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

by George T. Flom

Wick, to cause to turn. O. N. vikja. Not Danish.

b. The following words are W. Scand. in form:

Bolax, hatchet. O. N. bolöx. The O. Dan. word has the vowel u, bulöx.

Bown, O. N. búinn, cp. grouf < grúfu; bowk < búkr; stroup < strjúpr; dowless < duglauss, etc. The O. Dan. word was boin. The form in Orm. is būn, a Norse loanword.

Busk, to prepare, has W. Scand. reflexive ending sk.

Buth, O. N. búð. The O. Dan., O. Sw. vowel was o, boð and bodh, so in modern Dan. diall. In Norse diall. it is u.

Cappit shows W. Scand. assimilation of mp < pp.

Clubbit shows W. Scand. assimilation of mb < bb.

Drucken exhibits W. Scand. assimilation of nk > kk. Cp. O. Dan. dronkne, drone, but N.Dan. drukken.

Harn corresponds better to O. N. hjarni than to umlauted Dan. hjerne, O. Sw. hiärne.