Shetland Words:H
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- haa = big house, lairds house.
- haaf = offshore fishing grounds / the open sea
- haafures = (n) fishermen's lines
- haagless = boundless
- haandless = not good at manual labour, ( he wis a haandless craetir)
- haandlin = hand held fishing line.
- haandy = convenient, suitable, nearby
- haas = (n) windpipe (Hit goed doon da wrang haas)
- hackit = chapped skin
- hadd = (v) hold (yock ihadd o yun yowe)
- haet = (n) hot
- haet pig = (n) earthenware hot water bottle.
- haf-krak = half-wit, deranged
- haff-fish = (n) great seal (Halichoenis gryphus)
- hagalef = (n) permission to cut peats or graze livestock on outfield in return for a small payment
- haggamuggie = (n) the stomach of a fish stuffed with a hash of meat, liver, etc.
- hail = (v) haul, pull up (fishing line)
- hain = (1) to use sparingly or frugally, (2) to cease raining
- hairst = (n) harvest time
- hak = (n) water broken by waves
- hale = (adj) whole
- hale-haddn = everything, all of, the entirity (of that kind)
- hallegit = (adj) wild, unmanageable, obstreperous
- hallie-palloo = (n) confusion
- hame = (n) home
- hame-aboot (adv) in the family circle
- hanlicks = (n) mittens
- hansel =(n) a gift marking something new, a new baby, a new boat, a new house, etc
- hansel = (v) to give such a gift ( I'll hae tae hansel dee new boat)
- hank = (n) measure/quantity of yarn. (v) to gather rope in coils
- hap = knitted shawl
- harns = (n) brains (der wisna muckle harns atween his lugs)
- harskit = (adj) rough or harsh texture, as cloth
- hassen straik = (n) board above gabbard straik, in yoal (Keel, gabbard straik, hassen straik,..)
- hatter = slowing down and delaying progress, usually by making the task more complicated/difficult.
- haund = (n) hand
- haver = speak rubbish
- hawkhen = (n) a duty of a hen or dog paid to the King's falconer
- head = (n) 4 hanks of yarn, a measure/quantity of yarn
- heagri = (n) Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), Nickname for tall thin person
- heather lintie = (n) twite (Linota flavirostris)
- heckla = (n) the dog-fish
- hedder = (n) heather
- hedder-kowe = (n) clump of heather
- heeds for traws = (adv) objects lying together alternately top to bottom
- heedy craw (n) somersault
- heft = (n) handle
- hegrie, skip hegrie, Hegril's skip = (n) heron (Ardea cinerea)
- heeig = a thin poor quality growth of hair, grain, grass etc
- helie = (n) the period between sunset Saturday and sunrise Monday when Shetlanders were forbidden to participate in secular activities (Tudor 1883)
- hellejay = (n) razor bill (Alca torda)
- helliers = (n) caverns in rocks
- helly = (n) holiday, week-end
- helly-errands = weekly shopping
- hemma = (n) a wife
- hemp-line =(n) fishing handline made of the very best natural fibre, standard line was 1¼lb, heavier was 1½lb, being the weight of 60 fathoms length
- hen afore da wind = dishevelled, sticking out (dis young eens is lik hens afore da wind wi dis moadrin hair styles')
- hent = (v) lift, gather
- hentilagets = (n) tufts of sheeps wool
- henting = (v) gathering wool shed by sheep on the pastures
- heosa = (n) ladle (Low 1774)
- hessin = (n) horse (Low 1774)
- herald, herald duck = (n) red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
- heritor = (n) a landed proprietor
- herrin hog = (n) minke whale, lesser rorqual, (balaenoptra acutorostrata)
- hert = (n) heart
- hert-hol, hert-jaws = At the time of or at the point of greatest intensity/severity. Usually used in relation to that which is unwelcome or unpleasant.
- hert-shot = (n) a loud sneeze or a loud burst of laughter
- hertstane = hearth
- heth = mild exclamation (feth also used in some areas)
- hey bru = (n) an infusion of hay in water given to calves in place of milk
- hicker = hesitate
- hide = skin (soakit ta da hide)
- hidmost = last(himmist in some areas)
- hill sparrow = (n) meadow pippit (Anthus pratensis)
- hinder = (v) stop, prevent
- hing = hang
- hingin-idda-swidders = an incomplete project which is useless in it's current state, and which would be desirable to have completed, but has been abandoned, or appears to have been abandoned
- hingin' widder = (n) a sheep lug mark, an incision being cut from an edge upwards toward the tip of the ear
- hinnawirs, hinnywaar = Honeyware (Alaria esculenta) - an human edible variety of seaweed.
- hinneyspot = (n) triangular bit of wood connecting the stem and the gunwales of a boat
- hion = island (Low 1774)
- hippen = baby's nappy
- hirkie = (n) sea word for a pig
- hirple = (v) to limp or hobble
- hit = it
- Hjaltland = (n) Old Norse name for Shetland
- Hnefatafl = (n) King's Table, a strategic board game mentioned in Norse sagas.
- hoa = (n) a smaller species shark
- hoasker = (n) a large shark with skin like shagreen
- hobby = (n) merlin (Falco oesalon)
- hobrin = (n) the blue shark
- hoch = (n) thigh
- hock = (v) dig
- hockney = (adj) keen for food
- hoe = (n) Dog fish
- hoga = (n) pasture on the hill or outfield
- hogg = (n) a young sheep, one between weaning and first rooing
- hoid = (v) hide
- hoissan = (n) Haddock (Low 1774)
- hoknir = (n) sea-word for a horse
- holm = (n) a small, uninhabited grassy island
- hondi = (n) peasant
- hooch = (v) shout while dancing
- hookers = on haunches
- horie goose, horra goose = (n) Brent goose (Bernicla brenta)
- horrid = (adj) very, extremely
- horse gawk, horse gowk = (n) common snipe (Gallinago coelestis)
- horsegok = (n) snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
- horsegowan = (n) ragwort
- host = cough
- houll or houlland = (n) a habitation on an eminence
- houvie, hovie = (n) a trout trap made of dock stalks, wide at its mouth and narrow at the other end, placed in an opening of a dyke built at the mouth of a burn so that a wader could drive the fish to the trap.
- howdi = (n) midwife
- howe = (v) hoe, to till soil, (I howed da neeps)
- hosapall = (n) skull
- hoydeen = (n) the minister
- hoy-saede = (n) high seat of the mistress of the house
- hömin = (n) evening, dayset
- hufsie = (n) fruit loaf/cake, varied recipies
- hug = (n) a castrated male sheep
- huggiestaff = (n) gaff for lifting large fish on board
- humlieband = (n) rope loop which keeps oar in place when rowing.
- hunkse = (v) hoist
- hunse = (v) hunt
- hurda = (n) sea-word for a mare
- hurl = (n) wheelbarrow (Unst)
- hurl = to roll an object, or manually propel a wheeled item
- hurlborrow = wheelbarrow
- hurley = (n) homemade go-cart
- hurley-shair = child's pushchair or a wheelchair
- hurr = broken in a thousand pieces (hit geed in hurr apo da floor)
- hustikk = (n) "house bitch", sea word for a woman (Foula)
- hwal = (n) whale
- hwarl = (n) scalp lock, that part of the crown from which the hair spreads in a circle out over the sides
- hwirel, hwirl = (n) scalp lock, the center of the crown
- hyaden = (n) animal carcass
- hyook = (n) hook (Could either be a fishing hook, or a "corn hyook" ie a sickle. Something (or person) might be "sharp as a new-grund hyook".
