Sock, vb. to examine, investigate. Fergusson, 169. Probably from O. N. sækja, to seek, Norse söka, sökja, Dan. söge since O. Nhb. sæca later became sēca and developed as W. S. sécan.
Solande, sb. a soland goose. Dalr., I, 25, 1. O. N. súla + n (Skeat). The d is epenthetic. The n is the post-positive definite article, a peculiarly Scand. characteristic.
Sop, sb. a round, compact body. Bruce, III, 47. O. N. soppr, a ball (Skeat), Norse sopp, id. Cp. Cu. sop, "a milk-maid's cushion for the head."
Soum, sb. The rope or chain a plow is drawn by. Dunbar, III, 126, 21. O. N. saumr, a seam, trace. In Bruce, X, 180, hede-soyme, sb. the trace.
Soym, sb. trace of a cart. Bruce, X, 233. From O. N. saumr, a seam (Skeat), Norse saum, Dan. söm. For oy in place of ou, as we should expect, cp. gowk and goilk, lowp and loip, etc., and the Norse laupa and loipa.
Spae, spa, vb. to prophesy. Douglas, II, 142, 2; II, 2; Burns, 37, 2, 2. O. N. spá, to prophesy, Norse spaa, Dan. spaa, id. Cp. spaamand, spaafolk, and Sco. spaeman, spaefolk, spaewife.
Spay, spe, sb. prophecy, omen, augury. Dalr., II, 5, 8; Isaiah, XLVII, 12. O. N. spá, a prophecy. Vǫluspá, the vala's prophecy, M. E. spa.
Spaequean, sb. fortune teller, spaewife. Isaiah, XLVII. O. N. spákona, a woman who spaes. The compound may, however, be Sco.
Spale, sb. lath, chip, splinter. R.R., 1979; Burns, 132, 114. Norse spela, spila, speil, a splinter, a chip, also spol. O. N. spölr, a rail, bar, lattice work, sometimes means "a short piece of anything." Cu. speal. The O. E. word is speld. Cp. Fr. espalier.
Spenn, vb. to button, to lace. Jamieson. O. N. spenna, to clasp. Norse spenna, lace, spenne sb. a buckle, Dan. spænde, Sw. spänne, to lace. The O. E. word is spannan, without umlaut. The meaning as well as the form of the Sco. word is Scand.