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

by George T. Flom

Cled, pp. clad, clothed. Wallace, I, 382. O. N. klæddr, dressed, from klæða. O. E. clæðan, from which N. Eng. clothe, was borrowed from the Scand. in late O. E. See Kluge P. G.² I., 932

Clag, sb. a stain, a flaw. Dalr., VIII, 97, 17. The vowel in O. N. kleggi does not correspond. It is rather Dan. klag, see claggit.

Claggit, adj. clagged, literally adhering, sticking, vb. clag, to stick. Lindsay, LXXXVII, 2667. Dan. klæg, mud, sticky clay, as adj. sticky, cp. Cu. claggy, adhesive, clog, to stick to, O. E. clæg, from which N. Eng. clay. Possibly from an unpalatalized O. Nhb. clæg.

Cleading, sb. dress, clothing, A.P.B. 110 cp. Norse klædning, Sco. formation, same as clothing in Eng. The Sco. vb. is cleed.

Cleckin, sb. brood of chickens. Burns, 99, 4. Cp. O. N. klekking, chicken, but probably Sco. formation from cleck, to hatch, q.v.

Cleg, sb. the gadfly, horsefly. Burns, 88, I. O. N. kleggi, horsefly, Dan. kleg. See Wall.

Clek, vb. to hatch. Dunbar, 105; Douglas, II, 198, 3. O. N. klekja, O. Sw. kläkkia, Norse klökkja, klöttja, Dan. klække, Sw. kläcka, id.

Cloff, sb. fork, fissure. Montg. F., 60. O. N. klof, bifurcation, O. Dan. klov, a rift in a tree, O. Sw. klovi, id. Norse klov, a cleft opening. Cp. Sco. long-cloved and Ic. klof-langr.

Clour, vb. to beat, strike; always used with reference to personal encounters. O. N. klóra, to scratch, Norse klōra id., klōr sb. used with reference to the scratch one gets as the result of a blow. In Sco. clour may also mean the blow itself.

Clour, clowre, sb. a scratch or swelling after a blow. Fergusson, 120; Philotus, 153; Douglas, I, 6, 4. O. N. klór, a scratching. Norse klōr. Probably Sco. formation.