freista_, _frista_, to tempt, try, O. Sw. _fresta_, Dan.
_friste_, Sw. dial. _freista_, to attempt, O.E. _fr[-a]sian_.
GANAND, _adj._ fitting, proper. Dunbar, 294; Douglas, II, 24, 19.
Pr. p. of _gane_. Cp. Eng. fitting. See _gane_.
GANE, _vb._ to be suitable. L.L., 991; Rolland, II, 135. O.N.
_gegna_, to suit, to satisfy, from _gegn_. O. Sw. _gen_, same
root in Germ. _begegnen_. See further Kluge. Entirely
different from _gane_, to profit.
GANE, _vb._ to profit. L.L., 131; R.R., 1873. O.N. _gagne_, to help,
be of use, _gagn_, use, profit, Norse _gagna_, id., O. Sw.
_gaghna_, to profit, Dan. _gavne_.
GANE, _sb._ the mouth and throat. Douglas, III, 168, 26. Cannot come
from O.E. _gin_, O.N. _gin_, mouth, because of the quality of
the vowel, is, however, Norse _gan_, _gane_, the throat, the
mouth and throat, Sw. _gan_, gap, the inside of the mouth.
GAIT, GATE, GAT, _sb._ road, way, manner. O.N. _gata_, O. Dan.
_gatae_, M.E. _g[-a]te_. See Wall. Cp. Northern Eng. "to gang
i' that rwoad," to continue in that manner.
GARTH, GAIRTH, _sb._ the yard, the house with the enclosure,
dwelling. O.N. _garethr_, a yard, the court and premises, O. Sw.
_garşer_, _gardh_, the homeplace, Dan. _gaard_, M.E. _garth_,
and _yeard_ from O.E. _geard_, Cu. _garth_, Shetland _gard_.
Is in form more specifically Norse than Dan. Occurs in a
number of place-names in South Scotland, especially Dumfries.
See I, Sec.3.
GATEFARRIN, _adj._ wayfaring, in the sense of fit to travel, in
suitable apparel for travel. Johnnie Gibb, 12, 35. Wall
distinguishes rightly between the O.N. and the Eng. use of the
word _fare_. This Scand. use of the word is confined to Norway
and Iceland, and is, at any rate in the later period, more
characteristic of Icelandic than Norse. Cp. a similar use of
the word _sitta_, in Norse, to look well, said of clothes that
look well on a person. Not quite the same.
GAWKY, _adj._ f
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