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[7] furask ‘is … furrowed’: Hap. leg. The quantity of the first vowel is ensured by the metre. Konráð Gíslason (1895-7) derives this weak verb (*forask) from the f. noun for ‘furrow’ (see AEW: for 1. for cognates). See also SnE 1848-87, III, 112.