[4] mula ‘crumbs’: M. nom. sg. muli; OIcel. moli, Shetland muli ‘bits, crumbs’ (see AEW: moli). The use of [u] for normal OWN [o] has been interpreted as an Orcadian feature (Marwick 1929, xli).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Marwick, Hugh. 1929. The Orkney Norn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.