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wind) fland or cam’ flanin doon [‘down’] de lum (the smoke-hole in the roof). comm. Also flam (fläm): N.I. Icel. and No. flana, vb., to rush on blindly; tumble, gad about; Da. flane: to flirt. For the development of the meaning in Shetl. cf. e.g. brust(er), sb., squall of wind, from *brusa; bus, sb., stormy weather, from *busa; rus, sb., = bus, from *rusa; further poss. flos², sb. (from *flasa, to rush on; flirt?).

flaps [flaps], sb., a gentle blow; flap; to get a f.; flap of the wings (see flaps, vb.). N.Roe. From the root *flap; see flab, sb.

flaps [flaps], vb., to give a gentle blow; to flap; of birds: to flap the wings. N.Roe. *flapsa from *flap-; see flab, sb.

flar [flār], sb., a thin layer of something, a f. o’ snaw [‘snow’], o’ muck, = fler. Wh. *flaðr (or *flaðra). Sw. (N.Sw.) dialects flader, flar (flår), m., bark, a flake of bark; No. fla(d)r, m., a flake, a kind of thin, flat fish (R.), also a thin coating (R. Suppl.). No. fladra (flara), f., a small splinter. In a diff. sense fladrek, sb.; q.v.

flati [flati], sb., a level piece of land, = flatti, flot, platti. O.N. flati, m., flata, f., a plane surface.

flatj (flats?) [flatᶊ], vb., 1) to flatten; press down. 2) to walk heavily and clumsily, to geng flatjin (flatsin) aboot (U.). 3) to strike to the ground. — O.N. fletja, vb., to level; stretch out, L.Sc. flatch, vb., to fold down. “flatᶊ” might be formed regularly from O.N. fletja: cf. for the pronunc. of tj, e.g. britj [brɩtᶊ] and brotj [brȯtᶊ], vb., from O.N. brytja; fitj [fɩtᶊ], sb., = fid from O.N. fit(j); fitj [fɩtᶊ], vb., from O.N. fitja; flitj [flɩtᶊ], vb., from O.N. flytja; vitj [vɩtᶊ], vb., from O.N. vitja. See flatsi¹ or flatji, sb.

flatsi¹ or flatji [flatᶊɩ (flatsi?)], sb., 1) something large (extended) and flat (Yⁿ.). 2) a flat cake, = lefsi.

3) esp. in pl. and compounded with “liver’’: liver-flatsis (flatjis), a couple of young coalfish (Shetl. pilteks) slightly dried, split and laid together with liver between, and grilled (M^e., esp. L., Wh., Skerries), = (liver-) flakis; see flaki², sb. Appears to be formed of flatj (flats), vb., see above. flatsi 3 might be a transformation of an older word, beginning with “flat-” (cf. O.N. flatningr, m., a flat fish) or an abbr. of an orig. *flat-seiðr, “flat coalfish”.

flatsi² [(flatsi) flatᶊɩ], sb., a shakedown, esp. a bed of straw on a threshing-floor, = “flat-bed”. Abbr. of O.N. flatsæng, f., a bed made on the floor.

flatti [flaƫi, fläƫɩ], sb., a level patch of ground, = flati, platti. Fe. See flati, sb. For the doubling of t cf. Fær. “fløttur” from O.N. flǫtr, m., a level stretch, a strip of arable land or grass-land.

flek or flekk [flɛk, flæk], sb., 1) a small stretch of land of a certain quality, diff. from the surrounding land (swampy, sandy, rocky, etc.), now mostly in place-names. 2) a part of the sea-bottom of a certain kind; sandy, muddy or covered with seaweed (U.). In Unst often used in names of fishing-grounds, mostly with def. art., equilibrating^{[errata 1]} between a common noun and a place-name: de mukkel f. (Flekk), de Firselsflekk, de Muflekk (Mua-) (U^e.). See Sh.Stedn. pp. 94 and 205. O.N. flek, n., a piece of ground, a field; No. flekk, n., a small stretch of field (R.).

Flekka [flɛka, flæka], sb., a cow with large spots, as name for such a cow. N.I.; Fo. *Flekka. From O.N. flekkr, m., a fleck, spot.

flekket [flɛkət, flækət], adj., spotted, having large spots, esp. of cows: a f. coo; occas. also of horses: a f. horse; of soil of varied appearance, partly snow-covered ground: f. grund;

1. Correction: equilibrating should be amended to hovering: detail