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fjörk, vb., fjörkin, adj., see fjork, vb., fjorkin, adj.

fla¹ [flā], sb., thin, pared-off heather- or grass-turf, — Fær. flag, n. O.N. (moldar) flaga, f., thin covering or layer of earth or mould. L.Sc. “flaw”, sb., acc. to Jam., is the same word as Shetl. “peat-bank”; see bank, sb. The dropped g in the Shetl. word may be due to the infl. of L.Sc. (and Ork.) “flaw”. Acc. to Jam., “flag” is found in L.Sc. with preserved final g in sense of a piece of greensward.

fla² [flā], sb., 1) a wide, level stretch of grass-land. 2) broad ridge of land. flaw: Edm. Acc. to Jam., the word is Ork. (flaw) in the same senses. Cf. No. flag, n., a tract of sea (Sw. dial. flag, flaga), wide bank or level shoal (Aa.), wide expanse of land (R.), in the latter sense = flak, n. Shetl. fla, borrowed from Ork.? Cf. fla¹, sb.

fla [flā], vb., in peat-cutting: to pare off the surface-soil before getting down to the actual peat, to f. de mør [‘moor’], to f. de “bank”. Deriv. of fla¹, sb.

flab [flab], sb., 1) sonɩething loose and flapping; a torn, loosely-hanging garment. 2) unsteady wind with breaks in between, now esp. break or short lull in windy weather, a f. i’ de wadder; in this sense also fjab [fjab], prob. arisen from flab through a form with a softened (palatalized) l: *fᶅab. Du. Icel. flapr, m., unsteady wind; flapaligr, adj., careless. Cf. also Eng. “flap”, which, however, in Shetl. (Du.) is distinguished from flab (f. 1).

flab [flab], vb., to hang flapping loosely, e.g. of a torn garment. Du. *flapa. See flab, sb.

flad, sb., see flag¹, sb.

flada [flāda], sb., ray (fish); a sea-term, tabu-name, used by fishermen. Fo. Really “the flat” or “flat-

fish”; *(hin) flata; doubtless the def. fem. form of O.N. flatr, adj., flat.

fladrek [flād(ə)rək] and more comm. flodrek [flōd(ə)rək, flȯd··ərək·], sb., limpet; tabu-name, a word belonging to fishermen’s tabu-terms. These limpets are commonly used as bait for fish. The form fladrek is nowadays the rarer form (Fe. occas.), flodrek the more frequent. The latter form is noted down in some places in the N.I. [flōd(ə)rək, flȯd··ərək]; Wh. [flȯd··ərək·] and in Du. [flȯd··ərək·]. flodek [flȯdək] (Du. occas.) = flodrek. to fell (*vell) de flodreks, to loosen limpets from their shells by scalding them (tabu-phrase); see fell², vb. — *flaðra. No. fladra, f., small splinter. For the change of meaning, cf. the relation between Fær. fliða [fli̇̄a], f., limpet, and No. flida, f., a thin flake; splinter. See flar, sb., and *flingaso, sb.; of the latter word the first part, “fliða” in Shetl. is handed down in sense of limpet. In same sense flither (flidder) is found in N.Eng. dial. (Yorkshire) and in the Isle of Man.

flag¹ [flag (fᶅag), flāg], sb., 1) shoal of fish, shoal of small fry, a f. o’ silleks (small coalfish); Fe. [flag, fᶅag, flāg]; U. [flâg]. 2) a flock of birds, esp. in flight, a f. [flâg] o’ birds; U. — In Papa a form flad [flād] is found in sense of abundance or a good haul of fish; we got a f. o’ haddocks. — No. flak, n., and flake, m., inter alia: a shoal of fish swimming on the surface of the water (flak 5, flake 3. Aa.). Cf. “steed”, sb.

flag² [flāg, fᶅāg], sb., 1) untidy, loose, flapping dress or state of dress; to be in a f. [flāg], to be loosely, untidily dressed; de oo’ [‘wool’] is in a f. [flāg], the wool (the sheep’s wool) is hanging loose, flapping; N.I.; Ai. 2) much outward show of kindness; ingratiating