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=== Etymology === | === Etymology === | ||
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| + | === Shetland use === | ||
| + | ;An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928) | ||
| + | :<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Jakobsen</span>, Jakob | ||
| + | {{bookquote|'''bakk''' [ba‘k], {{nornabr|sb.|substantive}}, 1) ''bank; slope,'' de '''b.''' o’ de hill, o’ de knowe ''(the slope).'' 2) ''edge; bank; ledge,'' in the phrase “de '''b.''' o’ de {{nornsp|gref}}” of ''a ledge in a peat-pit,'' now {{nornabr|comm.}}: peat-bank; see under {{nornsp|bakkagrof}}, {{nornsp|bank}}. — As a place-name {{nornabr|comm.}} in the sense of ''shore; steep shore,'' uncompounded in the form {{nornsp|Bakka}} [ba‘ka] (sometimes with the {{nornabr|def. art.|definitive article}}: Bakken) and as the second part of a compound: {{nobr|-{{nornsp|bakka}}}} and (more {{nornabr|comm.}}) {{nobr|-{{nornsp|bakk}}.}} Rarer in sense of ''(inland) bank, (inland) slope.'' See further Shetl. Stedn. pp. 74—75. — {{nornabr|O.N.|Old Northern}} bakki, {{nornabr|m.|masculine}}, ''edge; bank; elevated piece of land limited by a depression on the one side;'' {{nornabr|Da.}} bakke. {{nornabr|No.}} “bakke” also = ''ledge in a peat-pit'' (R.). — See {{nornsp|bank}}, {{nornabr|sb.|substantive}} | ||
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=== Pronunciation === | === Pronunciation === | ||
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