

corbie - raven

cosh - friendly

crö - sheep-fold

crub - small circular dry-stone enclosure for growing cabbage plants

cug - small, wooden vessel

cummelled - capsized

daalamist - mist which gathers in a valley at night

dad - thud

dadderi - drudgery

daffick - wooden bucket

dat in traath - expression conveying the meaning "yes, truly"

dellin - (n.) a portion of a field allocated for a crop, (v.) delving

demmel - to fill by dipping into water

demsels - themselves

depooperit - impoverished

dess - stack of hay

ding - knock

disjaskit - exhausted

drookled - soaked

dunter - eider duck

dwaam - bemused state

eela - rod-fishing, mainly for piltocks, from small boats

eenoo - just now

eft - belonging to the stern part of a boat

faells - turves

fantation - starvation

filsket - high-spirited

flaachter - flutter

fleckit - white, with large black or brown spots

flittin - moving tethered animal to fresh grazing

flyte - scold

foo - how

forro - farrow

forsmo - snub

foy - celebration to mark special occasion

frush - mass

furt - outside

fyaarm - fawn

gaan - gape

gaat - castrated male pig

gaet - path

galder - immoderate laughter

gansey - jersey

gavel - gable

glisk - glint

glower - stare

gluff - frighten

göd - went

green paek - first growth of grass in Spring

grice - pig

grind - gate

gulder - angry outburst

gurr - mucous in corner of eyes

gyaan - going

[GIDDLEPIN]

Is it best to fart furt or bigg a braa and clinkin? or birze a coarn to save an gulder?

[Boro Sera]

Is it best to !Removed! furt or bigg a braa and clinkin? or birze a coarn to save an gulder?

It's probably best not to ask actually :!Removed!:

I notice there's no word for 'Nice Weather' ...........what are the chances eh?? :P

[Bizarra]

Sort of a mixture of old English, Scottish dialect, Danish & Scots Gaelic ?

[cfc1]

I notice there's no word for 'Nice Weather' ...........what are the chances eh?? :P

Nice weather???.. When you stand still up there you're at a 45 degree angle

[Raistlin]

Shetlands - Nice Weather

I don't get it :D

[Boro Sera]

Shetlands - Nice Weather

I don't get it :D

Neither do they by all accounts !

[Raistlin]

Shetlands - Nice Weather

I don't get it :D

Neither do they by all accounts !

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