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

by George T. Flom

Cunnandness, sb. skill, knowledge, wisdom. Wyntoun, V, 12, 280; VII, 8, 667. Sb. formation from cunnand.

Daggit, adj. pp. soaked. Montg. S., 68, 11. O. N. döggva, to bedew, döggottr, covered with dew, Norse dogga, id., Sw. dagg, thin, drizzling rain, O. Sw. dag, dew, Shetland dag, dew, "he's dagen," it is misting. Cp. Cu. daggy, misty.

Dapill, adj. gray. Douglas, II, 257, 19; Scott 72, 126, "till hair and berd grow dapill." O. N. depill. See Skeat.

Dapplet, adj. spotted, flecked. Burns, VII, 11. See dapple in Skeat Et.D.

Dash, vb. to strike. Burns, 210, 872, 8, 7. O. N. daska, to strike, sb. dask, a strike, Norse daska, Dan., Sw. daska, M. E. daschen. See Bradley's Stratmann.

De, dee, vb. to die, M. E. deyen. Undoubtedly a Scand. loan-word. Luik (91-93), agreeing with Napier, thinks the word is native from primitive Gmc. *daujan. I think, however, with Kluge, that if the word had existed in O. E. it would have appeared earlier. See Kluge P. G.² I, 933. O. N. döyja, Norse döi, O. Dan. döia, Dan, dö. On M. E. deyen see Brate.

Degraithit, pp. deprived of. Lyndsay, 523, 3935. Formed from the sb. graith, possessions, hence degraith, to dispossess. Cp. the Eng. parallel. See graith.

Dey, dee, sb. maid, woman. A.P.B., 151; Ramsay 399. O. N. dæigja, a dairy maid, Norse deigja, servant, budeie, dairy maid, O. Sw. deghia, deijha, maid, girl, sweetheart, O. Dan. deije, mistress, deijepige, servant. The Sco. word has nearly always the general sense of "woman."

Ding, vb. to drive, strike, beat, overcome. O. N. dengja, to hammer, Norse dengja, denge, to whip, beat, O. Sw. dängia id., Sw. dänge, O. Dan. dænge, M. E. dingen. A very common word in Sco., used quite generally as Eng. "beat," in the sense of "surpassing." "To ding a'" = to beat everything. Cp. "to cow a'."