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5. Fr.). — In the sense off-shore tide; current setting towards the sea, Shetl. afset is, however, certainly a modern word (offset — cf. Eng. set, sb., set of tide).

†afsettin [af·sæt·ın], pres. part. and adj., repulsive, — afbiddin. N.Roe.

afskerri [af··skær·i], sb., remote, out of the way skerry (rock in the sea), skerri, far from land. Y^h. *af-sker; cf. “af” in O.N. “afdalr”, remote, solitary valley, and Da. “afkrog”.

afskod [afskȯd], sb., rebound of a wave; backwash of breakers, Nm^w. afaskod [af··askȯd·]: N.Roe. *af-skot, shoving off; shoving away; O.N. skot, n., shooting; shot. Cf. otterskod and øverskod, sb.

afsuk [afsuk], sb., off-shore tide; outward setting tide at the beginning of ebb; — afrog 2 and afron. De. *af-súgr. Fær. súgur (súgvur), m., and súg (súgv), f., “rennisúg(ur)”: back-sweep; sweep of the sea on the shore to and fro; Icel. súgur, m., wash ashore of the sea (B.H.). O.N. sog, n., the backwash of the breakers. The Shetl. form -suk has arisen through influence of L.Sc. “sook, souk”, vb., to suck.

aftak [aftak], sb., improvement in the weather; calming; the cessation of storm (rain or wind), a a. o’ wadder. *af-tak, “abating”. See tak (t. aff), vb., and optak, sb. In the sense mockery, taunt, aftak is L.Sc. “afftak”, sb.

aftakin [af··tak·ın], pres. part., used adjectivally in the phrase: “de a. geng”, (in knitting of stockings), the last ring or gang of loops at the lower end of a stocking leg, before making the heel. See tak’, tak’ aff, vb.

aftek [af·tɛk·], vb., to unthatch; to take the thatch-roof off a house. *af-þekja (O.N. þekja, vb., to thatch); Icel. afþekja, vb., to unthatch.

afwinnin [af·wın(n)·ın], sb., finishing of the field-work in spring (preparing of the soil in spring, O.N. várvinna, Shetl. vor); esp. festivity, festival at the conclusion of the field-work in spring; also partly (festival at) the end of the harvest-work (hay- and corn-harvest), “afwinnin-day”, day on which an afwinnin-feast is celebrated. *afvinning (and *afvinningardagr). See winn, vb. (to winn de vor, winn aff).

ag, agg [ag], sb., prop. drift, movement (forward), used in foll. senses: 1) wave-motion; ripple of waves; the wash of waves upon the shore (with steady wind from the sea), de ag (o’ de sea) upo de shore; a norderli or sodderli ag; very slight break of waves with wind from north or south; a ag fae (frae) de sooth-east; he is a ag doon here, there is a slight swell upon the shore here caused by the shoreward-blowing wind; N.Sh.; 2) foam near the shore; objects floating on or under the surface of the water which are driven by the beat of waves shorewards into bays and clefts, esp. small creatures (molluscs, small crustacea) which serve as food for fish; also called: grav; 3) fig.: stir; impulsion; der’r [‘there is’] nae [‘no’] ag upo de fish, the fish will not bite (Fe.). *ag- (drift, movement, etc.). No. ag, n., swell, slight heaving movements of the waves; Sw. dial. agg, n., water streaming back; wave dashed against the beach.

ag, agg [ag], vb., 1) vb. a., a) of the dash of waves caused by an on-shore wind: to drive something against the shore, de sodderli wind ag(g)ed de fish in to de shore (Fe.); of steady wind from the sea: to drive the waves (ripples) towards the shore; a light wind, ag(g)in doon or (in) upo de shore