Bismer

History athin a wird. Shetland micht be spokken aboot as bein remote but da truth is it's ey been a central plaess, an troo da history o Shaetlan contact wi idder languages is nivver aesed. Da wird bismer, fir example, is onnly fun athin Shetland, Orkney an NE Scotland. Hit's a steelyard or widden beam øsed fir weighin produk. Hit fan it's wye intae dis plaesses fae da Danish bismer, at haed it fae Middle Low German bis(e)mer, possibly fae whin da Hansa wis on da go. MLGerman itsel got it fae da Balto-Slavic languages (seemlarly Russian haes bezmén, Polish bezmian & Latvian bezmēns, Lithuanian bezmēnas). Dat cam tae be fae Ottoman Turkish batman, at means 'unit o weicht' (o aboot 2.5-10 kilo dependin apø whin in time, da plaess an whit y'ir weighin). A pan-European trade route shaan athin a single wird.