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There are several Scottish words I grew up using which are easily traceable to Swedish:

- Scottish = English = Swedish

- bairn = child = barn

- flitting = move house = flytt

- greeting = cry = gråt




"To flit" is also standard English, although more specific than the Scots use. It suggests a very small thing moving or fluttering, like a bird or insect.


It also means to escape and to leave suddenly, perhaps to avoid paying a bill or to avoid arrest, as in "He's done a flit".

I come from the south west of England and flit was a perfectly ordinary word though not used in the RP register.


Norse or perhaps Norrønt, not Swedish. The modern Scandinavian languages diverged later. And anyway most of the Scandinavians in Scotland were surely Norwegian not Swedish.


Also 'braw' in scots, or 'bra' in swedish, which both mean 'good'. Picked this up while watching The Bridge... there are others as well.




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