Picture: Sigurd Towrie. It is perennially swept by high winds, frequently reaching hurricane force. To a city- dweller climatic conditions. To a primitive people, climatic conditions are of still. At all events, the elder generation almost invariably used the idiom. And even today one. Exact discrimination is difficult - indeed impossible, but a rough classification. Both words are. also employed as verbs to betoken an increase in strength; e. It is also interesting as. Old Norse nominative suffix . Picture Sigurd Towrie. Unless, however, this is a word of comparatively late origin. Scots, yard- sook must be the Old Norse. The commonest. is flan, but this is generally used of a gust coming down a chimney. It. is also used as a verb - . Picture Sigurd Towrie. Unnecessary words in any language invariably lapse; the persistence. A glet, a. The word itself is still pronounced snaa by the elder. The regular word for a snowdrift is a fann, and when. Usually the gamfer is some appearance of the clouds. lift, and frequently one hears. When the sky is. for the greater part overcast and bright vivid clouds are prominent,the sky is. The last word. simply means . The close. warm atmosphere usual in thundery weather is called muify. His hair was all hanging with limro. These words are all of Norse origin, but there is a curious. German word sonnen- kringlein which is applied to similar phenomena. Old Norse eitr, poison; eitrkaldr, bitterly cold. bad, from bada, v., to crush or trample. See also however, gaelic, b. A derivative of Old.
Notes on Weather Words in the Orkney Dialect By Hugh Marwick (Originally published in Old Lore Miscellany for Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland 1921).
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