Studie, sb. anvil. Dunbar, 141, 52. The word rhymes with smidy. See styddy.
Styddy, studdie, stuthy, sb. anvil. Douglas, III, 926, 9; III, 180, 26; Dunbar 141, 52. See also Burns, 502. O. N. steði, a stithy, an anvil. Norse sted. Sw. städ. Exhibits change of ð to d which is a Sco. characteristic, but does not often take place in Norse words. See, too, Cu. stiddy, steady.
Sumph, sb. a blunt fellow. Burns, 98, 1. Norse sump, a bungler, a simpleton, sumpa, vb. to entangle, put into disorder, sump, a disordered mass. Cu. sumph. M. L. G. sump, and Dan. sump do not seem to be quite the same.
Swarf, vb. originally to turn, then to overturn, fall over, fall. Burns, 211, 87, 4. O. N. svarfa, to turn aside, to be turned upside down, Sw. swarfve, Norse svarva, turn, swing about, Dan. svarve or svarre. Eng. swerve does not quite correspond. O. E. sweorfan meant "to file, polish," O. S. swerban, to wipe off, polish, O. F. swerva, to creep.
Swage, swey, vb. sway, waver, also turn, make turn. Sat. P., 5, 8; Douglas, II, 104, 12. O. N. svæigja, to bend, to sway, Dan. sveie, Sw. dial. sväiga, Norse sveigja.
Syte, sb. grief, suffering. Lyndsay, 273, 333. Montg., M.P., V, 14. O. N. sýta, to wail, sýting, sb., sút, grief, affliction, Norse sut, care, syta, to care. Skeat cites sut (in list) which would exactly correspond to the O. N. sb. Brate accepts an O. N. sb. syt.
Tait, adj. foul. Montg., F., 755. O. N. tað. The change of ð to t is unusual. See Wall.
Tangle, sb. seaweed, stalk of a seaweed. Dalr., I, 62, 1; Burns, 91, 2, 2. O. N. þöngul, tangle, seaweed. Cp. þönglabakki, Tangle-hill, name of a place in Iceland. In Norse tangel same as Eng. tangle, entangle.
Tangling, pr. p., adj. clinging, intertwining. Burns, 60, 3, tangling roots, clinging together in tangles. See tangle.