Shetland Words:A
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- a = (v) have (I should a seen yun comin)
- aa = (adj) all (We aa hed some)
- aa = (v) owe (du still aas me yun half a croon)
- aaber = eager, anxious to obtain something
- aabody = everybody
- aafrugg = (n) reflected waves (from cliffs or shore)
- aafil = (adj) awful (dis is aafil wadder)
- aaftak = (v) belittle,criticise
- aairvhous, airv house = (n) a place of meeting appointed by the Foud
- aamus/aamis = (adj) miserable (He's a pör aamus craetir)
- aandoo = (v) To row slowly
- aandoed = (adj) rowed slowly
- aaracy = extreme aversion or dislike, phobia
- aarm = (n) the end, as of a line
- aathing = everything
- aboot = about (Oot an aboot)
- aberzeant = et cetera
- abun = above
- abune = 1. unreasonable, out of character; 2. above
- acht = (n) asset (He wis an acht tae da wark), possession, property
- ackadur = (v) to endeavor
- ack ur duh = make do, do the best you can with what you've got
- ae-beast-tree (n) a swingle-tree by which one horse draws in ploughing
- ae-fald = simple, upright, not cunning
- aer = (n) oar
- aer = (n) a sandbank or beach
- aert = (n) earth
- aert kent = (adj) widely known (he wis aert kent)
- aeshins = the point at which wall and roof meet on the sides of a building
- aessiepattle = (n) a neglected child
- aester = (v) move towards east (Da wind is startin ta aester)
- aestard = (n) easterly, eastward (Da wind wis fae da aestard)
- aet = (v) eat
- aeth-kent = well known
- aetin-oot-idda-loop = worn through on a fold, particularly of paper. (Literally 'eaten out of the loop').
- aets = (n) oats
- aetmell = (n) oatmeal
- aff = off
- affbend = (v) to unload a pony
- afflikit = scared or frightened
- afflude = (v) to deface
- affrug = (n) a spent wave receding from the shore
- affset = (n) an impulse
- afoar = before (No afoar time)
- afoar-da-wind = a person who's forseeable future is more in the control of others and/or any appropriate authorities, than their own, as a result of their own previous actions/inactions or of circumstances which have beset them
- afro = (v) to dissuade
- aftak = 1. a mockery or jeering; 2. to abate or lull, as the weather
- ageen = again
- agg = retch, to gag
- agg = (n) a short breach of the sea
- aggle = (v) to mess up, make dirty. (Da bairns med an aggle i da gutter)
- aggucks, awmucks = (n) a kind of fish found upon sandy beaches that can inflate their bodies
- Agist = August (month)
- ahint = behind (I'm aye ahint wi da wark)
- ahint/ahent da ruddir = late/behind/tardy to the point it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to regain the lost ground and/or achieve your goal
- ahent = behind
- aigil = eagle
- aimir = ember
- air = (n) a small quantity
- air = (v) to taste
- airrants = errands
- aittrie = (n) cold, bleak weather
- aivalous = doubtful, uncertain
- aiving = being in doubt
- ajie = (adj) ajar.
- aklin = (n) a sullen person
- alamootie = (n) Storm Petrel (possibly also, mootiealan, westside name?) (Hydrobates pelagicus)
- aless = unless
- alie = (n) a pet, a favorite
- alie = (v) to cherish, to nurse, to pet
- alison = (n) a shoemaker's awl
- almark = (n) an animal addicted to breaking fences or trespassing on arable land
- alto = although
- amp = fear
- ander = (n) a kind of porch
- andoo = (v) to keep a boat in position by rowing gently against wind or tide
- angaluck = (n) an accident, a misfortune
- angel = (n) an English gold coin, 10s sterling
- anker = a dry measure, an anker of potatoes = one-third of a barrel; a liquid measure equivalent to 38 quarts Danish.
- anker-kettle = a large cooking or boiling pot, usually with a crescent handle attached to lugs either side, for lifting and carrying, which folded down to it's side when not in use. May or may not have had a lid.
- anns = (n) chaff of oats
- anns-bere = (n) chaff of bere
- anse = (v) obey (Never anse da auld besom)
- ant = (v) heed, pay atention to (He never anted her)
- Antinmas = (n) Anthony's mass, twenty-four days after Christmas
- antrin = (adj) odd, occasional (An antrin dram is guid for de)
- anunder = under (I gae him a lunder anunder da lug)
- anyester = (n) a two year old sheep
- apo = (prep) upon
- arff, ayrffe = odal heritage, succession
- arg = eager, fierce
- argerie = (n) a crowd, a multitude
- argosie = (n) anger
- ark = (adj) a big example of something (yun's a ark o' a hoose)
- arles = (n) payment as a token of engagement of services; received by herring gutters when they signed on for the season
- arvie = a plant (Alcine media)
- ask = (n) haze, light mist
- ask = (n) drizzle, half rain and half fog, small particles of snow
- ask = (n) a wooden dish for holding ashes
- asley = bound firm one to another, horses in asley = horses belonging to different persons
- asoond = (n) a fainting fit
- asweel = as well, also
- at-lookin = observant
- athin klibberbrods = any wooden item that has been smashed to smithereens
- aticast = (n) a silly, helpless, odd sort of person
- atset = (n) the commencement of ebbtide
- atteal, atteile = (n) the pochard (Turdus marinus)
- attivilts = (n) arable ground lying one year in lea
- attour = besides; above and beyond
- atween = between
- atween-lichts = (n) the distance between neighbors' houses
- auld = old (Da auld man)
- Auld Man idda Daek = Bearded Lichen
- Auld New'r'sday = January 13th
- Auld Nick = the devil, satan
- aulin-scouty = (n) the arctic gull
- auskerrie = (n) a scoop for baling out a boat
- avaa = at all (I wis left wi naethin avaa)
- awber = excitedly enthusiastic, very keen
- awree = a corridor, passageway or aisle, usually relatively roomy, straight and of some lenght, relatively speaking
- ax = (v) ask (We ax fir whit we want)
- aye = yes, (adj)always
- aye aye = informal greeting, (Aye aye boy, foo is du?)
- ayning = the ownership of an odaller
- ayre = (n) a spit or bar of sand
- aze = (n) a large blazing fire
