Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch / A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian

by George T. Flom

Boun, adj. bent upon, seems to have almost the idea of "compelled to." Gol. and Gaw. 813. O. N. búinn. See Wall under bound, and Cl. and V. under bua B. II.

Boune, vb. to prepare, to prepare to go, to go. Houlate, I, 23; Poet. R. 107, I; Gol. and Gaw. 59, 13, 40. See bown.

Bowdyn, pp. adj. swollen. Dunbar T.M.W. 41, 345; Montg. F. 529. See boldin.

Bowk, sb. trunk of the body, body. Dunbar, 248, 25; Rolland, II, 343. O. N. búkr, the trunk, the body, Norse būk, Dan. bug, O. Sw. buker. Specific Scand. usage. O. E. būc, like O. F. buk and Germ. bauch, meant "belly."

Bow, sb. a fold for cows. Douglas, III, 11, 4. O. N. ból, a place where cows are penned, also den, lair or lying-place of beasts. Norse bol, Shetland bol, bøl, a fold for cattle. In Psalms XVII, 12, bole occurs in the sense of "a lion's den."

Bown, adj. ready, prepared. L.L. 1036. O. N. búinn. Not Eng., but a loanword from O. N., and as Kluge P. G.² I, 939, has pointed out shows also Norse influence in the Midland dial.

Bowne, vb. to swell. Irving, 230. O. N. bolgna to swell, Norse bolna, Dan. bolne. Shows characteristic Sco. change of l to w. In boudin, Irving, 467, an excrescent d has developed before the l became u (w). Wallace, VI, 756, bolnyt, swelled. So in Wyntoun, IX, 17, 5. Boldnit with excrescent d occurs in Douglas, II, 84, 16.

Bra, brae, bray (brē), a slope, declivity. O. N. brá, see Bradley's Stratmann. Cp. Jöstedalsbrä in Western Norway.

Braid (brēd), sb. a sudden movement, an assault (Small). Douglas, III, 251, 2. O. N. bragð, a sudden motion, a quick movement, tricks or sleights in wrestling. O. Sw. braghþ, a sudden motion. Norse, Sw. bragd, manner of execution, exploit. The fundamental idea in the Sco. and the O. Nh. word is sudden movement. The O. E. brægd meant deceit, fraud.

Braith, adj. hasty, violent. Wallace, X, 242. O. N. bráðr, sudden, hasty, O. Dan. braadh, Norse braad. Cp. braahast (E. Norse), great hurry, O. Sw. brader, brodher, hasty, violent, Orm. bra, angry. Brothfall (Orm), a fit, broth (Eng. dial.), in Skeat's list. Braithful, violent, sharp.