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Shetlandic words, help needed


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Another one where a Norse origin can be possible.

 

Makadö can be traced to 'mak tø' (make to), which is a calque of ON "gera til, gøra til" - to prepare, make ready. In Faroese there's a word 'tilgjørdur' ("to-made") and one of its meanings is 'pretended, counterfeit, imitated'.

 

The fact that English is reluctant to use 'to' as a postverb is probably the reason why 'mak tø' lost connection with its parts and changed into a homogeneous word.

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