Shetland Words:M
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- maa = (n) seagull
- maeshie = (n) net ?????
- maet = food
- mak = (v) make
- makkin = (n) knitting
- mak on = pretend (Mak on du's sleepin.)
- mallie = (n)fulmar petrel
- man = must
- mant = (v) stammer
- mar = (v) mark, harm, bother
- mareel= phosphorescence in the sea
- mayflooer = (n) Primula, May Flower, South end of Cunningsburgh is best growth, April & May
- meid/mead = (n)landmark alignment for fishing spot
- ment = meant
- mert = (n) a beast fatted for slaughter
- meshie = (n) a net used for carrying hay on a man' shoulder or peat with a pony
- midder = (n) mother
- mirk = (adj) dark
- mirken = darken
- mirknin = dusk
- mirl = (v) shimmer, wobble slightly. (Da car hed a mirl i da steerin.)
- Mirry-dancers = (n) Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis
- missanter = problem, cockup
- moorie-cavie = (n) snowstorm, blizzard
- moorit = (adj) brown, sheeps wool colour
- mootie = (adj) small
- möld = (n) earth, soil
- mön = (n) moon
- muckle = (adj) large
- muggie = (n) fishes guts, persons guts??
- munt = (n) month (Da munt o May)
- murken = (v) mouldy
