Hei alla saman!
I have not been so active on the forum lately, as I've been quite busy for the past three months. But I have not stopped working on Orkney norn. So here a new entry! The word I chose to share in my word lab today is "to bury". It was so not easy to retrace the Scandinavian word in the Orcadian dialect of Scots, but I did find something quite interesting in Gregor Lamb's dictionary of Orcadian. The answer lay in the word meuld, meaning earth, or mould, in Scots, but also "the earth of a graveyard" in some regions of Scotland, Orkney included. Also, notice the Scots phrase in muld, meaning "in the grave". In Faroese, undir moldum seems to have the meaning "in the grave". In Norwegian also, the phrase kome under molda means "to be buried". Gregor Lamb, in his dictionary of the Orcadian dialect, gives in-malded, "buried", where "malded" is a past participle used as an adjective with the adverbial particle "in" preffixed. In Faroese and Icelandic, moldaður means buried.
MØLDA (INN) : to bury
Nynorn : Magnus var (inn)møldað i går.
English :
Magnus was buried yesterday.ON, Ice., Faer. :
Magnus var moldaður í gjár. (not so sure about this one)
So, yeah, there you go! Not so mindblowing but I'm on holiday and I didn't bring my notes with me. It was the only word I could think of... What do you think?