(að), v. to become maggoty.
að, to become maggoty, Stj. 91: maðkaðr, part. maggoty.
(-s, -ar), m. maggot, grub, worm; maðka fœzla, food for worms.
m. [Ulf. mada = σκώληξ; A. S. madu; O. H. G. mado; Germ. made; an augmented form, Engl. maggot, qs. madog: Dan. madike; Norse makk, Ivar Aasen; Scot. mauch]:—a maggot, grub, worm; dvergarnir höfðu kviknat sem maðkar í holdi Ýmis … ok vóru þá maðkar, Edda 9; vall hann allr möðkum í hel, Rb. 414; mölu ok maðka, Fb. ii. 78; síðan hitti Þorbjörn í maðka-sjó sem liggr nær Vínlandi, … ok maðkr sá smó neðan skipit til úfæru, A. A. 198, 199; þar drógu vér maðka digrari manns læri, Al. 174, Stj. 91, Sks. 50 (improp. of an insect); ámu-maðkr, a rain worm; sjó-maðkr, sea worms, Þorf. Karl. 438; skel-maðkr, worms with shells, id. maðka-veita, u, f. a brood of maggots.
m. a sea full of worms.
m. a sea full of worms, Þorf. Karl. 438.
pp. worm-eaten (of a ship).
part. worm-eaten, of drift timber, ships.
(gen. manns, pl. menn, with the art. menninir), m.
1) man (irrespective of sex), human being (guð skapaði síðarst menn tvá, er ættir eru frá komnar);
sýndi ~ manni, one showed it to another, it went from from hand to hand;
fjöldi manns, a great number of people;
múgr manns, crowd of people;
2) degree in kinship;
vera at þriðja, fjórða, fimta manni, to be related in the third, fourth, fifth degree;
hann var manni firr en systrungr Bárðar, he was the son of a cousin of B.;
3) man, opp. to kona (síðan fór hann til manna sinna).
m., qs. mann-r, which form also occurs in old poets, engi mannr und ranni, Vellekla, (for the change of nn before r into ð see the introduction to letter N); gen. manns, dat. manni, acc. mann, plur. menn, qs. menn-r; with the article, menninir, so always in old writers, but in mod. mennirnir erroneously, as if from mennir: the plur. meðr, answering to the sing. maðr, occurs in old poets—meðr vituð öðling æðra, Fms. vii. 87 (in a verse); Norð-meðr róa naðri, vi. 309 (in a verse); meðr fengu mikit veðr, Edda 102; hirð-meðr, veðja, Rekst., all verses of the 11th and 12th centuries; er meðr Myrkvið kalla, Akv. 5: meðr hlutu sár, Fbr. 75 new Ed. (in a verse): gen. pl. manna, dat. mönnum, acc. menn. In Ballads and Rímur after the 15th century, and hence in eccl. writers of later times, a nom. mann is now and then used, esp. in compds influenced by Germ. and Engl., e. g. hreysti-mann, Skíða R. 58; or for the sake of rhyme, ætla þú ekki, aumr mann | af komast muni strafflaust hann, Pass. 14. 17: [Ulf. manna = ἄνθρωπος; in other Teut. languages spelt man, or better mann. …
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u, f. [A. S. maddere], madder, rubia, a plant, Hjalt.: freq. in local names, Möðru-dalr, Möðru-fell, Möðru-vellir, Landn.; Möðru-vellingar, the men from M.
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n. a wrestling trick. Fas. iii. 502.
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f. a belly full, Fas. iii. 101, K. Á. 78.
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n. shaggy hair on the belly. Fms. vi. 141.
m. stomach, belly, = kviðr.
a, m. [A. S. maga; Engl. maw; O. H. G. maho; Germ. magen; Dan. mave]:—the maw, stomach, Nj. 27: þeir báru sinn varning brott í mögum sínum, Þorf. Karl. i. 242, Fbr. 56 new Ed., Fas. iii. 223, v. l.; opt fær hlægis manni heimskum magi … kunna mál síns maga, Hm. 19, 20; grá-magi, rauð-magi.
COMPDS: magabragð, magafyllr, magaskegg.
n. strength, power; eptir öllu magni, to the best of one’s power.
n. [cp. megin and mega], main (as in ‘might and main’), strength; hver Guð hafa þér magn gefit? Bær. 9; trúa magni, Fas. i. 438 (in a verse); þótt magnit væri litið, Bs. i; sina-magn, the strength of the houghs, Vkv. 16; fyrir sakir magns munar, by main force, Bs. i. 679; vinds magn, Barl. 63; mátt ok magn, Fb. i. 259; meira magn, Bs. ii. 18; vera e-t um magn, to be beyond one’s power, too strong for one, Stj. 395; bera e-n magni, to overpower by main force, 512; hón segir at máttr skal at magni um liðveizlu við hann, she says that might shall go with main in helping him, Ó. H. 144; af magni, with might and main, Lex. Poët.; eptir öllu magni, id., Fms. viii. 104; er þat við meira magni, at þú gengr við slíkar meiðingar, it is a sorer thing that …, Bs. i. 531; magn flóttans = megin, Fb. ii. 615; magn ríkis síns, Al. 53: plur. goð-mögn (q. v.), see megin.
(að), v.
1) to charm, make strong by spell (hann ~ði með miklum blótskap líkneski Þórs); m. fjölkyngi, seið, to work a spell;
2) refl., ~st, to increase in power, grow strong (Glámr tók at ~st af nýju); eldrinn ~ðist, the fire increased in strength.
að, to empower, strengthen; Guð magnar jöfur, Fms. vi. (in a verse); oss magni goð gagni, may the gods grant us victory! Eb. (in a verse); rögn magna ríki Hákonar, Vellekla; magna þrif e-s, to give health and wealth to a person, Bs. i. 138 (in a verse); drengr magnar lof þengils, the poet magnifies the king’s praise, Sighvat.
II. in prose, to charm, make strong by spell; Óðinn tók höfuðit, ok kvað þar yfir galdra ok magnaði svá at þat mælti við hann, Hkr. i. 8; hann magnaði með miklum blótskap líkneski Þórs, Fms. i. 205; menn skulu eigi fara með steina eðr magna þá til þess at binda á menn eðr fénað, K. Þ. K. 78; þeir kölluðu hann Þorgarð ok mögnuðu hann með svá myklum fjandans krapti, at hann gékk ok mælti við menn, Fb. i. 213; ok svá mök var magnat líkneski Freys, at …, Fms. ii. 73; hefi ek þá svá signaða ok magnaða, at engan þeirra mun járn bíta, Fb. iii. 245; annan dag eptir en kerling hafði tréit magnat, Grett. 151; þeir tóku þá at magna fjölkyngi sína, Fms. ii. 141; fremja galdra eðr þá hluti nokkra er magnaðir sé, D. I. i. 243; hann var svá magnaðr af yfirsöngum Grímu, at hann bitu ekki járn, Fbr. 32 new Ed.; síðan er kerling hafði magnat rótina, Grett. …
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or mögnuðr, m. a strengthener; in poët. compds, hjaldr-m., a war-maker, warrior; sigr-m., a victor, Lex. Poët.
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a, m. a son of Thor, Edda, Ls.: a pr. name, Fms. xii.
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m. a pr. name; for the origin of this Norse name from Charlemagne see Ó. H. ch. 111,—hví létztu sveininn Magnús heita, ekki er þat várt ættnafn? Sighvatr svarar, ek hét hann eptir Karla-magnúsi konungi (king Charlemagne), þann vissa ek mann beztan í heimi. From this Magnús (king Magnús the Good, born 1024) the name afterwards spread to all countries in which Norsemen settled.
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and magn-lítill, adj. ‘main-less,’ weak, feeble.
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n., medic. weakness, palsy.
(mögr, magrt), a. lean.
adj., fem. mögr, neut. magrt, compar. megri, megrstr or magrari, -astr; [A. S. mæger; Engl. meagre; Dan.-Swed. mager; Lat. macer]:—meagre, lean; magran mar, Hm.; mögr kýr, Eb. 316; magr ok máttdreginn, Fms. vi. 302; hón var mögr, Róm. 216:—lean, þvílík slátr er svá eru mögr, Fms. x. 303; tvá hesta aðra feita en aðra magra, Nj. 32; verði þau mögr, Rb. 344:—as a nickname, þá var hann sveltr svá at þau kenndu hann eigi, þau höfðu hann brottu með sér ok kölluðu Helga enn Magra, Landn. 205.
a. lean-looking, pinched.
adj. lean-looking, pinched, Fas. iii. 178.
m. flesh of the belly.
m. tripe of sheep, the flesh of the belly, esp. of sheep, Fas. iii. 392, freq. in mod. usage. Norse kviðaal.
f. belly-full.
f. = maga-fyllr, Barl. 39, Hom. (St.) 11.
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n. [Dan. mag], irksomeness; ó-mak, troubles, (rare.)
II. in plur. mök, q. v. [Germ. machen; Engl. make], intercourse. maka-skipti, n. pl. [Dan. mage-skifte], exchange of estates.
(pl. mökur), f. female mate.
u, f. a female mate, Art.
(pl. mökur), f. female mate.
ð, [Engl. make; Germ. machen; a root word quite alien from the Northern languages, for of the three references below, two seem to be put into the month of foreigners trying to speak Norse]:—to make; in the phrase, ek ska1 maka honum háðung, I will ‘make shame’ to him, O. H. L. 45 (the persons in the story were prob. foreigners); maki enginn sukk, let none ‘make’ a disturbance, the words of John the Fleming in Bs. i. 801; byrjar oss at maka þessar þjóðir í várri dvöl með nokkurri venju, we ought to put them to some shame, Al. 119.
2. to smear, grease, freq. in mod. usage, perh. derived from maka háðung above, or it may be quite a different word.
m. match (m. e-s).
a, m. [Dan. mage, ægte-mage = husband; Old Engl. make]:—a match (prob. originally a customer, partner, cp. mak II), Nj. 35, Ld. 64, Eb. 86, Ó. H. 112, Bs. i. 765, Karl. 296; maki bólstrs, the ‘bolster-mate,’ poët. the head, Ad. 6; tveggja, fjögurra manna maki, a match (in strength) for two, four:—a mate, esp. of animals, birds, Bb. 2. 21, 29, 31.
n. pl. friendly intercourse.
n. pl. friendly intercourse; í makindum ok vinskap, Eg. 41; fór þat allt í makindi ok vinskap, Ld. 192. 2. rest, ease; í makindum, at one’s ease, cp. Dan. i ro og mag.
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að, (makk, n.), to job, make and meddle, akin to maka, q. v. (conversational).
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a, m., qs. manki, [mön = mane; Dan.-Swed. manke]:—the upper part of a horse’s neck, freq.
adv. fitly, properly.
adv. fitly, properly, Þorst. Síðu H. 173: deservedly, Ld. 148, Fms. v. 70, vi. 100, x. 325.
a.
1) meet, proper, becoming (er þat makligt, at);
2) deserving (~ e-s or til e-s).
adj. [Scot. makly], prop. well ‘matched,’ meet, proper, becoming, Fms. i. 3, vi. 227, vii. 285, Þorst. Síðu H. 173, Rb. 80; compar. more fitting:—deserved, Eg. 561; væri hitt makligra, at …, Fs. 57: deserving, of a person, with gen., makligr er Þórarinn þess frá oss, Nj. 25, Fs. 7; mikils góðs m., 35; öllum þóttu búendr makligir til skaða, Ó. H. 205; þykki mér Njáll makligr vera at ek unna honum þess, Nj. 188.
m. desert; at makligleik, eptir makligleikum, deservedly; hafa makligleika til e-s, to deserve.
m. (-leiki, a, m.), mostly in pl. what serves one right, Sks. 474, Fms. vii. 312, Fs. 165; at makligleik, deservedly, Þorst. Stang. 55, Fms. iii. 156, vi. 342.
a.
1) easy to deal with (þaðan frá var Eindriði hinn makasti);
2) only in compar., more suitable, becoming, convenient (H. kvað honum makara at sitja við elda en vera í sjóförum).
adj., only in compar. more suitable, easier, snugger; en þeir berjask er þat er makara, but they fight to whom that fitted better, Fms. xi. 277; hann kvað honum makara at sitja við elda, Fas. ii. 112; hann kann vel kyssa, makara væri (more becoming) at hann kynni jafnvel ríða með riddara vápnum, Str. 59.
2. = Lat. utinam; makara, at ek þín ambátt mætti finna miskunn í þínu augliti, would that í could! Stj. 302, 400, 428; makara, at minn herra Naaman væri nær spámanni Guðs, 616.
II. easy to deal with; þaðan frá var Eindriði hinn makasti, Bs. i. 709.
f. might, power.
f. [a for. word, for the genuine form is máttr, q. v.]:—might, power, Bs. i. 773, Clar., and in romances of a later date, freq. in mod. usage, Pass., Vídal. passim.
COMPDS: maktarleiki, maktarmaðr.
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a, m. might, H. E. i. 246.
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m. a mighty man.
a. pleasant, agreeable.
adj. leisurely, Fas. i. 325.
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n.
1) speech, faculty of speech (þrøngdi svá sóttarfari konungs, at hann misti ~sins);
þau hafa ekki ~, they are dumb;
2) language, tongue;
norrønt ~, the Norse tongue;
3) speech, speaking (hvárt er Flosi svá nær, at hann megi heyra ~ mitt);
4) colloquy, talk, speech;
koma á ~ (or at ~i) við e-n, to come to talk with, speak to;
finna (hitta) e-n at ~i, to obtain speech with;
krefja e-n ~s, to ask an interview with;
leita mills við e-n (spyrja e-n ~s, mæla ~ of e-m), to broach a subject to one;
bera ~ á e-t, hafa e-t á (or at) ~i, to speak (talk) of (allir menn höfðu á ~i, hversu fríðr maðr hann var);
lúka sínu ~i, to end one’s speech;
þat er ~ manna, at, people say that;
5) tale, story;
nú er þar til ~s at taka, now it must be told;
6) saw, saying;
fornt (fornkveðit) ~ er, at, it is an old saw that;
7) diction, construction of sentences;
8) sentence;
tvau ~, two sentences;
fullt ~, a full period;
9) suit, action, cause;
hefja ~ á hendr e-m, to bring an action against one;
búa ~, to prepare a suit;
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n. the purring of a cat, Snót 132.
(mel; mól, mólum; malinn), v. to grind (~ valbygg).
pret. mól, mólu; subj. pret. mœli, Gs. 10; part. malinn; reflex. pret. mólsk, Edda 78; a defect. strong verb supplied by weak forms, thus the strong pres. indic. sing. mel scarcely occurs; in mod. usage it is weak throughout, mala, malaði, malat, although the strong pret. may still be used in writing: [Ulf. malan = ἀγήθειν, Luke xvii. 35, and so through other Teut. languages; cp. Lat. mola, molere; Gr. μύλη; derived are Icel. mylja and melja, q. v.]:—to grind; en sú náttúra fylgði kvernunum, at þat mólsk á kverninni er sá mælti fyrir er mól, … Fróði konungr bað þær mala gull ok frið ok sælu Fróða … þær mólu litla hríð áðr niðr sukku skipin, Edda 78, 79 (the tale of Fróði and the power-mill, cp. 221); auð mölum Fróða (dat.) mölum alsælan, Gs. 5; né mœli svá mær bergrisa … malit hefi ek fyrir mik …, mól míns föður mær rammliga, … mölum enn framar, … mólu meyjar megins kostuðu, … malit höfum, Fróði, sem munum heita, 10 sqq.; frá ek at Fróða meyjar fullgóliga mólu, Edda 81 (in a verse); hann tók klæði ambáttar ok gékk at mala, Sæm. 110; mala valbygg, Hkv. 2. 2; konungr heyrði í hús nokkut kveðandi svá fagra, at honum fannsk mikit um, hann reið til hússins ok sá inn at þar sat kona við kvern, ok kvað for- knnnar fagrt við er hón mól, Fms. …
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a, m. a miller.
gen. from möl.
in compds, see möl.
n. beach-pebbles.
n. beach-pebbles, Eg. 141.
m. pebbleridge along the beach.
m. a pebble-ridge along the beach, Háv. 48, Finnb. 254, Grág. ii. 354.
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f. [from Fr. maladie], leprosy, 15. K. 107.
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að, to maunder, grumble.
f. pl. croup of cattle.
f. pl. the croup of a cow or ox (= lend, of a horse); rísti hann ofan af mölunum mitt, mikla lengju ok síða, Skíða R. 27.
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u. f. [Dan. malle = a loop], a loop, noose; þat var lásör ok malla (thus Cod. C) í, Sturl. i. 180 (Ed. mella). möllu-ör, f. a kind of shaft; Hemingr skýtr þá at konungi með möllu-ör, Hem. (MS.)
(-s, -ir), m. knapsack.
m., dat. mal, Fb. iii. 446, [Fr. malle, Engl. mail], a knapsack, Grett. 93 A, Þjal. Jóns. 7; hann tók hnjóðhamar ór mal einum, Fb. iii. 446, freq. in mod. usage.
n. malt (for brewing).
n., pl. mölt, Orkn. 112; maltanna, Glúm. 351; [A. S. and Engl. malt; Germ. malz]:—malt for brewing, Glúm. 351, Eg. 77, Orkn. 112, Fms. vi. 263, vii. 173, viii. 89, Gþl. 491, N. G. L. i. 5.
COMPDS: malthlaða, maltklyfjar.
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adj. sharp, bitter, of taste.
f. malt barn.
u, f. a malt barn, Þjal. 9.
f. pl. malt packs (carried by horses).
f. pl. malt loads, Fms. viii. 89. Glúm. 352.
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f. wormwood, Pr. 472.
I) n.
1) household, house-folk; bondslaves;
2) bondwoman, female slave; þær ‘ro máttkar meyjar at mani hafðar, these mighty maids are held in bondage;
3) woman, esp. young woman, maid; líki leyfa hins ljósa mans, to praise the fair maid’s form.
II) from muna, munu.
n., does not occur in plur. unless it be in gen. pl. mana, Stor. 13 (mͣ in MS.); [man is an ancient word only used in old laws and poetry, it remains in the compd man-sal, and in the Icel. local name Man-heimar; ‘man’ (ἀνδράποδον), being neuter and having but one n, is prob. of different origin from mann (ἄνθρωπος, ἀνήρ), which is masc. and has a double final n. The etymology of this word is lost in the remotest antiquity; it appears in the O. H. G. mana-houbit = a bondman’s head, a ‘serf’s head;’ (Grimm in R. A. expresses a doubt as to the current etymology of Lat. man-cipium from manu-capere; perh. man and caput?). In early Swed. law the word occurs twice or thrice, næmpnæ man, næmpnæ quicfæ, Schlyter i. 134; in Gutalagen—kauper tu mans man i garth thin (i. e. mans-mann = a bondman, cp. mans-manna and mans-maðr, see Schlyter’s Glossary).]
B. A bondman, prob. originally of prisoners of war who were sold as slaves (Irish in the west, Finns and Slaves in the east), see Ld. ch. 12, Ó. T. (Fms. i. ch. 92); svá ok ef hann vill í mani gjalda, tva aura fyrir einn, ok á hann lausn á maninu en næstu misseri ef hann hefir upp alit, Grág. …
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(að), v. to challenge.
að, [Dan. mana = to raise a ghost], to provoke, challenge, D. N.; to challenge to fight or to a quarrel, Mittum-stangi manaði Hrólf, Skíða R. 149: freq. in mod. usage, eg mana þig að koma! manaðu mig ekki.
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m. the king of Man, Fms. passim.
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m. pl. Manxmen.
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n. [for. word], manners. Stj. 121, 159, Clar., El.
n. barter, peddling.
n. [cp. mid. Lat. mangonus; A. S. mangian, to traffic; mangere, a trader, which survives in Engl. iron-monger, scandal-monger; derived from manig, from traffic in mingled, miscellaneous things; as manga is used in Kormak, and even in a derived sense, it need not be borrowed from the A. S., but may be a genuine Norse word formed from margr at a time when the n had not as yet changed into r]:—‘monging,’ ‘mongery,’ barter; allir þeir menn, bæði konur ok karlar, er með mangi fara, hvárt sem þeir hafa mang sitt í búðum eðr stræti, N. G. L. ii. 204; laxa nýja ok svá aðra nýja fiska ok ostrur þat skal kaupa á bátum eðr á bryggjum en vill, en eigi flytja í búðir til mangs, 263; prestar skulu eigi fara með mangi né okri, H. K. ii. 53. mangs-maðr, m. a monger, Ld. 146.
(að), v. to barter, chaffer.
að, to trade as a ‘monger,’ to barter, chaffer, Str. 26, Karl. 323: þeir mönguðu (bartered) um hross við Skíða, Sturl. ii. 170; kaup-manga, i. 171: metaph. to biggle, beg, manga til við e-n, brings við hörn at manga, Kormak.
(að), v. to barter, chaffer.
u, f. [cp. Scot. Maggie], a contr. form from Margrét, as also Mangi irom Magnús.
2. a mangonel, a war machine, Fms. ix. to.
m. monger, higgler.
a, m. a monger; mangari verr fé sitt í marga vánda vöru, Str. 26: in a vile sense, mangarar eða falsarar, Sks. 17; mangarar, mylnarar, sútarar, skinnarar, slátr-mangarar, N. G. L. ii. 204; kjöt-m., a butcher, 1 Cor. x. 25; cp. Kjödmangergade (the present Kjöbmagergade) in Copenhagen. mangara-skapr, m. mongery, N. G. L. ii. 417.
pron., see manngi.
= manngi (q. v.), see -gi:—Mangi, contr. of Magnús.
from maðr, man.
að, prop. to make a ‘man.’
2. mod. to man a boat, manna skip.
II. reflex, to become a man, to be brought up to manhood; Þórir var maðr ætt-smár ok hafði mannask vel, Fms. iv. 255; ætt-smár ok mannaðr vel, well bred, Ó. H. 113; var móðir mín vel mönnuð, of good family, Brandkr. 62; ef mér reynisk Þórólfr jamvel mannaðr (if I find Th. as accomplished a man) sem hann er sýnum full-drengiligr, Eg. 29; vil ek biðja dóttur þinnar til handa Glúmi bróður mínum, skaltú þat vita, at hann er vel mannaðr, Nj. 23; synir þeirra vóru Kálfr ok Grímr, mannaðir at hófi, K. and G. were rather fine well-bred men, Fms. vi. 102; son þinn svá vel mannaðan, ii. 193; engar eru þat yfirbætr at hann nái at eiga dóttur þína, þvíat ekki er hann verr mannaðr en hón, Fb. i. 196; hann á sjau sonu ok alla vel mannaða, Ísl. ii. 215; maðr af góðri ætt er lítt er mannaðr, Skálda 176.
2. manned, of a ship; vel (ílla) mannað, well (badly) manned, of the crew; var þar vel mannað, there was a good gathering of people, Grett. 78.
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f. the breeding, accomplishment of a man, Js. 24, Barl. 6; fullkominn til mannanar allrar, þeirrar er kurteisum konungi byrjar at hafa, Fagrsk. 3.
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f. = mannást, Al. 45.
n. unmanliness, meanness.
n. unmanliness, meanness, Fb. iii. 448.
m. a brave man.
m. a brave man, Eg. 39, Fms. iv. 86.
adv. without slaughter or loss of life (sættast-laust).
n. adj. without slaughter, loss of life, Sturl. ii. 63.
m. man-slayer, murderer.
manndrápa-maðr, m. a man-slayer, murderer, Fms. xi. 226, Stj. 517, Hkr. i. 155.
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f. a case of murder, Sks. 692, 786, Stj. 467.
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n. a violent gale, in which many lives are lost.
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n. an assembly held on account of a murder, Gþl. 438.
from maðr, man.
a, m. = maðr, answering to the Goth. manna; sumt ekki at manna (dat.?), Fms. vi. 53: as a nickname, Maurer’s Volkssagen.
m. manfulness, manhood, valour.
m. manfulness, manhood, valour, Fas. iii. 305; hvárki spara penninga né mannskap, spare neither money nor men, Þórð. 100 new Ed:—human nature, 677. 12. mannskapar-lauss, adj. pithless, lacking strength and manhood, Fas. ii. 386.
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m. an oath taken in a census, N. G. L. i. 200.
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n. a county meeting in the spring, Gþl. 438, Jb.
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u, f. a nickname ot a lady, Landn.
a. void of understanding.
-lítill, adj. artless, with little wit, Sks. 45, Krók. 43.
m. wise man.
m. a wise man, Sturl. i. 9.
a. sensible, intelligent.
adj. ingenious, Sks. 620.
m. strength in men.
a, m. strength in men (troops), Lv. 47.
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f. depopulation, Fms. vi. 14.
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f. charity, love to men.
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m. a great, good man, Edda (Gl.), Lex. Poët.
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u, f. a ‘man-bitch,’ a term of abuse. Post. 151.
f. the saving of life; brutu þar skipit allt í spán, en þó varð ~, but the men’s lives were saved.
f. the saving of men, saving of life; brutu þeir skipit, þar varð m., Nj. 282, Ann. 1413. mannbjargar-maðr, m. a rescuer.
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adj. sociable.
n. human sacrifice.
n. human sacrifice, Bs. i. 23, Fms. viii. 293, xi. 135.
n. banquet.
n. n banquet. Fms. i. 161, vi. 119. Róm. 303: a message, 329.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), of manly bearing.
m. ice-spur.
m. iron spikes to walk on ice with, Vápn. 1.
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f. pl. weregild for one slain, Eg. 259.
2. sing., mannbót, a feat, prowess, Gísl. (in a verse).
m. loss of life, mortality.
a, m. = manndauðr; in compds, manndauða-sumar, -ár, -vetr, Ann. 1402, 1404, 1405 (of the great plague), Bs. i. 822.
m. loss of life, mortality.
m., later mann-dauði, a, m., dat. manndauðnum, Fms. x. 212:—loss of life, mortality, Eg. 98 new Ed., Fms. x. 211, Bs. i. 31, Ann. passim.
f. manful deed, act of prowess.
f. a manful deed, act of prowess, in plur. virtues, Hom. (St.) 59, MS. 686 B. 8, 625. 184.
f. difference of opinion, division.
f. a discussion, division, Fms. x. 97.
m. fiend of a man.
m. a demon in human shape, fiend of a man, cp. Germ. Manteuffel, Fs. 36.
a. manly.
adj. human, Mar., Edda 147 (pref.), Barl. 110.
m.
1) human nature;
2) manliness, prowess;
3) humanity, generosity; sýna e-m manndóm, to show kindness to one.
m. manhood, humanity, human nature, Edda 149 (pref.), Pr. 465, Gþl. 40, Sks. 688; taka á sik manndóm, of the Incarnation, Barl. 27, 168.
II. manliness, prowess, Nj. 176, Al. 83, Fms. ix. 333.
2. humanity, goodness, generosity, Fms. i. 222; engan manndóm né hjálp vildu bygðar menn sýna þeim, 197; sýna e-m manndóm, to shew kindness towards, Bs. i. 35.
COMPDS: manndómsást, manndómsleysi, manndómsmaðr.
n. murder, slaughter.
n. murder, slaughter, Hom. 86: esp. in plur. slaughter in a fight, Fs. 9, 135, Edda 40, Fms. iii. 11, vi. 421, Hkr. i. 290, Stj. 621.
COMPDS: manndrápalaust, manndrápsmaðr, manndrápssök, manndrápsveðr, manndrápsþing.
m. man-slayer, murderer.
a, m. a man-slayer, murderer, Gþl. 22, Stj. 13.
f. virtue.
f. virtue, Bs. i. 46, Fas. iii. 395.
f. pl. manly qualities.
f. pl. manly qualities, 625. 26, Rb. 378, Róm. 302, MS. 655. vii. 2, Al. 87, Geisli 18, Edda (Ht.) 13.
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f. the having a husband, Greg. 74.
n. maintenance of a person.
n. the maintenance of a person, Grág. i. 296, 444: human food, Ám. 66; gott til manneldis.
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u, f. = mannást.
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u, f. = mannlæra, Glúm. 341, but a doubtful passage.
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u, f. [Germ. mensch, m.; cp. Ulf. mannisks = ἀνθρώπινος; Dan. menneske; Swed. menneska; Scot. mensk]:—a man (Lat. homo); from the time of the Reformation this word is freq., but it is rare in old writers; indeed, hann tók manneskju hold, Hom. 160, is the only instance on record, for A. A. 196 is a compilation from a paper MS.; the word is, however, a good one, and is freq. in N. T., Vídal. passim: in mod. usage it often, in both speech and writing, takes the place of mann (maðr).
a. = mannýgr.
adj. = mannýgr, Bs. i. 368.
m. the fare at a banquet, great entertainment.
(-fögnuðr), m. a grand entertainment, the fare at a banquet, Eg. 482, Hkr. i. 139, Ísl. ii. 403, Fas. ii. 118.
n. slaughter, loss of life (in battle).
n. slaughter in battle, Eg. 32, 59, 298, Nj. 44, Gullþ. 24, 25, Fms. i. 24, vi. 406, vii. 57, Ó. H. 40, passim: of sickness, Sturl. iii. 279, Ann. 1349 (of a plague or sudden death).
n.; eiga ~ í sonum, to have able sons.
n. = mannkaup; þykist þú m. eiga í sonum, Fas. ii. 521.
m. shipload of men.
m. a ship-load of men, Fms. viii. 33, 382.
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a, m. [fá = to draw], a ‘man-image,’ human figure; rauðan skjöld ok dreginn á mannfái, Fb. ii. 250; cp. þar var kveiktr fái á, Konr. 17 (vellum); var kvikr fái (a ‘life-image,’ figure drawn from life) á þeim grafinn, id.
a. having few men (hafa mannfátt); þykki mér mannfátt í bœnum, few people.
adj. having few men; hón er mannfá, has but few inhabitants, Stj.: neut., mannfátt, few people, Fms. vi. 207, vii. 312.
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m. great mortality, from plague, hunger, or the like.
f. passage, passing of people.
f. = mannaferð, Sturl. iii. 132, Ísl. ii. 148.
m. human fiend.
a, m. a human fiend, Fs. 36, 44, Fms. ii. 83.
m. multitude, crowd of men.
a, m. a multitude, crowd of men, Fms. vi. 203, vii. 161, xi. 108, Ann. 1403, passim.
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f. people, Ad.
a. compar., see mannmargr.
see mannmargr.
m. fool, idiot.
a, m. a fool, idiot, Boll. 352, Fs. 40.
n. mankind, men (allt ~).
n. ‘man-folk,’ mankind, Hkr. i. 5, 9, Fas. i. 391, Edda 43, Fms. i. 24, Eg. 47, Edda 147 (pref.), Hkr. ii. 267, (but land-fólkit, Ó. H. 162, l. c.)
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n. manumission; better man-frelsi; see man.
II. freedom, rights of man, mod.
a. skilled in mannfrœði.
adj. skilled in mannfræði, Hkr. iii. 250.
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f. ‘man-science,’ history, esp. genealogies; at öllu fróðr, lögum, ok dæmum, mannfræði ok ættvísi, Fms. vii. 102; lög eðr sögur eðr mannfræði (genealogies?), Bs. i. 59; en nam, þá er eigi dvaldi annat, þat er móðir hans kunni kenna honum, ættvísi ok mannfræði, 91; Bárðr kenndi Eið lögspeki ok m., Bárð. 24 new Ed.
m. meeting.
m. a meeting, Nj. 113, Fs. 39, Fms. i. 35, Grett. 106 A.
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u, f. money (fúlga) for a person’s maintenance (mod. meðgjöf), Grág. ii. 343.
f. mean, worthless fellow, rascal.
u, f. a ‘foul person,’ rascal, a term of abuse, Nj. 56, Fs. 39, 46, 51, 99, Rd. 262.
f. lack of people, smallness of population.
f. smallness of population, lack of people, N. G. L. i. 376, Róm. 346.
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u, f. human food, Fms. i. 126, ii. 242.
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n. = mannfæða, Stj., Fb. i. 111.
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f. the condition of a road, Eg. 546.
f. = mannferð.
f. travelling, Eg. 114, Hkr. ii. 188.
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m. a muster of troops, Orkn. 112 old Ed.
m. ring of men.
m. a ring of men, Eg. 80, Al. 169, Fas. ii. 33.
f. ‘jewel of a man’, paragon (hinar beztu manngersemar).
f. a ‘jewel of a man,’ Bs. i. 81, Þiðr. 153.
(gen. mannskis), pron. no man, nobody; mannskis mögr, no man’s son.
often spelt mangi, gen. mannskis, Hm. 115, 147: acc. manngi, 623. 31, Fms. vi. 196 (in a verse), Ísl. ii. 483; dat. manni-gi, Greg. 65; [mann-gi, see -gi]:—no man, nobody:
1. in poetry; svá er maðr sá er manngi ann, Hm. 49; nýtr manngi nás, 70; leiðisk m. gott ef getr, 131; er m. veit, 139; svá at mér m. mat né bauð, Gm. 2; m. er þér í orði vinr, Ls. 2, 35; síðan þik m. sér, 59; mun míns fjár m. njóta, Skv. 2. 5, Sdm. 12; sköpum viðr manngi, Am. 46; bannar þat m., 75: mat þú villat né mannskis gaman, Hm. 115; mannskis mögr, no man’s son, 147; at mannskis munum, Skm. 20, 24: acc., manngi annan, no other man, Fms. vi. 196 (in a verse): used as adjective, m. annarr mildingr, 26 (in a verse), Landn. 197 (in a verse).
2. in prose; svá er sagt at m. veit hvat Guð er, Eluc. 3; ok mælti því m. í gegn, Íb. 17; manngi (acc.) hyggjum vér göfgara né tignara en Krist, 623. 31; regn görði svá mikit at mannigi vas ór husi út gengt, Greg. 65; mælti þá manngi í mót honum, Fms. viii. 244, v. l.; manngi skal kenni-mönnum eigna þat, at …, Greg. 19; hann telr þat manngi (acc.) munu gört hafa, Ísl. ii. 483 (Heiðarv. S. excerpts); þrætta ek við manngi, Post. …
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f. a longing for a husband.
(-girni), f. a longing for a husband, Ísl. ii. 162.
a. eager to marry.
adj. eager to marry, (Dan. giftesyg), Fms. vi. 104.
adv. eagerly.
adv. eagerly, Fb. i. 555.
n. pl. weregild.
n. pl. weregild, Eg. 575, Nj. 22, 189, Lv. 55, passim.
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u, f. goodness, kindness, Nj. 282, v. l.
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f. the contribution of a man to the levy, as also the district which had to contribute one man, N. G. L. i. 15, 100. manngörðar-maðr, m. a member, inmate of a m., N. G. L. i. 12.
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n. ‘man-hate,’ misanthropy.
a. of a man’s height; lypta mannhátt, to a man’s height.
adj. of a man’s height, Bs. i. 422, Ann. 1414, Fas. iii. 266.
m. danger of life.
a, m. danger of life, Fms. xi. 23, Hkr. ii. 78, Bs. i. 321.
f. blood revenge.
f. blood revenge, Fs. 73, Nj. 57; fébætr eða mannhefndir, 165, Lv. 68; mannhefnda laust.
f. favour, good report; hann hafði ~ mikla, he was very popular.
1. f. bliss, favour, good report; var sá kynsþáttr kallaðr Skíðungar, ok hafði litla mannheill, Korm. 160; hann átti lítið fé ok m., Sturl. i. 74; vitr ok vinsæli, ríkr ok góðgjarn, hann hafði m. mikla, iii. 96; svá virðisk mér, at minni m. hafir þú á Íslandi en hér með oss, Fbr. 91; hann var vinsæll ok mannheilla-maðr mikill, and a very popular man, Fs. 86.
2. adj. safe and sound; to the question, hvað er í fréttum? the answer is, mannheilt og ó-sjúkt; meðan mannheilt var, D. N. ii. 358.
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u, f. good health of men, D. N. ii. 845.
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m. pl. ‘Man’s-home,’ the abode of men, ἡ οἰκουμένη, opp. to Goð-heimar, Hkr. i. 14 (Yngl. S.)
f. inviolability of person, sanctuary (þar var ~ mikil).
f., mod. mann-helgi, f. indecl.:—personal rights, inviolability of person, N. G. L. i. 8: the section of the law treating of personal rights, also called mannhelgar-bálkr, ii. 45: hér hefr upp mannhelgi vára, þat er fyrst í mannhelgi várri, at …, id.:—a sanctuary, þar var mannhelgr mikil, ok miklar viðlögur við manns aftak, Fms. x. 391.
m. circle, ring of men.
m. a circle, ring of men, Orkn. 112, Eg. 88, Fms. ii. 174, x. 229, Ó. H. 177, Stj. 415, Bs. i. 629, 633.
m. dog of a man, scoundrel.
m. a ‘man-dog,’ scoundrel, Fb. i. 354, Gísl. 50, Fs. 38, Stj. 624, Karl. 502.
n. pl. dwelling-houses.
n. pl. ‘man-houses,’ dwelling houses, Gísl. 29.
f. man’s height.
f. a man’s height, as a measure, Sturl. i. 118, Bs. i. 347.
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adj. gentle, of animals, opp. to mannýgr, Stj. 57.
f. = mannháski.
u, f. = mannháski, Lv. 53, Korm. 80, Hkr. ii. 26, Bs. i. 621; mannhættu-laust, without danger of life, Eb. 118.
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adv. dangerously, Fms. viii. 350, v. l.
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adj. dangerous to life, Ó. H. 26, Fms. ix. 516, vi. 394.
f. keeping, maintenance of a person.
f. the maintenance of a person; í viðar-föngum, smíðar-kaupum ok mannhöfnum, Bs. i. 81. mannhafnar-maðr, m. a good husband, Bs. i. 26.
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u, f. wickedness, Fms. iii. 89.
m.
1) comparison of men; fara í mannjafnað, to make a comparison between persons;
2) matching or pairing of persons (as to the weregild to be paid).
or mann-jöfnuðr, m. a comparison of men, i. e. a dispute in which each contends that his hero is the greatest; þar var ölteiti mörg, þar var talat um mannjöfnuð, ok hverr þar væri göfgastr maðr í sveit eðr mestr höfðingi ok urðu menn þar eigi á eitt sáttir, sem optast verðr ef um mannjöfnuð er talað, i. e. a comparison of persons is odious, creates strife, Eb. 184; Þorsteinn svarar, ekki ferr ek í mannjöfnuð, segir hann, Ísl. ii. 214; þar var margt talat er menn vóru drukknir mjök, ok kom þar at rætt var um mannjöfnuð, Orkn. 210; þeir fóru í mannjöfnuð ok töluðu um Þorgils ok Eirek, Fs. 149; var mart talat við drykkinn, ok þar kom at farit var í mannjafnað, ok því næst var rætt urn konungana sjálfa, Fms. i. 58; for a classical instance see the dialogue between the two brother kings, Mork. 186 (mannjafnaðr konunga, cp. Fms. vii. 118 sqq.)
2. a matching or pairing of persons as to the weregilds to be paid for wounds and slaughter on both sides after a battle, Ísl. ii. 384, Fb. iii. 453.
n., í e-m er gott ~, he is a great acquisition.
n. ‘man-bargain;’ in the phrase, þat er gott m. í e-m, a person is a good bargain, an acquisition, Fms. vi. 99, Fb. ii. 280,; gott er m. í Vagni, faðir, Fms. xi. 154.
f.
1) mankind;
2) race.
f. mankind; ok ólusk þaðan af mannkindir, Edda 6; miklu fríðari en önnur mannkind á Norðrlöndum, Fas. i. 387; þessi m., these people, Róm. 276.
m. pl. good qualities, virtues.
m. pl. human virtues, good qualities; dýrligir mannkostir, Orkn. 160; hann talði upp fyrir henni mannkosti Ólafs konungs, Hkr. ii. 86, Al. 87, Mar. passim.
f. run of visitors.
f. a visit of guests, Landn. 81.
a. n., þar var ekki ~, few came there, it was a lonely place.
n. adj., in the phrase, þar er m. (or ekki m.), many people come there, it is frequented by guests; þar var ekki m., few people came there, it is a lonely place, Grett. 137.
f. levying of men.
f. a summons or levying of men, Sturl. iii. 40.
n. mankind.
n. mankind, N. G. L. iii. 299, Stj. 41, 371, Pass., Vídal. passim: a race, offspring, allt þat m. er frá honum kom, Ver. 6; frá þeim kom mart m., 19: kind of people, H. E. i. 526.
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n. slander of people, defamation.
a. without a husband.
adj. without men:—without a husband, Ld. 184, Fas. iii. 390.
n. loss of life.
n. pl. loss of life, Sturl. iii. 93, Ó. H. 213.
n. good-for-nothing fellow.
n. the being mannlauss:—a good-for-nothing person (mod. mann-leysa, u, f.), Fms. ii. 62, v. l.
adv. manfully.
adv. manfully, Fms. i. 263, vii. 261, ix. 471.
a.
1) human (mannligt eðli);
2) manly, becoming a man (er þat ~a at fara at duga honum).
adj. human, Greg. 54, Hom. 23, 83, Bs. i. 181; mannligt eðli, human nature, Barl. 27, Eb. 110, MS. 623. 19; mannligr veykleikr, Magn. 504, passim.
2. manly, becoming a man; ok er þat mannligra at fara at duga honum, Ó. H. 117; mannlig er orðin ferð þíu, Lv. 24; sonr einkar-vænn ok m. = mannvænn, Barl. 152: compds, mikil-m., stór-m., magnificent; lítil-m., small.
f. image of man.
n. a human image, idol, Ó. H. 109, Stj. 470: beings in human shape, Vsp. 10.
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u, f. mannlæra, El.
n. blemish.
n. a blemish, Grett. 161, Róm. 188.
f. = mannleysi.
u, f. a bad person, Fms. ii. 62, Valla L. 218, (Ed. mannlæða.)
m. blemish, fault, opp. to ‘mannkostr’.
m. a blemish, Gísl. 15.
a. having many men; hafa mannmargt, to have many people, forces; hafa mannfleira, to have more men, followers.
adj. having many men; esp. in neut., hafa mannmargt, to have many people, forces, Nj. 254, 259, Fms. i. 290, Fs. 183: compar., hafa mannfleira, to have more men, followers, Glúm. 345, Fms. vi. 106, xi. 237; hann var miklu mannfleiri þar á nesinu, Orkn. 307.
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n. a host of men, N. G. L. i. 58.
f. host of people, crowd.
f. a host of people, crowd, Fas. ii. 483.
m. honour, esteem (among men); löngun til mannmetnaðar, ambition.
m. ambition, Edda 145 (pref.), Hom. (St.) 50.
m. crowd of people.
m. (mann-múgi, a, m., Pr. 425), a crowd of people, Ó. H. 213.
m. miscreant.
m. a ‘nithing,’ miscreant, Lv. 44, Ó. H. 157.
n. fame, repute.
n. fame, repute. Fas. iii. 533, freq. in mod. usage.
f.
1) trial (of courage), danger, peril (jafn hinum fremstu í öllum ~um);
2) trial (of the feelings), adversity (þá er hann misti sonar síns, var þat þó ~, en þetta engi).
f. a trial; í hverri m. ok þraut, Clem. 45; Dróttinn tók á sik allar mannraunir, all human trials, 623. 19:—trial, danger, jafn hinum fremstu í öllum mannraunum, perils, dangerous tasks, Eg. 21, Bs. i. 638; koma í mannraunir, perils, Al. 61; þú þorir lítt í nánd at koma þegar er nokkur er m. í, Fær. 30; röskr í öllum mannraunum, Fs. 3, 120:—experience, lítillar skynsemdar ætli þér mik ok enga mannraun kunna, Fms. vi. 53:—trial, adversity, þá, or hann misti Ljóts sonar síns, var þat þó mannraun en þetta engi, Þorst. Síðu H. 174.
n. pl. plots against a man’s life; standa í ~um, to take part in such plots.
n. pl. plots against a man’n life; þó hafa húsfreyjur verit góðar, at eigi hafi slaðit í mannráðum, Nj. 53; cp. fjörráð.
m. gathering of men, people assembled.
m. a gathering of men, Fms. iv. 119, Ld. 76:—people assembled, Fms. viii. 64, Ísl. ii. 83, Grág. ii. 165.
f., esp. pl. ~ir, penalty paid in one’s person, opp. to fésekt, outlawry, banishment.
f., esp. in pl. a penalty paid in one’s person, opp. to fésekt: in the old law it signified outlawry, banishment of any of the three degrees, Bs. i. 675; hvárki fé né mannsektir, Ísl. ii. 385, cp. Nj. 189.
f. manfulness, valour.
f. valour, a απ. λεγ., Hdl. 3; or perh. = man-semi, love-making, or the being agreeable to women (?), see man.
m. loss of life, great loss in a person’s death (ok er þat enn mesti ~ at taka þá af lífi).
a, m. ‘man-scathe,’ loss of life, Eg. 90: a great loss in a person’s death, þeir sögðn honum vígit, Gunnarr sagði, at þat var lítill m., Nj. 61; ok er þat enn mesti m. at taka þá af lífi, 136: havoc in men, þeim manni er þér hafði gört enn mesta mannskaða, Ó. H. 47; hann var þeirra meir lagðr til mannskada, Th. was the more murderous fighter of the two, Fbr. 23 new Ed. mannskaða-veðr, n. a destructive gale.
m. rascal.
m. a rascal, Fas. i. 330.
f. poor creature.
u, f. a ‘man-creature,’ poor creature, Rb. 360, Fas. iii. 644.
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a, m. a wicked man.
f. miserable coward.
n, f. a miserable coward, Fms. ii. 61, 93; nú muntú verða at draga af þér slenit, mannskræfan, Grett. 91, Fb. i. 523, Mag. 56.
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adj. ‘scatheful,’ savage to man; stór dýr ok mann-skæð, Hkr. i. 69, Rb. 344: of a battle, bloody, Fms. i. 44, ii. 316, 323, passim.
m. honour, reputation.
a, m. honour, reputation, Eg. 106.
n. destruction of life.
n. destruction of life, Eg. 278, Orkn. 108, Fms. viii. 351.
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t; mannspilla sér, to degrade oneself; eg vii ekki m. mér á því.
n. = mannspell.
n. = mannspell, Fagrsk. 64.
m. rush of people.
m. a rush of people, Bs. ii. 66.
n. manhood, pith.
n. manhood, pith; það er manntak í e-m, there is pith in him, Grett. 136 A. manntaks-semi, f. energy.
n.
1) ‘tale of men’, muster;
2) census.
n. a muster, ‘tale of men,’ Grág. i. 66, N. G. L. i. 97; skora m., to muster troops, Ó. H. 203, Stj. 456: a census, at manntali, by tale, Bær. 6: Grág. ii. 381.
COMPDS: manntalseiðr, manntalsþing.
m. loss of life.
a, m. loss of life, Grág. ii. 130, MS. 625. 14, Bs. ii. 111, Fb. i. 70, Ver. 73; manntapa-vetr, a winter of great mortality, Ann. 1196.
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taldi, to tell the people, Stj. 546.
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n. a ‘tatter of a man,’ a poor wretch.
n. = manntapi.
n., for the gender see tjón; = manntapi, Fms. vii. 263, x. 418, Sks. 79 new Ed., Bs. i. 327.
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f. humanity, goodness.
a. gentle, affable.
adj. gentle, Lat. humanus, Fas. iii. 219.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), gentle, affable.
n. choice people, select body of men (hafði hann gott ~).
n. choice people, a select body of men; þat mesta m. á landinu, the best men of the county, Nj. 33, 173, Eg. 38, 43, Fms. vi. 46, x. 25: mod. also of one person, a goodly man, hann er mesta mannval.
a.
1) particular as to choice of a husband;
2) req uiring an able man.
adj. difficult, requiring a man, Fms. xi. 137.
2. particular as to choice of a husband, of a lady, Nj. 48, Band. 29 new Ed.
f. seizing, catching of a man.
f. the seizing, catching of a man, Sturl. i. 166.
f. misstatement of paternity.
u, f. personation, Grág. i. 353.
f. rank, renown, honour.
f. rank, renown, honour; var Leifi gott til fjár ok mannvirðingar, Fb. i. 541, Þorst. Síðu H. 177, Eg. 4, Nj. 111, Lv. 89, Magn. 466.
n.
1) work of human hands;
2) great work (ok er þat it mesta ~).
n. man’s work, work of human hands, Symb. 26:—labour, með miklu m. ok kostnaði, Stj. 646:—a great work, monument, síðan tóku þeir at ryðja götuna, ok er þat et mesta m., sem enn sér merki, Eb. 132; ok nú létu þeir göra þat m. er víðfrægt er ok kallat er Dana-virki, Fms. xi. 28; þeir görðu m. (of the tower of Babel), Ver. 10; sú en ágæta borg Tirus verðr at ösku ór slíku mannvirki, Al. 48.
n. understanding.
n. [Dan. mande-vid], ‘man-wit’ understanding, with the notion of ‘mothers-wit,’ good sense, as opp. to bók-vit (‘book-wit’); úbrigðra vin fær maðr alldregi, en m. mikit, Hm. 6, 10, Hbl. 3; mál ok m., Sdm. 4; minni ok m., Fms. xi. 298 (in a verse); önd skynsamleg ok m., Ver. 2; ok urðu þeir (the dwarfs) vitandi mannvits ok höfðu manns líki, Edda 9; því at hann (the dog) hefir manns mannvit, Fms. x. 254; siðgæði þat má engi eignask nema hann hafi m. með, ok eigu þessir hlutir mannviti at fylgja, Sks. 437; mannvits ok góðrar náttúru, 475; hljóta sumir spádóms anda, sumir mannvits anda ok spektar, 561; m. ok skilning, 49; at mannviti, réttlæti eða sannsýni, 474: learning, þér hafit minna m. numit en ek, Mag. 3; lærðr til alls mannvits, Sks. 474.
COMPDS: mannvitsbrekka, mannvitslauss, mannvitsmaðr, mannvitsamligr.
m. fool (?).
m. [Engl. wittol], a ‘wittol’ of a man, a wittol, as a term of abuse, a απ. λεγ., Ísl. ii. 340 (Heiðarv. S., but undoubtedly bearing this meaning).
a. hopeful, promising.
adj. = mannvænn, Sturl. i. 3, Fms. iv. 179, vi. 107, Eg. 187, Gullþ. 4, passim.
a. hopeful, promising.
adj. hopeful, promising, of a young person, Eg. 514, Fms. i. 20, vi. 443.
a. entitled to be with other men.
adj. (qs. eiga vært hjá mönnum), beiddu þeir lausnar (absolution) af honum, svá at þeir skyldi vera mannværir, Fms. ix. 534, v. l.
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f. = mannúð.
a. vicious, dangerous (of a bull).
mod. mann-eygðr, adj. vicious, of animals, bulls, Hkr. i. 37, Bs. i. 319, Lv. 91.
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adj. lacking men, K. Á. 70.
f. throng of men.
f. a throng of men, Fms. ii. 172.
a. in need of men.
adj. in need of men, Mar.
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(qs. -œli?), n. [a απ. λεγ., prob. identical with Ulf. manauli = σχημα, Phil. ii. 8], a ‘man-shape,’ hence a mannikin, as a term of contempt, cp. Germ. weibs-bild; hann var m. mikit ok veslingr, Finnb. 214.
f. cannibal.
u, f. a ‘man-eater,’ cannibal; tröll ok m., Bret. 12, Fb. i. 526, N. G. L. i. 434, ii. 495; blóðdrekkr eða m., Fas. iii. 573.
m. bondman.
m. a bondman, Fms. i. 78, 222.
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u, f., -kvæði, n., -vísa, u, f. a love encomium, love song, love ditty, Eg. 5, Bs. i. 165, Fb. iii. 241, 242, Ölk. 36, Fs. 60, 87.
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captive-folk, prisoners; in Orkn. 368 (Fb. ii. 486, l. 8), þeir seldu þeim silfr ok ‘annat fé’ is corrupted for ‘mans-fólk,’ as is seen from the words of the Danish translation of 1615—‘ok solde dennem fangerne.’
m. = mansalsmaðr.
m. [early Swed. mans-man], a bondman, Grág. i. 271. Eg. 89, K. Þ. K. 58.
a. youthful.
adj. youthful, epithet ot a girl, Hm. 163.
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n. a granting of freedom to a bondman, manumission (as a vow), Orkn. 198, 200, Grág. i. 357, where it is wrongly spelt mannfrelsi.
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m. pl. (thus pronounced on the spot, not Mann-heimar, as it is often spelt), the name of a farm in western Icel.; the local legend attributes the name to English captives kept there by lady Olöf, for having slain her husband, during the English trade (1467). But at that time the word man had become quite obsolete, and so the name must be older, prob. dating from the time of the first settler Geirmund, who had been a freebooter in the British waters before he came to Icel.; he may have had his household of bondmen at this farm, see Safn i. 353 (foot-note).
n. pl. choice of maidens.
n. pl.; góð m., luck in love affairs, Hbl. 31.
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n. (?) = mansmaðr, N. G. L. i. 345, 347; see the references above.
f. pl. ‘love-runes’, love-spells.
f. pl. ‘love-runes,’ love-spells, Eg. 587.
n.; selja e-n ~i, to sell one as a slave.
n. a ‘man-sale,’ slave trade, slave-selling; selja e-n mansali, Fær. 117, Fms. i. 185, Fb. ii. 79.
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skar, [mön = a mane], to cut a horse’s mane.
n. pl. mane-shears.
n. pl. mane-scissors, Bjarn. 62.
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n. the place of the mane, Sks. 100.
m. love song.
m. a love song, Eg. 325. Bs. i. 165, Edda 16; esp. in the old law a kind of love libel, liable to outlawry, Grág. ii. 150, Fb. iii. 242: in mod. usage the lyrical introduction to the epic rhapsodies or ballads (rímur) is called mansöngr, for originally they were addressed to the poet’s lady-love, Skald H. 6. 1, Skíða R. 1, and in countless instances, e. g. Úlf. 1. 8, 2. 8, 3. 8, 4. 8, 5. 7, 7. 9, 9. 11, cp. 11. 10.
m. pl. the Manxmen.
m. pl. [Mön = Isle of Man], the Manxmen, Fms.
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f, pl. love-tricks, Hbl. 20.
I)
(-ði), v. to be waterlogged, float low in the water (marði þá undir þeim skipit).
II)
f. nightmare, incubus.
u, f. [Engl. night-mare; akin to merja = to crush]:—the night-mare, an ogress; en er hann hafði lítt sofnat, kallaði hann ok sagði at mara trað hann, menn hans fóru til, ok vildu hjálpa honum, en er þeir tóku uppi til höfuðsins þá trað hón fótleggina svá at nær brotnnðu. þá tóku þeir til fótanna, þá kafði hón höfuðit, svá at þar dó hann, Hkr. i. 20; the word also occurs in one of Kormak’s verses; it is freq. in mod. usage.
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(-ði), v. to be waterlogged, float low in the water (marði þá undir þeim skipit).
II)
f. nightmare, incubus.
pres. mari; pret. mardi; part. marat: only the pret. is found in old writers, but the word is still in full use except in pret. subj.:—to be water-logged, float just under the surface of the water; en fullt var skipit ok marði uppi um stundar sakar … en meðan skipit marði uppi, Bs. i. 355; marði þá undir þeim skipit (the ship was water-logged) svá at þeir fengu eigi upp ausit, 386: þá tók at kyrra veðrit en skipit marði, Fas. ii. 80; síðan kom Áki upp ok marði þar á vatni at kalla, iii. 581.
n. marten’s fur.
n. [mörðr], a marten’s fur, B. K. 98, Dipl. iii. 4.
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m. manifoldness. Str. 21.
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(mörg, mart), a.
1) in sing. a collect. sense, both as subst. and a., many a (one);
~ maðr, many a person;
~ mun þik öfunda, many a one will envy thee;
neut., mart, many things, opp. to ‘fátt’ (tala ~, margs vitandi);
í mörgu, in many things, in many respects;
fyrir margs sakir, for many reasons;
mart manna, many people;
2) in pl. many (særðr mörgum sárum);
3) fig. friendly, communicative, opp. to fár (var hann ~ við Árna biskup).
II)
m. great number;
ekki má við margnum, no one can stand against great odds.
adj., fem. mörg. neut. margt, usually spelt and pronounced mart; compar. fleiri, q. v.; superl. flestr; [Ulf. manags = πολύς; A. S. manig; Engl. many: O. H. G. manag; Dutch mennig; Germ. manche; the n is found in all South-Teutonic languages, and the word is explained by Grimm as a compd from mann (homo) and the suffix -gi (-cunque); the Norse margr is the same word, having only changed the n into r, for the n remains in a few derivatives, as mengi (a crowd), menga (to blend), manga, q. v.: in mod. Swed. and Dan. the n has been resumed from intercourse with the Germ.; Dan. mange; early Swed. marger, but mod. Swed. mânga]:—many; munu margir þess gjalda, Nj. 2; meiri er veiðr í Flosa en mörgum öðrum, 232; marga þína muni, Ld. 102; særðr mörgum sárum … mörgum mönnum, … margir menn, Fms. x. 370; margir slíkir, many such. Nj. 6; marga penninga, Dipl. ii. 10.
2. sing. in a collect. sense, both as subst. and adj.; mart man, Fms. i. 185; margr maðr, Fb. i. 241; margr sá fróðr þvkkisk, Hm. …
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f. a pr. name, Margaretta.
a. fickle, whimsical.
adj. variable, whimsical, Fs. 86, Vápn. 1. Fas. ii. 7.
f. fickleness.
f. variety,
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part. intricate.
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part. sly, Lil. 16.
a. very dear.
adj. very dear, Hallfred.
(að), v. to multiply.
að, to multiply, Fms. i. 137, Sks. 628, Rb. 462, Stj. 428 (repeated), Alg. 358: to address, in plur. by ‘þér,’ Sks. 303.
f. multiplication.
f. multiplication, Alg. 356.
adv. manifoldly.
adv. manifoldly, Stj. 51, Fms. i. 76, v. 346: margfaldligar (compar.), i. 184.
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adj. manifold, Stj. 55, Barl. 27: gramm., margfaldligr láta = plural, Skálda 186; margfaldligar hlutir, nouns in plural, Edda 85. 86.
a. manifold.
adj. manifold, Fms. v. 265. Sks. 312.
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adj. eager for learning, Sks. 493.
a. learned in many things, much knowing.
adj. learned in many things, much knowing, Hm. 102; vitr maðr ok m., Bs. i. 410, Fms. iv. 135, x. 392, Sks. 493: of a wizard, Hkr. i. 73.
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f. varied learning, Str. 1, Clar.
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m. the great furtherer. Ad.
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u, f. the insect cancer brachyurus, Eggert Itin. 609.
a. multifarious, of many kinds.
adj. of many kinds, Fms. i. 272, vi. 48. 145.
pp. often heard.
part. often heard. Fms. ii. 137.
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að, in a pun (= stóð), Krók. 63, 64.
pr. p. knowing many things.
part. knowing many things, Landn. 110, Fs. 131, Fms. iii. 90.
a.
1) = margfróðr;
2) = fjölkunnigr.
adj. = margfróðr, Rb. 308: = fjölkunnigr, foruspá ok margkunnig, Fs. 33. 54, 67, Grett. 150.
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f. witchcraft, Ísl. ii. 422.
a. many-branched.
adj. many-branched, Fas. iii. 60, Sks. 441.
a. many-branched.
adj. id., Bárð. 164, Stj. 534, Sks. 565.
a. n. where many people come (þar var eigi ~).
n. adj. where many people come; þar var ekki m., Grett. 157 A.
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adj. = margkunnigr, Fs. 68.
a. fickle, loose.
adj. loose, fickle, variable; marglát kona, Bær. 11, Skálda 194; aldri skal ek verit hafa marglátari (more excessive) söllum hlutum en nú, Fms. x. 290: as a nickname, Teitr inn margláti (= superbus?), Bs. i. 27.
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a. m. intimacy, Sturl. iii. 198.
adv. friendly, intimately, opp. to fáliga.
adv. intimately, friendly, Sturl. iii. 286.
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adj. variegated.
a. fickle-minded.
adj. changeful of mood, fickle, Hkr. i. 16, Fms. iii. 83.
n. fickleness, wantonness, looseness.
n. wantonness; leitar hann ekki á þik, þá er þér m. at bregða vist þinni, Lv. 26, Bs. i. 530 (wanton cruelty); var þat mælt at Eyjólfr slægi á m. við hana, that E. made love to her. Sturl. ii. 39.
a. talkative.
adj. talkative, Ó. H. 202, Fagrsk. 14.
n. multitude, many men.
n. many men, a multitude, Th. 94, Fb. i. 241, Bs. ii. 37: the majority, i. 720 (margmengit MS.)
a. with many men (hversu ~ ertu?).
adj. with many men, Sturl. ii. 249, Fms. ii. 261.
f. loquacity.
f. loquacity. Th. 76.
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n. = margmælgi, Fms. vi. 209.
pp. talkative.
part. many-spoken, Eb. 258: talkative, slanderous, Nj. 22.
adv. very often.
adv. very often, Rd. 240.
a. using many words, long-winded.
adj. long-winded, using many words. Fær. 14, Hkr. iii. 263.
a. very cunning or tricky.
adj. cunning, Barl. 27.
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part. much talked of, Fms. vii. 169, Al. 169, Glúm. 330.
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u, f.; much talk, Fms. ix. 252, v. l.
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part. talkative, Fagrsk.
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adj. many a time.
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adj. very sly, Barl. 56.
a. penetrating, subtle.
adj. penetrating, subtle, Sks. 565. 637.
a. very wise.
adj. very wise, Haustl., Íb. 4.
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adv. in many places, Nj. 185, Stj. 135, Bs. i. 208 (var margstaðar holdit á beinunum, thus to be emendated).
pp.
1) = margmæltr;
2) much talked of (gøra margtalat um e-t).
part. using many words, Fms. vi. 304; göra margtalat við e-n, Finnb. 328, Band. 8 new Ed., Stj. 581; var lengi margtalat um vígit, Nj. 22.
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adj. very cheerful, Orkn. (in a verse).
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n. adj. frequent, usual, happening often; margtítt er þat at menn deyi, Fms. vi. 105, Hom. 114: sem margtítt er, as is usual, Stj. 411; sögðu þat sem margtítt er, Fms. vii. 309.
a. of many-sided learning.
adj. of many-sided learning, Al. 6, Sks. 317 B.
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adv. in many ways.
a. various, of many kinds.
adj. various, of many kinds, Sks. 411.
a. = margfróðr.
adj. = margfróðr. Barl. 27, Fms. ii. 183, Bárð. 2 new Ed., Stj. 436, Háv. 55.
a. of many words = margorðr.
adj. = margorðr, Sks. 92 new Ed.
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a, m. the post of a bedstead = upp-standari.
n.
1) mark, token, sign; þat er eitt m. um djarfleik hans, one proof of his daring; til marks um e-t, as a token (proof) of;
2) matter of importance; er þat ekki m., it signifies nothing; lítit m. er at því, it is of little consequence; lítit m. var þá at, er þeir Beli hittust, of no great account was his meeting with B.; at marki, in real earnest, greatly (reiðast at marki);
3) mark (as a sign of property); kenna sitt m. á e-u, to recognize as one’s own mark; a mark on sheep’s ears (þá var m. Sigfúss á sauðum);
4) ornamental figure (hón hafði knýtt um sik blæju ok vóru í mörk blá);
5) boundary mark (skógar m.).
n., pl. mörk, [a word common to all Teut. languages; Ulf. marka = ὅριον; A. S. mearc; Engl. march; Germ., Swed., and Dan. mark; Lat. margo; the original sense is an outline, border, whence are derived mörk, border-land; also merki, merkja, q. v.]:—a landmark; mark milli Grafar ok Bakka, Dipl. ii. 2 (landa-merki); ganga yfir þat mark er náttúran hefir sett, Mar.: a mark for shooting, skjóta til marks, Sks. 379 (mark-bakki).
II. a mark as a sign of property; kenna sitt mark á e-u, to recognise as one’s own mark, Bs. i. 720.
2. a mark on sheep’s ears; bregða af marki á sauðum, Grág. i. 397; nú bregðr maðr búi sínu er mark á, ok er honum rétt at ljá öðrum marks, 425; ef maðr leggr alstýfinga-mark á fé sitt, ok varðar fjörbaugs-garð nema honum sé lofat á lögréttu, 426; ef menn taka mark at erfð þá skulu þeir skipta þvi sem öðrum arfi, 422; þat fé gékk með mörkum Þóris, Gullþ. 26: phrases, erfða-mark, a ‘hereditary mark;’ eiga mark saman, Grág. i. 423; nauta-mark, 397.
COMPD: markatafla.
III. metaph. a mark, sign; ek vil segja þér eitt til marks um, at …, Nj. …
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(að), v.
1) to mark, draw the outline of; m. grundvöll undir kirkjuna, to draw the ground-plan of the church;
2) to mark as one’s property (þau naut vóru öll einn veg mörkuð);
3) to mark by an emblem (er þat mitt ráð, at menn marki stálhúfur sínar);
4) to draw (hann hafði rauðan skjöld ok ~ðr á hjörtr);
5) to observe, infer (mil of því m. hverr maðr hann var); þar eptir máttu m. hans fegrð, from this you can judge of his beauty;
6) to take notice of, heed, mind (Þórðr kvað eigi drauma skyldu m.);
7) to describe (~t hefi ek fyrir þér birting lopts).
að, prop. to draw outline of, sketch, cp. mark above, [Engl. to mark; cp. also Lat. margo, a kindred word]:—to mark, draw the outline of; marka grundvöll, to mark out, draw the ground-plan of a building; lagði hinn helgi Jón biskup af sér skikkju sína ok markaði sjálfr grundvöll undir kirkjuna, Bs. i. 171, MS. 656 B. 8; síðan markaði konungr grundvöll til kirkju í þeim stað, Fms. i. 203; var þar markaði hólmstaðr, Eg. 486; hann markaði tóptir til garða, Ó. H. 42; marka sér völl, Fs. 128; oss var aldr of markaðr, Landn. (in a verse); er í þeim fræðum mörkuð öll skepna, Ver. 1; markat (drawn) hefir ek fyrir þér með nokkurum orðum birting lopts, Sks. 236.
2. to fix; marka verð hve vera skal, to fix the price, Grág. ii. 234.
3. impers., ok markaði svá til, at …, it appeared as if, of the outlines, Fms. v. 314.
II. to sign, mark as one’s property; þau naut vóru öll einn veg mörkuð, Fms. i. 152; nú markar maðr annars fé sínu marki, Grág. i. 416: metaph., hann markaði sik sjálfan því hreinlifis marki, Ver. 14 (of the circumcision); kotkarl einn markaði þrettán kúlur í höfði þér. …
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(gen. -ar), m. market; fig., var þeim settr inn sami m., they got the same treatment (= höfðu þeir ina sömu kaupferð).
m., gen. markaðar, Fb. i. 304, l. 12; spelt marknaðr, Fms. viii. 304 (v. l.), D. N. iii. 229: [not from marka, but like Engl. market, Germ. markt, borrowed from the Lat. merc-s, mercatus; the genuine Norse word for market is torg, q. v.]:—a market; meðan markaðrinn stóð, Fms. i. 185; var þar m. ok kaupstaðr, viii. 304, ix. 219, Fb. i. 204 (of an Engl. market):—metaph., var þeim settr inn sami m., they got the same treatment, Fms. viii. 41; ferr hann til annarrar borgar ok settisk þar um, ok setti þeim þvílíkan markað sem inum fyrrum, x. 237.
(að), v.
1) to mark, draw the outline of; m. grundvöll undir kirkjuna, to draw the ground-plan of the church;
2) to mark as one’s property (þau naut vóru öll einn veg mörkuð);
3) to mark by an emblem (er þat mitt ráð, at menn marki stálhúfur sínar);
4) to draw (hann hafði rauðan skjöld ok ~ðr á hjörtr);
5) to observe, infer (mil of því m. hverr maðr hann var); þar eptir máttu m. hans fegrð, from this you can judge of his beauty;
6) to take notice of, heed, mind (Þórðr kvað eigi drauma skyldu m.);
7) to describe (~t hefi ek fyrir þér birting lopts).
or markar-, see mörk.
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n. landmarks, D. N. ii. 496.
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n. pl. boundaries, N. G. L. i. 87.
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-tafla, u, f. a scroll on which the sheep marks are entered.
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u, f. an entry of all the ‘marks’ in a district using the same mountain pastures, see also the description in Piltr og Stúlka, as an illustration of Icelandic life; even the church had a mark, kirkja á mark, Vm. 29.
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m. a man of mark, Eg. 15, v. l.
f. forest district.
f. [mörk], a ‘forest-country,’ opp. to open country made into fields, Hkr. i. 88, Magn. 442, Ó. H. 201, Fms. vii. 25.
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n. a march-boundary, D. N. i. 81.
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m. a march-fence, boundary fence, Dipl. ii. 1.
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n. the blubber with the harpoon’s print in it, Gþl. 462.
n. forest-land.
n. forest-land, with the notion of march-land, border-land, Hkr. i. 45, Eg. 58.
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adj. without a mark: metaph. meaningless.
f. track through forests.
f. a track through forests, Hkr. i. 76.
n. = markleið.
n. = markleið, Hkr. i. 55.
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u, f. nonsense.
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m. a kind of plough used in a woody county, Sks. 425.
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f. = markreina, N. G. L. i. 245.
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f. = markreina, D. N. i. 81.
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u, f. a boundary line, N. G. L. i. 42, Gþl. 460.
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n. pl. borders, marches, Gþl. 452.
m.
1) march-stone;
2) a stone laid to mark a spot.
m. a mark-stone, landmark, Gþl. 286, 543, Eg. 492 (of a battle field): stones laid to mark a spot, Bs. i. 346.
f. boundary stake.
u. f. a boundary stake, Bs. i. 329.
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m. a border field, N. G. L. i. 42.
m. marble.
a, m. [Lat. word], marble, Stj. 46, Róm. 342, Sks. 188, Bs. ii. 103; marmara-grjót, -steinar, slabs of marble, Symb. 57, Str. 5, Karl, 14.
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n. the mermannikins work = millepora polymorpha.
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a, m. the merman’s weed = corallina officinalis, Maurer’s Volks.
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m. [merja], a contusion.
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(gen. marar), m. sea;
sígr fold í mar, the earth sinks into the sea.
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(gen. mars, pl. marir and marar), m. horse, steed (hann kvað hest mar heita).
1. m., gen. marar; [Ulf. marei = θάλαςςα; A. S. mere; Hel. meri; O. H. G. meri; Germ. meer; Lat. mare]:—the sea; sígr fold í mar, the earth sinks into the sea, Vsp. 57; mik hefir marr miklu ræntan. Stor; vátr marr, Skálda (in a verse); kaldr marr, Edda 101 (in a verse); líða yfir marr, Vþm. 48: metaph., mun-strandar marr, the sea of the breast, the song, Höfuðl.; mistar marr, the sea of mist, the air, Hkv. 1. 96: in prose this old word remains in the marar-botn, m. the bottom of the sea; Páll lifði tvau dægr á marabotnum, 655 xxvii. 6, and so in mod. usage; it also remains in various compds, mar-álmr, mar-bakki, mar-flatr, mar-mennill, mar-gýgr, mar-hrísla, mar-knútr, mar-svín, mar-vaði, mar-rein, etc., q. v.
II. in local names, Aust-marr (q. v.), A. S. Eastmere; Mar-bæli, q. v.
2. m., gen. mars, dat. mari, Vþm. 12; pl. marar, Hkr. i. 237 (in a verse), Skv. 2. 16; pl. marir, Fm. 15, Hkv. Hjörv. 28; but acc. pl. mara, Akv. 37, Rm. 35; marina = mara ina, Akv. 13: [A. S. mearh or mear; O. H. G. marah]: …
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m. sea-reed, marram.
m., qs. marhálmr, ‘sea-straw,’ sea-grass, Bs. i. 594: cp. Hjalt.
m. steep bank near the shore.
a, m. the ‘sea-bank,’ the border between shoal and deep water along the coast, see Ivar Aasen; síð. in málvinir minir fyrir marbakkann sukku, Vígl. (in a verse), N. G. L. ii. 140, v. l.
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m. the sea-bed, shore, Ó. H. (in a verse).
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n. the local name of a farm near the sea, D. I. Marbælingar, m. pl. the men from M., Ld.
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n. a nickname, Bs.
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or Mar-þöll, f. gen. Mardallar, one of the names of Freyja, Edda 21: prop. a mermaid, Jónas 151; Mardallar-grátr. the tears of M. = gold. Lex. Poët.; cp. the Mardallar-Saga in Maurer’s Volkssagen.
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adj. horizontal, on the sea.
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f., pl. flær, an insect, ‘sea-flea,’ cancer pulex.
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m. the sea-level, (mod.)
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u, f. ‘sea-glitter,’ a kind of jelly fish, Eggert Itin.
m. margrave, marquis.
a, m. [Germ. mark-graf], a margrave, marquis, [mid. Lat. marchio,] count, Þiðr., Ann. 1264.
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f. adj. [cp. marigold?], epithet of a lady, Hkv. Hjörv., a απ. λεγ. and poët.
f. mermaid, sea-ogress.
f. a mermaid, sea-ogress (see gýgr), Fms. iv. 56, Ann. 1329, Sks. 169, Grett. 93 new Ed.
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u, f. [proviuc. Norse mare-rís], (?), Edda (Gl.) ii. 483.
m. sea scorpion.
m. [marr = sea], a kind of fish, cottus scorpius. Norse martulk, Edda (Gl.), Eggert Itin. 359.
m. pl. ‘sea-traversers’ (of witches).
part. pl. ‘sea-sliders,’ sea-farers; margir eru marlíðendr, many there are who slide over the sea, of witches, spirits, Eb. 44, a saying.
m. ‘sea-mannikin’, merman.
m., thus Landn. 76, 77; mar-mandill, Fas. ii. 31 (thrice); in popular mod. usage in Icel., mar-bendill; the Hauksbok (Landn. l. c.) spells it margmelli; whence the mod. Norse marmæle, Ivar Aasen:—prop. a ‘sea-mannikin,’ a kind ot sea goblin or sea dwarf, in the Norse fairy tales. The marmennil is now and then hooked by fishermen; being a soothsayer, he tells them what is to happen. The classical passages in oid Icel. writers are the Hálf’s S. ch. 7 and the Landn. 2, ch. 5; for mod. times see Maurer’s Volks. 31, 32, as also Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 131–134. Inseparable from these tales is the merman’s ‘laughter;’ he generally laughs thrice, e. g. the king kisses the queen, beats his dog, and stumbles over and curses the mound, at each of which the merman laughs; and being asked why, he says that he laughs at the king’s foolishness, for the queen is false, but the dog is true and will save his life, and in the mound there is a hidden treasure; hence, þá hló marbendill, then the merman laughed, has in Icel. become proverbial of a sudden, unreasonable, and spiteful fit of laughter. The coincidence with the English legend of Merlin the ‘wild man’ in the romance of Merlin, (edited by the Early Engl. …
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a, m. in a pun, Skálda 237 (in a verse).
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f. the sea line, in marreins-bakki, a, m. = marbakki, the bank where the deep and shallow water meet; nú hittir maðr sel fyrir ofan marreinsbakka, N. G. L. ii. 149 (v. l. marbakka); hann skal biðja hann heima vera meðan hann rær fyrir útan marreinsbakka eða gengr fyrir ofan garð, i. 89; þá skal hann ganga útan garðs eða fara út um marreinsbakka, ok fara aptr til húss síðan, 23.
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u, f. [merja], a ‘crush-sledge,’ Art. 78, a απ. λεγ. rendering of macue = mace, of the French original.
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n. ‘sea-swine,’ sea-hog, a kind of whale, Eggert Itin.; marsvína-rekstr, Fél. vii. 28, the driving whales ashore.
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f. being ‘trodden’ by a mara, nightmare, Fél. x. 15.
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a, m. [Swed. marwatten = eddy], sea water, shoal water (?); only in the phrase, troða marvaða, to tread the water, of a swimmer in an upright position; the word also occurs in Fas. ii. 83 (foot-note, in a verse)—er marvaða mæddu Ránar jóð, but its use there is dubious.
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n. ‘sea-thatch,’ poët. ice, Grett. (in a verse).
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m. ‘sea-thread,’ a kind of sea-weed.
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u, f. a kind of crab, Eggert Itin. 997, Edda (Gl.)
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n. tittle-tattle, chat, Bb.
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að, to chatter, prattle.
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að, [prob. an iterat. from meita], to whittle, carve a piece of wood idly with a knife; massa niðr spýtu, hvað ertu að massa?
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m., gen. mastrs, [a for. word introduced from Engl. and Germ. mast,] a mast; the word which is now freq. is not found in old writers, who call the mast siglutré.
I) n. estimate, taxing.
II) from meta.
n. an estimate; the truer form is mát (like dráp, nám, gát, át, from drepa …); the word was originally a Norse law term, and is not found in the Grág., but was, at the union with Norway, adopted in Icel., where it soon lost its long vowel; it is actually spelt maat (i. e. mát) in D. N. ii. 225 (maats menn = taxation); eptir sex manna máti, Jb.; eptir góðra manni máti, Vm.; eptir máti, id. (Mr. Jón Thorkelsson).
I) n. estimate, taxing.
II) from meta.
n. [meta], an estimate, taxing, Jb. 195; eptir mati sex skynsamra manna, Dipl. v. 3; jarða-mat, see jörð.
f. provender, mess (rare).
1. u, f. [matr], provender, a mess; of a crew, Kolbeinn lét Hrapp þá fara mötu til sín, Nj. 128, v. l.; the food of fishermen: a fee to the priest (paid in butter), called prests-mata.
COMPDS: mötunautr, mötuneyti.
2. að, [matr], to feed another, as the nurse does the sick and children; hann getr ekki matað sig, það verðr að mata hann, of a person who cannot even eat without assistance.
II. reflex. matask, to eat, take food, take a meal, Nj. 175, Fms. i. 35, Fb. ii. 273, Eg. 232, K. Þ. K. 136; spurði hví hann mataðisk svá seint, why he went on eating so slowly, Eb. 244.
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m. leavings from the table or of food, K. Þ. K. 47.
m. fare, provisions.
a, m. fare, provisions, Fs. 146.
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f. ‘meat-love’ cupboard love; hafa m. á e-m, to have ‘meat-love’ for a person, to love him for his table’s sake.
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n., a Norse law phrase, referring to the taxation of an estate, thus, hundrað, sextigi … mánaða matarból, an estate of a hundred, sixty … months’ food, Fms. x. 153, N. G. L., D. N., B. K. passim.
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n. a ‘meat-bower,’ pantry, whence abbreviated búr (q. v.), Sturl. i. 355.
f. appetite.
f. appetite, 4. 21.
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n. pl. = matföng, Ísl. ii. 465.
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f. dairy work, cooking, etc., Glúm. 367, Gþl. 102.
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adj. meat-stingy, of a bad master who starves his household, Fms. i. 1.
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n. = matkaup, Fms. viii. 353, v. l.
a. without food.
adj. meatless, without food, Fb. i. 131.
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f. appetite.
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u, f. the taking food, Sks. 434.
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m. a portion.
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n. board wages, Gþl. 513.
m. meal.
m. a meal, Bs. i. 122.
f. a certain weight or quantity of victuals.
f. a weight (measure) of victuals, Sturl. ii. 60.
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n. diet.
(gen. matar, pl. matir), m. food, meat; hafa sér e-t at mat, to feed on (morgin-döggvar þan sér at mat hafa); pl. stores of food, provisions.
m., gen. matar, dat. mat; with article matinum, Grág. i. 47 (mod. matnum); plur. matir; it is twice or thrice in Fb. spelt mát with a long vowel, with which cp. the rhyme máta uppsátr, Hallfred,—máta (gen. pl.) viggjar uppsátr = a pantry (the explanation given in Lex. Poët. and hence in Fs. 214, seems erroneous); for the long vowel cp. also Ormul. mete (not mette), Engl. meat: [Ulf. mats = βρωσις; A. S. mete; Engl. meat; O. H. G. maz; Swed. mat; Dan. mad]:—meat, food; matar ok váða er manni þörf, Hm. 3; matar góðr, ‘good of meat,’ hospitable, 38; bjóða e-m mat, Gm. 2; morgin-döggvar þau sér at mat hafa, Vþm. 45, Skm. 27; þá var matr fram settr, Fbr. 21 new Ed.; bera mat á borð, to put meat on the board, Nj. 50; þú skalt stela þaðan mat á tvá hesta, 74; bera mat í stofu, eptir þat setti hón borð ok bar þar á mat, … viljum vér víst gefa yðr mat … síðan gengu þeir undir borð ok signdu mat sinn, … átu gestir mat sinn, Eb. 266, 268; Gunnarr vissi slíks matar þar ekki ván, Nj. 75; þenna aptan enn sama mælti Bergþóra til hjóna sinna, nú skulu þér kjósa yðr mat í kveld, þvíat þenna aptan mun ek bera síðast mat fyri hjón mín …, þykki mér blóð eitt allt borðit ok matrinn, 197; …
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m. a ‘meat-earner,’ a person who earns his food, but gets no wages, Jb. 469; mod. matvinnungr.
f. provisions from hand to mouth.
f. provision from hand to mouth, Ó. H. 153.
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n. a ‘meat-idol,’ an idol of dough, N. G. L. i. 383.
n. a dressed table (sitja yfir ~i).
n. a dressed table, a table at meal-time, Eg. 63, Bs. i. 669, Ó. H. 237, Fms. vi. 195, viii. 51.
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adj. eager, gluttonous.
f. greediness.
f. gluttony, Hom. 24.
(see búa), v. to dress food, cook (var hjörtrinn matbúinn).
bjó, to dress, meat, cook, Fms. i. 9, vii. 288, Jb. 398, Bs. i. 593, Eb. 198, 266, Bret. 102, Stj. 165.
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f. the dressing of food. matbúðar-maðr, m. a cook, Stj. 443, Fms. ii. 139.
m. cooking, dressing of food.
m. = matbúð, Stj. 166, 280.
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n. a ‘meat-bower,’ pantry, Bs. ii. 134.
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m. victuals, Rétt. 47.
a. n. short of provisions (hafa ~).
n. adj. short of provisions, Sturl. ii. 43, Fs. 142.
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m. fish for food. Post.
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m. time to eat in peace; eg hef ekki matfrið.
n. pl. stores of food.
n. pl. stores of food, Fms. ii. 99, Ó. H. 127, Sks. 141, Bs. ii. 179.
f. cooking.
f. cooking, matgerðar-maðr, m. a cook, Gþl. 99.
m. food-giver.
a, m. a meat-giver, bread-giver, Fms. viii. 307.
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n. a fine paid in food, Grág. i. 451.
f. gift in food.
f. a gift in food (to the poor), Grág. i. 296, 443.
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m. a ‘meat-beak,’ nickname of a beggar.
a. liberal as to food.
adj. liberal as to food, Sæm. 38.
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m. a glutton.
a. of a good digestion.
adj. [North. E. meat-hale], sound so as to be able to eat, Sturl. i. 20.
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a, m. a meat-safe, Stj. 154.
n. purchase of victuals.
n. purchase of victuals, Orkn. 344, Fms. vii. 78, viii. 367.
m. meat-kettle.
m. a meat-settle, Fms. ix. 422.
m. ‘meal-crow’, glutton, a nickname.
m. a meat-crow, glutton, a nickname, Sturl. iii. 51.
n., gott (illt) ~, a productive (unproductive) district.
n.: gott, íllt m., a productive or unproductive district, Fms. vii. 78.
a., matlöng stund, such a tune as it takes to eat a meal.
adj.; matlanga stund, such a time as it takes to eat one’s meal, Ann. 1294; cp. drykklangr.
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n. pl. a fee for board, Grág. i. 147. matlauna-maðr, m. = matannungr, Gþl. 260.
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a, m. = matlaunamaðr, Grág. ii. 43.
a. without food.
adj. without food, Eb. 266, Ld. 200, Gísl. 57, Fms. ii. 97.
m. loathing of food.
a, m. a loathing of food, 677. 3.
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n. lack of food. Fms. vi. 325, xi. 288, K. Þ. K. 130.
n. board, fare.
n. board, fare, Fms. viii. 435.
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m. a great eater.
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a, m. a ‘meat-monger,’ provision-dealer, N. G. L. ii. 246.
n. mealtime, meal.
n. meal-time, Grág. i. 261, Nj. 197, Sd. 144; milli matmála, between two meals, Bs. i. 108; lítil er líðandi stund, löng matmáls stund, Hkr. i. 154 (a saying):—a meal. Fms. vii. 160.
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f. ‘meat-mother,’ used of a mistress with respect to her servants and household, cp. Engl. bread-giver.
m. one who starves his people.
m. a ‘meat-nithing,’ one who starves his people, Sæm, 38, Fas. ii. 133.
n. pl. the husbandry of food.
n. pl. ‘meat-rule,’ the husbandry of food, dispensing food to the household, the duty of the mistress in olden times, Bs. i. 139, see Nj. ch. 128.
f. dressing of food, housekeeping.
1. u, f. the making food ‘ready’ dressing food, doing dairy and pantry work and the like; þat er ekki karla at annask um matreiðu, Nj. 75, Fs. 73, Grág. i. 459, Fas. ii. 76.
2. d, = matbúa.
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a, m. a jetsum of victuals (fishes, whales), Vm. 141.
f. distribution of food at meals.
f. = matreiða, Eb. 266.
f. housekeeper.
u, f. a laundress, Lv. 36, Nj. 59, Eg. 759, Eb. 92.
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adj. stingy of food, Band. 38 new Ed.
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a, m. a cook, Nj. (in a verse).
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m. victuals, food, Vm. 164.
f. food bowl.
f. a meat bowl, Bs. i. 703.
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m. a meat drawer, pantry.
m. lack of food.
m. lack of food, Krók. 66.
f. dried fish for food.
f. dried fish for food, H. E. ii. 98.
a. sparing of food.
adj. = matsinkr, Sd. 152, Fs. 146.
m. cook.
m. a meat-boy, cook, esp. on board a ship, Fs. 150, Eb. 192, Þiðr. 127, Fms. x. 129.
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n. ‘meat-hog,’ the beggar’s scrip, Skiða R. 20.
a. ‘meat-lucky’.
adj. meat-lucky, Band. 38 new Ed.
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adj. fastidious, difficult to please as to one’s food.
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f. fastidiousness as to food.
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m. = matannungr; hann er ekki m.
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f. food, fare, Sks. 189.
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f. gluttony, Hom. 24.
a. greedy.
adj. ‘meat-scenting,’ greedy, term of abuse, Hallfred.
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f. pl. petty larceny of food, Parc. 44 (Ed., rendering of Fr. larencin, see foot-note); hinu þykki mér líkara at þat sé matvælar þeim er þar hokra at þjóna því, Mirm. 70. 2. mat-væli, n. pl., metaph. means of subsistence, stores of food, Fas. iii. 412, and so in mod. usage; matvæli þegar þverra fara, þau kenna Guði sultar stúr, Bb. 1. 7.
a. good for food.
adj. good for food, Bs. ii. 134.
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a, m. a lack of food, Gþl. 110.
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u. a jelly, meat or the like cooked into a thick gruel-like mess.
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að, to munch food, mumble; roðgúl harðan maula, Snót.
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m. a muncher (?), a nickname, Fms. x. 54.
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m. an ant-mound; sem þér í maura mornit haugi, Fas. i. 436 (in a verse).
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a, m. a money-poke, of a person.
(-s, -ar), m. ant, emmet.
m. [Dan. myre; Swed. myra; Gr. μύρμηξ; Serb. mraw]:—an ant; mý ok maura, Eluc. 62; einn lítll maðkr er maurr heitir, Sks. 50: in plur., metaph. money-bags, in a contemptuous sense.
COMPDS: maurahaugr, maurapúki.
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m., qs. maura-eldr, = maurildi; hér er líking milli mauru-elds ok náttúruligs loga, Skálda 197.
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n. [Dan. morild], a light from insects, decomposed matter, esp. in the sea; old form mauru-eldr, q. v.
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a, m. a nickname, Fms. ix. 28.
I) (má, máða, máðr), v.
1) to blot or rub out, efface (mást þeir of lífs bók);
2) to wear, make blunt (var ljár hans máðr upp í smiðreim).
II) from mega.
n. a bud (?); pálm-kvistir með fagri næfr ok nýju mái, Bs. ii. 16.
I) (má, máða, máðr), v.
1) to blot or rub out, efface (mást þeir of lífs bók);
2) to wear, make blunt (var ljár hans máðr upp í smiðreim).
II) from mega.
pres. mái; pret. máði; part. máðr; [the word seems to be identical with A. S. mawan, Engl. mow, Scot. maw, O. H. G. mahan, Germ. mähen; but if so, that sense has been lost]:—to blot out, wear out, by rubbing or the like; másk þeir af lífs-bók ok ritask eigi með réttlátum, Hom. 36; at hans nafn máisk af sínu húsi, Stj. 426; nú er nafn þitt á lifandi manna bók skráð ok mun þat aldregi af máaz (sic), 208; brauð myglað ok máð í gögnum, 367; eigi vitu vér nær hann vill þenna flekk má af virðingu sinni, Þorst. Stang. 51; af má lýti, H. E. i. 514; þá má þú mik af þeirri bók er þú skrifaðir, Stj. 313; and so freq. in mod. usage, það er máð, blotted ont, faint (cp. Germ. matt), of writing.
2. to wear, make blunt from use, of tools; var ljár hans máðr upp í smiðreim, Fb. i. 522; klokka máisk af optligum hringingum, Eluc. 147 (Ed.); máðar af fyrnsku, Lil. 94; meiðs kvistu má, to tear, Gm. 34.
II. metaph. to blot out, destroy; má af or af-má, at hann drepi þá ok mái þá af jörðunni, Stj. 312; Dróttinn hefir eytt ok af máð jörðunni alla þína úvini, 472; at hann hefir látið drepa ok má af jörðunni, 492; …
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Máf-hlíðingar, see már.
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n. strength, help derived from one’s mágar, Glúm. 334.
(-s, -ar), m. brother-, father-, or son-in-law (vill Hrútr gørast ~ þinn ok kaupa dóttur þína).
m. [Ulf. mêgs = γαμβρός; Scot. mac; O. H. G. mac; Dan. maag]:—a brother-, father-, son-in-law, etc.; hón bauð til sín frændum sínum ok mágum, she bade her kinsmen and mágar (brothers- and sons-in-law), Landn. 117; vill Rútr görask mágr þinn (son-in-law) ok kaupa dóttur þína, Nj. 3, as also Ísl. ii. 250, Eg. 37; cp. the saying, eigi má göra tvá mága at einni dóttur, Fas. iii. 59: ironically, Nj. 94, N. G. L. i. 358: of a father-in-law, Laban mág sinn, Stj. 172; Davíð tók konungdóm eptir Sál mág sinn, Rb. 382: in plur., skilmáli þeirra mága (father-in-law and son-in-law), Stj. 172, Fms. ix. 496; of brothers-in-law, en er þeir mágar finnask, Ó. H. 90; Ólafr mágr, 166.
COMPDS: mágsefni, mágastoð.
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n. a future son-in-law, Stj. 122, Ann. 1309.
f. sister-, mother-, or daughter-in-law.
n, f. a sister-, mother-, daughter-in-law, Fms. x. 94, Stj. 197: of a mother-in-law, Grág. i. 305.
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f. affinity, Grág. i. 33, Nj. 130, Fms. iii. 45, vi. 173, vii. 133.
I)
n.
1) speech, faculty of speech (þrøngdi svá sóttarfari konungs, at hann misti ~sins);
þau hafa ekki ~, they are dumb;
2) language, tongue;
norrønt ~, the Norse tongue;
3) speech, speaking (hvárt er Flosi svá nær, at hann megi heyra ~ mitt);
4) colloquy, talk, speech;
koma á ~ (or at ~i) við e-n, to come to talk with, speak to;
finna (hitta) e-n at ~i, to obtain speech with;
krefja e-n ~s, to ask an interview with;
leita mills við e-n (spyrja e-n ~s, mæla ~ of e-m), to broach a subject to one;
bera ~ á e-t, hafa e-t á (or at) ~i, to speak (talk) of (allir menn höfðu á ~i, hversu fríðr maðr hann var);
lúka sínu ~i, to end one’s speech;
þat er ~ manna, at, people say that;
5) tale, story;
nú er þar til ~s at taka, now it must be told;
6) saw, saying;
fornt (fornkveðit) ~ er, at, it is an old saw that;
7) diction, construction of sentences;
8) sentence;
tvau ~, two sentences;
fullt ~, a full period;
9) suit, action, cause;
hefja ~ á hendr e-m, to bring an action against one;
búa ~, to prepare a suit;
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1. n., old pl. ḿl, 673. 47, Greg.; [Ulf. maþl = ἀγορά; Hel. mahal = speech, meeting; Dan. maal; from the old Teut. maþl or mahal was formed the mid. Lat. mallum = parliament, public meeting (Du Cange), and mallum again was in Norman-French rendered by parliament.]
A. Speech, faculty of speech; mál heitir orð …, Edda 110; þau hafa ekki mál, they are dumb, Fms. i. 97, Fs. i. 250; þröngdi svá sóttar-fari konungs at hann misti málsins, x. 148; þeir hafa eigi manns rödd né mál, Rb. 348; þeir hafa gauð fyrir mál, 346; mál, heyrn, sjón, Edda 6.
II. speech as spoken, language, tongue; Norrænt mál, the Norse tongue, Fms. vii. 165; Gírskt mál, Greg. 75; í máli þeirra, til várs máls, in our tongue; í hverju máli, Skálda 161, 168; í vóru máli, 163, 166, 167, 169; í málinu, 165; kynnask várt mál at ráða þat er á Norrænu er ritað, Bs. i. 59; nema mál á Danska tungu, Grág.; rita at Norrænu máli, Hkr. (pref.); þeir skildu eigi hans mál, þá mælti kvinnan á Norrænu, Fs. 136.
2. speech, speaking; hvárt er Flosi svá nær at hann megi heyra mál mitt, Nj. …
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1. u, f. [mál = speech], a female acquaintance, female friend; kona heitir mála búanda sins, Edda (Ht.)
2. að, [from Germ. mahlen, Dan. male], to draw, paint, (mod.)
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f. a depicting, (mod.)
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a, m. a painter, (mod.); as also mál-verk, n. a picture.
n. iron (weapon) inlaid with ornaments (mál).
n. an iron (weapon) inlaid with mál, Fms. iii. 223, Fas. i. 414.
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m. food every meal, N. G. L. i. 8.
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f. milk every meal, morning and evening, Vm. 73, H. E. ii. 107.
n. an inlaid sword.
n. an inlaid sax (sword), Fas. i. 514.
n. inlaid spear.
n. an inlaid spear, Gísl. 11.
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m. = lyfsteinn (q. v.), Mag. 16 (vellum 580 B).
m. pl. parties to a suit; væri jafnir m. (if we were equally matched), mundi þess ei óhefnt.
part. pl. parties to a suit or match; ok væri jafnir málendr, mundi þess eigi úhefnt, if we were equally matched, if the parts were equal, Njarð. 378.
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að, to claim, Sks.; þér hafið málgat þá eign með rangyndum, D. N. i. 3; á-málga, q. v.
m.
1) contract, agreement;
2) wages, soldier’s pay; ganga á mála, to take service (with a foreign prince).
a, m. a friend, acquaintance, Edda (Gl.), Lex. Poët.
m.
1) contract, agreement;
2) wages, soldier’s pay; ganga á mála, to take service (with a foreign prince).
a, m. a contract, terms, agreement (= máldagi): fá þeim (i. e. the servants) slíkan stað ok mála sem þar var er bóndi andaðisk, Grág. i. 473; máli konu, a woman’s share, dowry, Gþl. 256; handsala mála, ef bóndi vill eigi halda mála við leigumann sinn …, en ef leigu-maðr vill eigi halda mála bónda, 512, 513.
II. a claim or title to an estate or property; hann átti mála á Mýralandi, Bs. i. 658; ef hann á mála á jörðu, en ef eigi er máli tekinn, … of maðr deyr ok hefir eigi innt mála sinn, N. G. L. i. 241: a title, claim, Grág. ii. 234; lög-máli, leign-máli (q. v.), lands-máli, skil-máli, a stipulation.
III. a soldier’s pay, service for hire; ganga á mála, to take service as a soldier with a foreign prince, Nj. 121; gjalda mála, MS. 4. 32; Aðalsteinn konungr gaf mála þeim mönnum öllum er þat vildu hafa til féfangs sér, Eg. 264; þeir (the Norsemen) höfðu þar þrjú hundruð sinna manna, þeirra er mála tóku af konungi, 266; gékk hann þar á mála með sína sveit, Fms. vi. 134; til hvers skal ek honum lengr þjóna er ek fær eigi mála minn falslausan, … fáit Halldóri mála sinn skíran, 245; hann (the king) var kallaðr hinn mildi ok hinn matar-ílli, þvíat hann gaf í mála mönnum sínum jafnmikla gull-penninga sem aðrir konungar silfr-penninga, en hann svelti menn at mat, i. …
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(acc. málgan), a. talkative, communicative, loquacious (þeir vóru málgir mjök, því at þeir voru úvitrir).
adj., in old writers contr. before a vowel, málgir, málgan, but mod. málugan, etc.:—talkative, communicative, ok sem hann var áðr m. varð hann þögull, Karl. 338; minnigr ok m., Hm. 102; hann (the boy) var brátt m. ok orðvíss, Eg. 147; verit eigi málgir í kirkju, be not talkative in church, Hom. (St.); en vér munum nú þess iðrask er vér várum of málgir, too rash in speaking, Hrafn. 9; þat er rétt at kennimenn görisk málgir (that they speak out) um þörf þeirra manna er þeir skulu varðveita, Hom. 35.
2. loquacious, chattering, in a bad sense, and so in mod. usage; konungr svarar heldr styggt, verþú svá m. sem þú vill en lát mik ná at þegja fyrir þér, Fms. vii. 119; þeir vóru málgir mjök því at þeir vóru úvitrir, Nj. 15; þeir görask dauða-druknir … málgir mjök ok kátir, Fms. xi. 109; druknir af miði, þeir vóru málgir, viii. 81:—as a nickname, Þórhalla in málga, Th. the chatterbox, Ld.
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adj. -spoken; in compds, glap-máll, hjá-máll, ein-máll.
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a, m. marble, = marmari (q. v.), Stj. 5, 75.
m.
1) ore (m., er járn skal of gera);
2) metal (þann málm, er gull heitir).
m. (prop. malmr); [Ulf. malma = ἄμμος; A. S. mealm, mealm-stân = sandstone; Hel. melm = pulvis; from mala = to grind; cp. Germ. zer-malmen]:—originally sand, as in the Goth. and A. S., but only remaining in local names, as Málm-haugar = Malmö in Sweden.
II. metal, Sks. 14, 162, Fms. v. 343, 344, x. 284, Rb. 318. Stj. 45, 508, Bs. i. 134, passim in old and mod. usage; in the earliest poets chiefly of gold, höfgan málm, the heavy metal, gold, Sighvat; skírr málmr, the bright metal. Akv.; málma fergir, a gold giver, a prince, Lex. Poët.; Gníta heiðar-m., gold, Edda; Rínar rauð-m., the red metal of the Rhine, gold, Bm.: of iron, weapons (?), þar er málmar brustu, Hallfred; Gota-m., the ore of the Goths. armour, Fas. i. 439 (in a verse); Húnlenzkr m., armour, weapons (?), Hornklofi; Vala-m., Welsh or foreign ore, treasures, Fas. iii. (in a verse): the battle is málma-skúr, -galdr, -hjaldr; as also málm-flaug, -dynr, -hríð, -regn, -róg, -þing, -þrima, = a clash of weapons: …
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n. a brasen gate, Sks. 631.
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a, m. a magical flame over hidden treasures, Maurer’s Volks., cp. vafur-logi.
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m. a brasen cauldron, Bs. i. 804.
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f. a vein of ore, Stj. 45.
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f. pl. = málsemd, Bs. i. 721: conversation, hann leitaði þeirra málsenda er hann vætti at konungi mundi bezt þykkja, Ó. H. 167; hón leitar marga vega málsenda við hana, Fas. i. 192.
m. = málsemd (leita málsenda við e-n).
a, m. = málsemd, Gísl. 11, Grág. ii. 147, Stj. 241; allir Guðs málsendar, id.
m. meal.
m. a ‘meal’s food,’ a meal. K. Á. 78, Eb. 36, Bs. i. 382.
adv. loquaciously.
adv. in a chattering manner, Stj. 16.
a. = máligr.
see máligr.
(= ‘málumgi’, dat. pl. from mál with negative -gi);
ef þyrftak at m. mat, if I needed no meat at meals.
[from mál = a meal, and the suffixed gi, see -gi C, p. 199, col. 2]: in the phrase, eiga m. mat, to live from hand to mouth, Hm.; cp. mod. eiga ekki m. matar, to starve.
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m. a ‘speech-mate,’ friend, Haustl.
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n. the ‘talk-bone,’ one of the bones in the head, Ísl. Þjóðs. ii. 547; láta málbeinið ganga, to chatter glibly.
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f. = lesbók (q. v.), or a book with drawings (?), D. I. i. 256.
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f. an excuse; göra e-ð sér til málbótar.
m.
1) covenant, agreement; inna máldaga, to fulfil an agreement;
2) written deed, document (of the rights, property, and inventories of churches).
a, m. a covenant, agreement; at því skal virða sem máldagar vóru með þeim, Grág. i. 155; fá slíkan stað ok máldaga þeim griðmönnum, er áðr vóru teknir, sem þeir áttu sér mæltan, 154; inna máldaga, to fulfil the agreements, ii. 267, 366; ek vil setja hér til máldaga með okkr, Fms. i. 261, Orkn. 52; eptir réttum siðum ok fornum máldögum, Fms. i. 257, v. l.; göra máldaga við e-n, K. Þ. K. 56; sá mádagi á at haldask, id.; hann görði þann máldaga of fé sitt, of a bequest, Mar.
2. a written deed, chartulary, esp. of the rights, property, and inventories of churches, kirkju-máldagi; the old eccl. law made it incumbent on the church-lord or churchwarden to put on parchment any gift or emolument made to the church by private donors; this deed (máldagi) might then for authorisation and publication be brought into parliament to be read in the Lögrétta or from the Law-hill. It had also to be read at home once a twelvemonth at church when there were many worshippers present, see K. Þ. K. 46 (ch. 10), K. Á. 190, Bs. i. 778. A specimen of such an original scroll with successive entries in different hands is the Reykjaholts-máldagi (the deed of Reykholt, dating from the time of Snorri the historian). …
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n., e-m er ~ á e-u, it is of importance to one.
n., in the phrase, e-m er máldeili á e-u, to be of importance, Fms. vi. 379.
a., free-spoken.
adj. free-spoken, out-spoken, Ó. H. 55, 59.
f. a measure of drink served for each meal.
n, f. ‘meal-drink,’ a measure of drink served for each meal; með sæmiligum kosti ok máldrykkju annat-hvárt mjöð eðr mungát, Bs. i. 848; var þat bæði vetr ok sumar, at þar var m. at dögurðar-borði, en at náttverði var úmælt drukkit, Ó. H. 29; máldrykkju-skálar, pint-cups, to measure out drink, Fms. iii. 191.
n. circumstances of a case; gott ~, a just case.
n. the circumstance of a case; gott m., a just case, Rétt. 52, freq. in mod. usage.
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m. a ‘meal-fire,’ Nj. 15, Eb. 120, 276; see eldr II.
(acc. -fán), a. poet. inlaid with ornaments, adorned with characters (of a sword).
adj. ornamented with mál (q. v.), of a sword, Skm. 23, Skv. 3. 4.
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a, m. [mál = measure], a pacer, of a horse, Fms. ii. 205 (in a verse), Edda (Gl.)
f. ease in speech.
f. ease in speech, Bret. 148.
adv. eloquently.
adj. speaking with ease, Hom.
a. talkative.
adj. light-spoken. Fms. iii. 8, v. l.
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f. = málfimi, Leiðarv. 34.
a. out-spoken.
adj. out-spoken: superl. fem. málfrömust, Fas. iii. 8.
m. peace from suits (?).
m. a temporary peace; þá var m. með þeim, Grett. 124, Bs. ii. 147; mod. stundar-friðr.
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f. the science of language, grammar, (mod.)
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m. a philologer.
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m. an interview, Nj. 121, v. l.
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f. ‘sentence-filling,’ gramm. name for a particle or enclitic, Edda 121, (see Aarb. for Nord. Oldk. 1868, p. 353 sqq.)
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n. speech, voice, as also style of a written speech.
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adj. able to apeak, O. H. L. 71.
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n. pl. the speech organs, Bs. i. 372, Leiðarv. 2.
a. tongue-tied.
adj. ‘speech-halt,’ tongue-tied, Fbr. 90 new Ed.
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f. the being málhaltr, Hom. 14.
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better málreifr, q. v.
a. well enough to speak.
adj. ‘speech-hale,’ well enough to speak, Eb. 240, Fms. x. 148 (of a sick person).
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n. adj. dangerous; e-m er m., one’s affairs are in danger, H. E. i, 249.
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n. a liquid measure; tvau málkeröld lýsis, Vm. 172.
m. pl. pettifoggery, sophistry.
m. pl. pettifoggery, sophistry, Barl. 143, Clem. 59, Mar. 1028, Clar.
a. knowing one another to speak to.
adj. knowing one another to speak to, acquainted, Fms. ii. 71, Ó. H. 55, Fms. iv. 174.
a. knowing one another to speak to.
adj. = málkunnigr, Ó. H. 74, Ld. 90, Fms. vi. 378.
m. defect of the speech organs.
a, m. a defect, of the speech organs; var mikill m. á ráði hennar, hón hafði ekki mál, ok var með því alin, Fb. i. 250.
a. slovenly in speaking.
adj. slovenly in speaking; hón var ekki til mállöt (she was a gossip) ok sagði þeim til mart, Bjarn. 60, Mork. 38.
a. speechless, dumb.
adj. speechless, of a sick person: dumb, daufr ok m., Ld. 34, Stj. 261, Fb. i. 251, ii. 382, MS. 625, 85.
f. incorrect expression, bad grammar.
u, f. a sentence which has no meaning; það er m., ‘tis no sense, of bad grammar or the like: of bad rhyme, gröm skömm … hrömm skömm, þat væri jafnhátt, en hitt er m., Fms. vi. 386.
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n., medic. dumbness, Fél.
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a, m. a dumb, speechless person: as also in the allit. phrase, menn ok málleysingar, both men and dumb creatures.
f. idiom, dialect.
u, f. idiom, language; nemdu allar mállýzkur, en þó enn allra helzt Látínu ok Völsku, Sks. 23 B; kalla þeir þann málm rauða eptir mállýzku sinni, 162.
f. milch trine.
u, f. [mál = time], milch kine; ef hann er-at landeigandi ok hefr-at málnytu, Grág. i. 158; ef maðr lætr mólka málnytu annars manns vísvitandi, ii. 309; at málnytu verði hagfátt, Fms. vi. 103; reka málnytu sína, K. Þ. K. 82. málnytu-kúgildi, -kýr, -kýrlag, n. milch cattle, Jb. 360, H. E. i. 395, 494.
a. yielding milk, milch; ~ smali, milch cattle.
adj. yielding milk; málnytr smali, Grág. i. 158, 476.
a. using violent language.
adj. jabbering in bad or violent language, Ó. H. 115, Eg. 338, Ölk. 34, Boll. 336, Grett. 91.
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f. a rumour come abroad; var þat á m. komit, Hom. 115.
a. talkative, cheerful.
adj. talkative, cheerful, Ld. 320.
a. = málrœtinn.
and mál-rœtinn, adj. talkative, open; Egill var við hann m., Eg. 573; kátr ok málrøtinn, Ó. H. 70; var konungr við hann málrøtinn ok spurði tíðenda af Íslandi, 55; málrtinn í kyrrð, ok blíðmæltr, Hkr. iii. 179; málreitinn. Fms. iv. 165, vi. 438.
n. ability to talk.
n. big talk, Skálda 164; þit erut menn grunnsæir, ok meir gefit málróf (málhróf Ed.) en vitsmunir, Bjarn. 39. málrófs-maðr, m. a glib talker, Skálda 164.
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m. the ring of the voice; eg þekki hann á málrómnum.
n. time to speak in.
n. room for speaking, time for speaking, Skv. 3. 68.
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f. pl. ‘speech-runes,’ as. opp. to spell-runes, the alphabet; þessi er upphaf allra hátta sem málrúnar eru fyrir öðrum rúnum, Edda 121:—a spell enabling one to speak, Gkv. 1. 23, Sdm. 12.
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u, f. conversation, Fb. ii. 386.
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adj. = málrætinn, Fb. ii. 85.
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adj. = málreitinn (q. v.), Ó. H. 55, 70, Þiðr. 174.
f. language, speech.
f. language; Þórði líkaði ílla hennar málsemdir, Bjarn. 68; finnask mönnum orð um lið þeirra ok um málsemd (speech, eloquence) Þorgríms ok um skörungskap hans, Gísl. 93, (málsenda, q. v., 11, l. c.)
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n. loquacity, Grett. (in a verse).
n. pl.
1) business, transactions;
2) importance.
n. pl. business, transactions, Fms. ii. 37, xi. 282, Stj. 579: importance (= máldeili), Magn. 444, Band. 35 new Ed.
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u, f. a bucket holding a certain measure, Hom. (St.)
f. eloquence, oratory.
f. eloquence, oratory, Clem. 33, MS. 623. 30, Edda 17, Skálda 199, Fms. ii. 242. málsnildar-list, f. rhetoric, Skálda 192.
f. eloquence.
f. = málsnild, Sturl. iii. 197, Sks. 92, Bs. i. 82.
a. eloquent.
adj. eloquent, Nj. 229, Fms. i. 31, vii. 233, Róm. 324.
a. wise-spoken.
adj. wise-spoken, Fms. i. 190: a nickname, Fb. iii.
f. wisdom in speech.
f. = málspekt, Sks. 308.
f. wisdom in speech.
f. wisdom in speech, 625. 176.
m. case, point of a question.
m. a case, point of a question; mikill m. er þetta (it is a grave case) sem þú vekr upp, Fas. i. 77; hann setr þvert nei fyrir málstaðinn, segja hana ljúga …, Karl. 552; þóat ér finnit á því sanna málstaði, Hom. (St.): in mod. usage, eiga góðan, íllan málstað, to have a good, bad cause.
m.
1) letter of the alphabet;
2) consonant.
m. a letter of the alphabet; rúnar heita málstafir. Runes that are letters, Skálda 163 (Thorodd): a consonant, opp. to hljóðstafr, a vowel, Skálda 170, 172 (the second grammarian).
f. parley, conference.
u, f. a parley, council, conference, Orkn. 52, Ó. H. 43, Sks. 274; vera á tali ok málstefnu, Fms. i. 52; á málstefnu ok ráðagörðum, vii. 282.
f. sleeting-hall, public hall, esp. in houses of men of rank.
u, f. a ‘speech-hall,’ meeting hall, public hall, esp. in houses of men of rank, of a king’s hall, Fms. vi. 280, 281, ix. 476, Eg. 95; cp. þar var mikil stofa er konungr átti í hirðstefnur, málstefnur, ok sættar-stefnur, Ó. H. 43: of lagman Thorgny, 66: of a bishop, Bs. i. 869, Munk. 40, D. N. iv. 54, 117: of a convent, Dipl. iii. 10. In mod. usage the Engl. House of Parliament is often rendered by málstofa.
m. proper sleep.
m. ‘meal-sleep,’ due sleep, Sturl. iii. 197.
f. evidence, reason.
f. evidence, argument, reason, Greg. 43.
n. diction.
n. diction; hvert m. er haft til skáldskapar? Edda 49: a phrase, hér eru ok önnur máltök þau er til máls skal taka, 127; leiðir í því orði m. af fyrra vísu-helmingi, the last word from the preceding verse. 131: a phrase, saying, Pass. 8. 12.
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n. boarding of timber, N. G. L. iii. 219.
f. meal.
f. [Germ. mahlzeit; Dan. maaltid], ‘meal-tide,’ a meal, Fms. ix. 520, xi. 444, Bs. i. 848, 867, 909. máltíðar-stund, f. meal-time, Bs. i. 884.
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n. pl. the organs of speech, Geisli 19.
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a, m. grief, sorrow, Fas. i. 197.
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ð, to make sure, N. G. L. i. 211.
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n. a phrase, = máltak.
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u, f. a female friend, Skálda (in a verse).
m. friend (to speak with).
m. a friend, acquaintance, MS. 4. 6, Vígl. (in a verse), Gs. 8, Gkv. 1. 20, Km. 20.
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m. a sword, Edda (Gl.)
m. measuring wand.
m. a measuring wand, yard measure, Korm. 8.
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n. an interview, Fas. ii. (in a verse).
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m. the servant of speech = the tongue, Ad. 24.
a. wanting to speak.
adj. wanting to speak, Sturl. i. 154.
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adj. affable, 655 xx. B. 3.
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f. = málsþörf, Fms. vi. 374.
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n. much talking.
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f. a month’s ‘bait’ or pasture, Dipl. v. 15.
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m. the day of the (Julian) month, Ann. 1393.
n. a month’s notice.
n. a month’s notice, Fas. iii. 649.
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u, f., or -matr, m. a month’s rate, a Norse law term referring to the value of estates, an estate being valued at so and so many months’ mata, see mata, N. G. L., B. K., D. N. passim.
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m. for a month’s pasture, Dipl. v. 28.
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f. a month’s rest, Þorst. St. 55.
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u, f. a summons with a month’s notice, Jb. 26 A.
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n. a ‘month’s tale,’ computation of a month, Rb. 488.
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a, m. the space of a month.
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n. pl. the time when one month ends and another begins; um mánaðar-mótið, Fb. iii. 454, where sing.
m. Monday.
m. Monday (now proncd. Mánu-dagr), Orkn. (in a verse), Fms. vii. 68, ix. 29, passim.
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f. Monday night.
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n. moonshine, Al. 174.
m., poet. moon.
a. m. [Ulf. mêna; A. S. môna; Engl. moon; O. H. G. mâno; Dan. maane; Swed. måne; in Germ. the primitive word has been replaced by the derivative ‘mond,’ which properly means a moon-period, month]:—the moon; the word, however, is scarcely used in prose, old or mod., but is poetical or can only be used in certain phrases, for tungl is the common word, Vsp. 5, Alm. 14, 15, Hm. 138, Vþm. 22, Anal. 177; skarðr máni, the crescent moon, Vkv. 6: mythol. the Moon (Máni) was brother to the Sun (Sól), and both were the children of the giant Mundilföri (a name evidently referring to the rotation of the heavens), Edda 7, Vþm. 23. For the legend of the two men in the moon with a bucket and pole on their shoulders see Edda 7, 220 (in a verse): urðar-múni, a weird moon, an apparition, Fb. 270: poët. phrases, mána rann, the moon’s dwelling = the sky, Skálda (in a verse); mána-vegr, the moon’s way = the sky, Haustl.; mána-fold, id.; mána-salr, Hkv. 1: brá-máni, enni-máni, the brow moon = the eye, Ad.: a nickname, as also a pr. name, Landn.
II. in local names, Mán-á, Mána-berg, Mána-fell, Mána-þúfa, Landn. …
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and mánaðr, m., mónoðr with umlaut, Íb. 376; gen. mánaðar, nom. acc. pl. mánuðr (like vetr); mod. mánuðir, acc. mánuði, which form occurs in vellums of the 15th century; thus, mánaði (acc. pl.), Bs. i. 825, 896; even mánuðu (acc. pl.), 837, Fb. i. 205: [from máni: cp. Ulf. mênoþs; A. S. mônað; Old Engl. moneth; Engl. month; O. H. G. mânod; Germ. monat; Dan. maaned; Swed. månad; Lat. mensis; Gr. μήν]:—a month; á mánaði, for a month, Hm. 73; mánuðr níu, Rm. 6, 18, 30, Hom. 127; mónoðr tólf þritög-náttar, Jb. 376; þrjá mánaðr þrjátigu nátta, K. Þ. K. 164, Fms. ix. 239; aðra tvá mánoðr, Grág. ii. 261; tveir mánaðr, i. 420; sjau mánaðr, fimm mánaðr, ii. 393: tólf mánuðr, a twelvemonth, year; á hverjum tólf mánuðum, every twelvemonth, Hom. 149; ok hann hefir tólf mánuðr at gjöldum eðr handsölum, Grág. i. 196; halda þær tólf mánaðr þaðan frá er kona var föstnuð, 378; hvárt þat var af hinum tuttugustum tólf mánuðum, the twentieth year, Grett. 173 new Ed.; kaupa þeir nú enn saman um tólf mánuðr, Fb. ii. 124. The old heathen year consisted of twelve months, each of thirty days, so that a pentad (fimmt) added to that number made the year complete. …
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(gen. más, pl. mávar), m. seamew; ben-, gunnmár, raven (poet.).
m., in the latter part of pr. names, Bjart-már, Hreið-már, Gran-már; it is derived from mærr, famous, O. H. G. mâri, and formed at a time when the umlaut had not as yet taken place.
(gen. más, pl. mávar), m. seamew; ben-, gunnmár, raven (poet.).
m., gen. más, dat. mávi or máfi, pl. mávar; in mod. usage sounded in nom. erroneously máfr, gen. máfs; [A. S. meaw; Engl. mew; Germ. möve; Dan. maage]:—a sea-mew, gull (larus), Edda (Gl.), freq. in mod. usage; see also Lex. Poët., where the word freq. occurs; hvít-máfr, the common gull; grá-máfr, the grey gull, larus glaucus: in poetry the sea is máva-röst; má-grund, má-ferill, má-skeið, the land, road of the sea-mews, Lex. Poët.: crows are ben-már, blóð-már; the raven is Yggjar-már, Odin’s mew, and so on.
II. as a pr. name, Landn.: in local names, Máfa-hlíð, whence Máf-hlíðingar, the men of M.; Máfhlíðinga-vísur, the verses of the men of M., Edda (Ht.): más-ungi (proncd. máfs-ungi); also má-skari (q. v.)
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(mod. María), u, f. Mary, in old writers sounded with an á, see old rhymes, e. g. Lilja, passim; and is still sounded so in Márí-atla (= Máríu-erla), the wagtail, motacilla alba. Several flowers bear the Virgin Mary’s name, Máríu-stakkr, m. the common lady’s mantle, alchemilla vulgaris; Máríu-grös, n. pl. lichen nivalis; Máríu-vöndr, m. ‘Marys-wand,’ the field gentian, gentiana campestris; Máríu-kjarni, a, m. laver, fucus esculentus, see Maurer’s Volks. 194, 195. Other COMPDS: Máríukirkja, Máríumessa, Máríuminni, MáríuSaga, Máríuskript, Máríusúð, Máríuvers.
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n. Mary-church, Fms.
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see messa.
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n. a hymn to the Virgin Mary; til þess er borð vóru upptekin ok Máríuminni var sungit, Fms. x. 19.
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u, f. the Virgin Mary’s Saga, Vm. 6.
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f. a tablet of the Virgin Mary, Dipl. i. 10, Vm. 6, 22, 27, 69, Pm. 14.
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f. the name of a ship, Fms. viii. 199.
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n. ‘Mary’s-verse’ = the Ave Maria, Bs. i. 500.
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að, to heave or pant, Lat. anhelare. of a horse; nær vissuð þér svá heimskan hest | hann mundi fyrir sverja | nær hann fram knúinn másar mest | menn séu til sem berja, Jón Þorl.
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a, m. a nickname, Fms. vii. 239, see preceding word; prop. the name ot a bird; in Faroe maasi is a sea-mew; val-maasi, Uislands-maasi (= an Icelandic mew), fiski-maasi, see Mr. H.C. Müller’s Færoernes Fugle-fauna (1863).
n. check-mate.
1. n. [meta], moderation, Pass. 30. 13.
2. n. check-mate, Vígl. 31, Fas. i. 443, Mag.: various kinds of mate are peð-mát, gleiðar-mát, fretsterts-mát, hróks-mát, heima-mát.
f. provender, mess (rare).
að, to check-mate, in chess.
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n. [for. word], a measure, Stj., H. E. i. 476.
m. manner, way, respect (í engan máta; á allan máta).
a, m. [Dan. maade; early Dan. måte; from meta]:—manner, way; í engan máta, in no way, Vígl. 21; í þann máta, thus, Bret. 108; í allan máta, in every way, Fs. 15. máta-legr, adj. (-lega, adv.), see mátulegr.
(acc. máttkan), a. mighty.
adj., in old poets contr. before a vowel, and changing the g into k, máttkar, máttkan, máttkir; compar. máttkari, máttkastr, mod. máttugri, máttugastr; [Ulf. mahetteigs = δυνατός; Engl. mighty; Germ. mächtig]:—mighty; máttkar meyjar, Gs. 1; sá inn máttki munr, Hm. 93; máttkan moldþinur, Vsp. 59; með máttkom Kristi, Lex. Poët.; fjögur konunga-ríki hafa máttkust verit, Ver. 35:—able, máttugr afspring at geta, Stj. 26: al-máttugr, almighty; ú-máttugr, weak; á-máttigr, q. v. (p. 43, col. 2), perhaps, however, these words are rather akin to Ulf. anamahtjan = βιάζειν, and thus to mean overbearing, and then = hideous, horrible, as an epithet of trolls and giants.
(gen. máttar, dat. mætti), m.
1) might, strength; var mér alls máttar (I had to use all my strength) áðr ek kom henni upp;
2) strength, health; reiðuliga svaraði hón, of nökkurr spurði at mætti hennar, if any one asked how she was; er at leið mætti hans, when he began to sink.
m., máttar, dat. mætti, pl. mættir; [Ulf. mahts = δύναμις; A. S. meaht; Engl. might; O. H. G. maht; Germ. macht; Dan. magt]:—might, strength: allit., trúa á mátt sinn ok megin, Fms. i. 35: er at þessu orðinn svá mikill m. (it has come to such a pitch) at hér eru við vafðir margir ríkis-menn, Fms. xi. 264; ok allir mættir hræðask, 623. 26: value, Skálda 175, 176; var mér alls máttar (I had to use might and main) áðr ek kom henni upp, Fms. iii. 74.
II. strength, health; ílla ertú leikinn, sé ek at eigi er máttrinn mikill, Fb. ii. 388; jarl hafði fengit harða sótt ok kölluðu hættligan mátt hans, Fms. ix. 390; hann hefir mál sitt, en þó máttr sem minnstr, xi. 102; hón spurði hversu þá skyldi mætti manns komit vera er heita skal fyrir manni, Bs. i. 69; en þóat máttrinn þyrri mjök, 175; ek lá fyrr í sótt með litlum mætti oleaðr, 110; síðan fór hann heim með litlum mætti, 144; er at leið mætti hans, when he began to sink, Fms. viii. 258; hón svaraði reiðuliga ef nokkurr spurði at mætti hennar, Ld. 14; hón leiddi mjök at fréttir um mátt Halldóru, Sturl. i. 200; cp. van-máttr, weakness. …
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adv. mightily, immensely, Stj. 383, v. l.
a.
1) possible (honum er alt máttuligt);
2) mighty.
adj. mighty, Th. 26: within one’s power, honum er allt þat máttulegt er menninir megu eigi, N. G. L. iii. 242.
pp. weak, exhausted, faint.
part. weak, exhausted, Fær. 42, Fms. ii. 98.
pp. weak, exhausted, faint.
adj. faint, weak, Fms. ii. 270.
a. without strength, exhausted.
adj. without strength, exhausted, Fbr. 160.
n. weakness, lack of strength.
n. weakness, lack of strength, debility, Fms. vii. 150.
a. of little strength, weak (hann gerist all~).
adj. of little strength, feeble, and of a sick person, exhausted, faint, Fms. i. 159, xi. 288, Eg. 567.
a. meet, fitting.
adj. [máti], meet, fitting, Stj. 55, 97; meir en þér þykkir mátulegt, Fb. ii. 196; sveigja slíkt sem honum þótti mátulegt vera, Bs. i. 727; mátulegan (moderate) skatt, Fms. x. 113, v. l.; sá er þetta rúm var mátulegt, Fs. 5; ú-mátuliga, immensely, 383: fitting, of a suit, hann fór í serkinn ok var hann honum m., Fms. iii. 180; máttulegt beisl, Gd. 34: meet, due, það er honum mátuligt, it serves him right.
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a, m. a young sea-mew; sköllóttan mann ok hvítan sem máskara, Fms. xi. 155.
prep. with dat. and acc.
I. with dat.
1) with, along with, together with (Unnr dóttir hans fór með honum; hón hafði á skipi m. sér sex tigi karla);
2) denoting help, assistance; leggja til m. e-m, to help one by word or deed; to give one advice; fá menn m. sér, to get followers;
3) by means of, with (verja sik með sverðum, skjöldum);
4) by, through, with, using (með harðfengi ok kappi); m. hlaupi, by running; m. einum bug, with one mind; m. sama hætti, in the same way;
5) including, inclusive of (hundrað manna m. nábúum); ok þat m., at, and besides (therewith) that; þann dag ok nóttina m., and the night too;
6) among, between (var fact um m. þeim brœðrum); þreyta e-t m. sér, to fight it out among themselves; koma m. e-m, to come among (maðr, er m. mörgum kemr);
7) denoting inward quality, in (hann hafði alla þá hluti m. sér, er konung prýða);
8) along (landit er viðast bygt með sjónum); esp. of direction, with an adv. denoting the direction (upp ~, ofan ~, fram ~, inn ~, út ~, etc.); m. stöfnum, from stem to stern, all along the ship; biðja matar með bœjum, from house to house; …
prep., also meðr, a form common in Stj. and in legendary writers, but not in the classical writers or in mod. speech or writing; [Ulf. meþ = σύν and μετά; A. S. and Chaucer, mid; it remains in Engl. only in ‘mid-wife,’ qs. ‘with-wife,’ cp. Icel. náveru-kona, nær-kona, yfirsetu-kona; Germ. mit; Dan. med; Gr. μετά]:—with, along with, a prep. with dat. and acc.; with dat. it has the notion of coming or going in company, with acc. of bringing or fetching; thus, hann kom með honum, he came along with, in company with him; but hann kom með hann, he brought him wilh him.
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With, along with, together with; Þórólfr var með konungi, Eg. 29; hann var þar með Otkatli, Nj. 73; hann kvaddi hann til ferðar með sér, id.; hann stóð upp ok Kolskeggr með honum, 58; með honum var sá maðr Íslenzkr er …, 157; hann fór útan með honum, Eg. 196: Unnr dóttir hans fór með honum, Ld. 4; fara á fjall með húskörlum, Korm. 10; vera með goða, i. e. to be in his jurisdiction, Grág. i. 108; hón hafði á skipi með sér sextigi karla, i. e. with her, under her command, Landn. 109; brott með sér, Nj. …
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(á m., í m.), prep. with gen., among, between; m. vár or vár á m., among us; sat þar Þórhalla m. brúða, Th. sat between the brides; ellipt., ganga ~, í m., to intercede as peacemaker (gekk þá Njáll í m., svá at hvárir handsöluðu ödrum grið).
n., pl. meðöl, [Germ. mittel; Dan. middel], means, medicine.
(á m., í m.), prep. with gen., among, between; m. vár or vár á m., among us; sat þar Þórhalla m. brúða, Th. sat between the brides; ellipt., ganga ~, í m., to intercede as peacemaker (gekk þá Njáll í m., svá at hvárir handsöluðu ödrum grið).
adv. with gen., and á meðal, í meðal:—among, between; á meðal vár, or vár á meðal, among us; á meðal okkar (dual), Bkv. 19; hann settisk niðr á meðal þeirra, Nj. 48; sat þá Þorgerðr meðal brúða, 51; meðal þín ok annarra, 85; meðal Hafrafells ok Króksfjarðar-múla, Gullþ. 3; sumir verða sendir landa meðal, from one land to another, Sks. 54; á meðal anna, Grág. ii. 261; á meðal enna tveggja sömu samhljóða, á meðal enna líkustu greina, Skálda 162: ellipt., mál öll er meðal fóru, Vsp. 30; fannsk þat ekki í tali at þar hefði missætti verit í meðal, Nj. 48; þá gékk Njáll í meðal, N. interceded as peacemaker, 105.
II. metaph., at hann vili nema litla skynsemd heldr enn önga þá er á meðal verðr ennar meiri (= meðal anna?), i. e. when there is a little leisure from graver matters, Skálda 169 (Thorodd); þat er áðr stendr á meðal ykkar má!s, whatsoever is unsettled between you, Fms. xi. 21.
B. In a great many compds, denoting what is intermediate, between, in the middle, the average; or ironically, not over-much, middling; or, lastly, with a negative in the reverse sense, see the following:
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n. average; þat var með enu betra ~i, a good average; í ~i, ~i, not very, not over well (segir mér þó í ~i hugr um); ~i góðgjarn, not too benevolent; skipti vár hafa verið sum góð, en sum til ~s, our dealings have been, some good, some only middling.
n. an equal share; at meðallagi, in equal shares, Grág. ii. 261; mitt skap er ekki betra en til meðallags, my temper is not better than the average, Þiðr. 319; þat var með enu betra meðallagi, a good average, Fs. 3; ekki stærri en í góðu meðallagi, fully average height, Bárð. 175.
II. middling’, i. e. not very, not over well; meðallagi er þér þat ráðligt, ‘tis not very advisable for thee, Fms. ii. 14; vitr kona ok meðallagi vinsæl, Fb. i. 250; segir mér þó í meðallagi hugr um, Fs. 47; í meðallagi er oss fallit, 34, 87; var hón óðmáli ok m. vitr, Ísl. ii. 318; skipti vár hafa verit sum góð en sum til meðallags, our dealings have been some good, some only middling, Fms. ix. 508, v. l.; Þorvarðr var vitr maðr ok þá gamall, meðallagi góðgjarn, not too benevolent, Glúm. 376.
(á m.), adv.
1) in the mean time, meanwhile (hann bað þá þar dveljast m.); m. at, m. er (es), as long as, while, whilst;
2) so long as = m. er (hélzt hann í vináttu við konung m. hann lifði).
adv., and á-meðan, whilst; meðan missætti var þeirra í milli, Fms. vi. 27; meðan um sök þá er dæmt, Grág. i. 78; meðan Högni lifði, Am. 67; meðan okkat fjör lifir, Skm. 20; meðan öld lifir, Vsp. 16; er sér á lof ok vit m. lifir, Hm. 9; meðan þú lifir, 121; meðan hann væri útan, Nj. 4; meðan ek em í brautu, 40; meðan í önd hixti, Am. 39; hélzk hann í vináttu við konung meðan hann lifði, Ó. H. 12; ok hélzk þeirra vingan meðan þeir lifðu báðir, Bs. i. 24; enda er rétt at beiða dóms út meðan eigi er upp sagt misseris-tal, Grág. ii. 93:—with subj., meðan þeir lifði báðir, Fms. vi. 27; friðr skyldi haldask meðan nokkurr þeirra væri á lífi, 28.
2. as long as (all along), whilst, in this case a relative pronoun (er, es, at) is understood—meðan er or meðan’s, whence the mod. Dan. medens, in mod. usage meðan að; this particle is, however, left out, and the sentence is elliptical; but in mod. usage Icel. say, meðan að eg er í burtu, whilst I am away, Dan. medens jeg er borte.
II. in the meantime; ok verðr sú dvöl at hann myndi fara meðan ördrag eða lengra, Grág. ii. 110; þegi herr meðan! Eb. (in a verse); hlýði mér meðan, listen to me the while i. …
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u, f. a kind of head-gear, Edda (Gl.) ii. 494.
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f. compassion, Vídal. passim, meðaumkunar-samr adj. compassionate, Fas. iii. 644.
f.
1) management; vandhœfi mun þér þykkja á ~inni, you will find it difficult to manage;
2) hafa e-t ~ar, to have along with one, in one’s keeping;
3) behaviour, conduct; var konungi þá kunnigt hverja ~ ek hafða, how I behaved.
f. management; vandhæfi mun þér þykkja á meðferðinni Korm. 82; góðr meðferðar, easy to manage, Landn. 94, v. l.; til meðferðar, to manage, Fms. i. 256; veita e-m e-t til meðferðar, to give it into one’s keeping, Dipl. v. 24; þau kúgildi sem hann reiknaði í sinni meðferð, which he had in his keeping, iii. 13; hafa sök at meðferð, to have a case to manage, Grág. ii. 41; var konungi þá kunnigt hverja m. ek hafða, how I did behave, Eg. 65, Barl. 90, 105; hafa meðferðar, to have about oneself, in one’s keeping, Mar., Bs. i. 715, 866.
n. = meðferð.
n. = meðferð, Th. 77, Karl. 216; hafa meðferðis = hafa meðferðar.
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n. in phrases such as, kylfuna þó hón sé ekki fimligt m., the club, though it be not handy to carry, Fas. iii. 449; það er ekki mitt m., ‘tis beyond my strength.
f. = meðferð.
f. = meðferð, Landn. 94, Hom. 108, Grág. i. 165, 166, 443, Nj. 87.
2. in the phrase ‘skógar-gang varðar meðförin sem verkinn’ meðför means the spreading, carrying abroad of a libellous song; cp. fara (A. III. 4. β).
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1. gékk, to confess, (mod.)
2. u, f., in meðgöngu-tími, a, m. the time of ‘going with child:
m. siding with, helping, = fylgi.
m. siding with, helping, Fms. ii. 210:—prosperity.
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f. a fee paid for alimentation, = fúlga, q. v.
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n. favour, partiality.
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f. a helpmate.
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a, m. the helping clerk in church.
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d, to confess, Sks. 615: með-kenning, f. confession.
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n. prosperity, good luck, Fas. iii. 594, passim in mod. usage; opp. to mótlæti.
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n. the speaking a good word for one.
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f. a riding with another person. meðreiðar-maðr, m. an attendant on a traveller on horseback.
f. reception.
1. tók, to receive, accept.
2. u, f. reception, meðtöku-maðr, m. a receiver, Bs. i. 882.
f. reception.
f. = meðtaka, Bs. ii. 119.
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adj. acceptable, Mar.
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f. sense, consciousness.
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i. e. mæ-fingr, adj. slim-fingered, Hðm.; see mjór.
(má, mátta, mátt), v.
1) to be able to do, with acc.; eigi eru Asynjur úhelgari ok eigi megu þær minna, they are not less powerful; svá at vér mættim ekki, so that we could do nothing; m. betr, to be the stronger; m. við e-m, to be able to withstand one (hann mun ekki m. einn við mörgum); skulu mikit þín orð m. við mik, thy words shall have much weight with me;
2) of health; m. vel, to be well; m. lítt, illa, to be poorly (hann spurpi, hversu hann mætti. — Eigi má ek nú vel, sagði hann); m. e-m, to do for one (má yðr þat, er yfir margan gengr);
3) with infin., to be able; mátt þú sjá hana, ef þú vill, thou canst see her, if thou wilt; hann mátti ekki mæla, he could say nothing;
4) to be permitted, allowed (hann mátti aldri tala til Kjartans, svá at Þorkell var hjá); nú man eigi m. sitjanda hlut í eiga, one must not remain sitting, be inactive;
5) ellipt., the verb being understood (lemja man ek bogann, ef ek má); ferr þat sem má, go that as it may; má, at, it is possible that; þeir spurðu hversu þat mætti, how that could be.
pres. in a pret. form má, mátt, má; plur. megum, megut, megu, later and mod. megit, mega; pret. mátti; subj. pres. megi, pret. mætti; part. mátt; with suff. má’k = má ek, Og. 33; mætta’k = mætta ek, Þkv. 3; máttú = mátt-þú, passim: with neg. suff. pres. 1st pers. má’k-a, I cannot, Stor. 18; má’k-at ek, Am. 12; má’k-a’k, 52; má’kk-at-ek, Hallfred (Fs. 107): pret. mátti’g-a’k, I could not, Og. 32: [Ulf. magan = δύνασθαι; A. S. magan; Engl. may, might; Germ. mögen; Dan. maae.]
B. To have strength to do, avail; svá at vér mættim ekki, so that we availed not, Am. 17; mega betr, to be the stronger, Karl. 423; allt má þó nauðigr skyldi, a saying, i. e. necessity is a great schoolmaster, Sturl. iii. 255; eigi megu þær minna, they are not less powerful, Edda 13; hverr er sá Guð, eða hvat má hann? 2: with dat., mega við e-m, to be able to withstand one; hann mun ekki mega einn við mörgum, Art. 22; ekki má við marginum, none can withstand the many, Fms. xi. 278; mega sér, var honum haldit til vinnu þegar er hann mátti sér nokkut, as soon as he grew strong, had any strength, Bs. …
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f. a doing; vel-megan, well-doing, wealth.
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f. = megan; see ú-megð.
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(gen. -s, dat. magni or megni), n.
1) might, power, strenght (svá sem á leið sóttina minkaði storum m. hans);
2) the main, chief part of a thing; allt m. landsins, the main part of the land.
II)
adv., prop. dat. pl. from vegr; kvenna m., on the women’s side (in a chuch); karla m., on the men’s side; Hjarðarholts m., on the H. side (of the river); inum vinstra m., hœgra m., on the left (right) side; einuni m., from one side only (þar mátti einum m. at sœkja); öðrum m., on the other side (herskip liggja öðrum m. undir nesinu); báðum m., on both sides; öllum m., from all sides; þeim m., on that side.
or megum, adv., which may be derived, not from megin, but from vegr, veginn, with the m from the dat. of the preceding word; hjá altara kvenna megin, on the women’s side (in a church), Bs. i. 438; karla megin, on the men’s side, Pm. 108; Hjarðarholts megin, on the H. side (of the river), Nj. 35; þeir sátu í öndvegi enum úæðra megin, i. e. on the left side of the hall, Fs. 72, Fms. xi. 71; hinum vinstra m., Hrafn. 13; hægra m., on the right side; enum syðra m., on the southern side, Stj. 564, Fms. viii. 236; hit nyrðra megin, x. 16 v. l.; öðru-megin, on the other side, Nj. 43, 68, 144, Eg. 531; einu megin (einum-megin). from one side only, Nj. 246, Fms. ii. 281, Ísl. ii. 362; þeim megin, on that side, Grág. ii. 137; sínu megin hvárr, Fms. i. 305; báðu-megin, on both sides, Ld. 46; öllum megin, all around, from all sides. Fms. i. 149, 291, Ísl. ii. 343: hvárungi megin, on neither side, Grág. ii. 266, 267; tveim megin brikar, Kormak.
II. megum, hann bjó á Bálkastöðum hvárum megum, Grett.; sínum megum hvárir, Fms. viii. 51; báðum megum, Grág. ii. 266; …
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(gen. -s, dat. magni or megni), n.
1) might, power, strenght (svá sem á leið sóttina minkaði storum m. hans);
2) the main, chief part of a thing; allt m. landsins, the main part of the land.
II)
adv., prop. dat. pl. from vegr; kvenna m., on the women’s side (in a chuch); karla m., on the men’s side; Hjarðarholts m., on the H. side (of the river); inum vinstra m., hœgra m., on the left (right) side; einuni m., from one side only (þar mátti einum m. at sœkja); öðrum m., on the other side (herskip liggja öðrum m. undir nesinu); báðum m., on both sides; öllum m., from all sides; þeim m., on that side.
n., gen. megins, Gs. 22; but else contr. in gen. and dat. megns, megni, see megn; [from mega; Engl. main]:—might, main, strength; kosta megins, Gs. 22; þitt varð nú meira megin. Fm. 22; orms megin, 28; hjörs megin, 30; svá at þitt minnkisk megin, Hsm. 21. 1; oddar görva jarli megin, Mkv.; trúa á mátt sinn ok megin, Fms. i. 35; þegar er hann vitkaðisk ok fékk megin sitt, Fb. ii. 389; ok svá sem á leið sóttina minnkadi stórum megin (acc.) hans, Fms. ix. 250; Medi funnu megin hans, MS. 544. 39: ú-megin, a swoon; van-megin, weakness.
II. [cp. Engl. mainland], the main, chief part of a thing; allt megin landsins, the main of the land, Fms. x. 184; Jótland er megin Dana-veldis, vi. 53; megin árinnar, the main-stream, Þórð. 11 new Ed.: in a more local sense, máni þat né vissi hvat hann megins átti, the moon knew not his main, his place in heaven, had not his fixed course, Vsp. 5; jarðar-megin, the earth’s main, the wide earth, Hm.; vetrar-megin, the main part of winter, Sks. 59; veðr-megin, ‘weather-main’ the power, but also the ‘airt,’ direction of the weather; hafs-megin, the main, open sea; …
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adj. [Engl. main], strong; meginn ok máttugr, Stj. 26.
n. main strength.
m. main strength, Sks. 199.
f. main river.
f. a main river. Fas. i. 388.
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m. the main or chief As, i. e. Odin, Lex. Poët.
f. the main castle.
f. the main town, Fms. ix. 41.
f. main district.
f. the main district, Fms. viii. 59.
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n. a fair wind, Post. 233.
m. pl. great events.
m. pl. the main events, world-famed events, Vsp. 59.
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m. the great draught, of fish, Bragi.
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f. the great queen = the Virgin Mary, Geisli 3, Lil. 86.
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adj. ‘main dear,’ dearly beloved, Lex. Poët.
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u, f. the great widow, a nickname, Fær.
n. great mountain.
n. the main fell, Hkv. Hjörv. 5 (= reginfjall).
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adv. ‘main far off,’ very far, Fms. vi. (in a verse).
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a, m. a vast multitude, Geisli 4.
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m, the main body, Fms. viii. 322, v. l.
m.
1) general flight;
2) the main body of the flying host.
a, m. the main body of a host put to flight or flying, Sturl. ii. 223, Hkr. ii. 371, passim.
f. the main girdle, girdle of power; pl. megingjarðar, the girdle of Thor.
f. the main girdle, girdle of power. Fms. v. 345: plur. megingjarðar, of the girdle of Thor, Edda 15, 29, 60.
a. mighty good.
adj. ‘main good,’ mighty good, Fms. vi. 364.
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adv. very kindly, Clem. 26.
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adj. ‘main grim’ very fierce, Orkn. (in a verse).
n. the main, ocean.
n. the main, ocean, Rb. 438, 464, Mar. 1031.
main army.
m. the main army, Fms. i. 121, Orkn. 106.
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n. the main district, Hkr. ii. 89.
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m. the main hull of a ship, opp. to róðrar-húfr, N. G. L. ii. 283.
f. wisdom.
n, f. ‘main-sense,’ wisdom, Skv. 1. 39.
f. main harbour.
f. the main harbour, Grett. 107 A.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), ‘main glad,’ mighty glad, Grett. (in a verse), Orkn. (in a verse).
n. mainland, continent.
m. a mainland, continent, K. Þ. K. 8, Fms. x. 412, Sks. 155, Ld. 40, Orkn. 6, Fb. ii. 394.
a. without strength.
adj. without strength, Barl. 162, Bs. ii. 172, Karl. 358.
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m. the main of a thing, Sks. 185, v. l.
n. weakness.
n. weakness, Barl. 147, Bs. ii. 168.
n. main body of an army.
n. the main body of an army, Fms. vii. 260, viii. 315, Sturl. i. 38 (Ed. megit liðit).
a. important (mál meginlig).
adj. [cp. Engl. mainly]; mál meginlig, mighty strong words, i. e. holy oaths, Vsp. 30.
a. of little might, weak.
adj. of little might, weak, Sól. 2, Fms. xi. 103.
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adj. very hideous. Lex. Poët.
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adj. very mischievous, Fas. i. 435 (in a verse).
n. chief standard.
n. the chief standard, Róm. 352.
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adj. very mild, Lex. Poët.
f. the main forest.
f. the main forest, Eg. 378.
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m. the mighty god, Dropl. (in a verse).
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adj. very strong, Sighvat.
f. main course.
f. the main course. Sks. 196.
f. pl. mighty, powerful runes (charms).
f. pl. mighty, powerful Runes (charms), Sdm. 19.
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n. the main, ocean, Mar.
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adj. very fleet, Harms,
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m. the mighty king, of Christ, Skálda (in a verse).
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u, f. a main star, a star of first order, Rb. 110.
m. mighty gale.
m. a mighty gale, Sks. 44, Barl. 124.
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m. a mighty stream, current, Mar.
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n. pl. mighty tidings, Pd. 42.
m. great fame.
m. ‘main-fame,’ glory, Sdm. 5.
f. pl. a firm truce.
f. a firm truce, Ísl. ii. 381.
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n, = meginstormr, Fas. ii. (in a verse).
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m. the main way, geogr. the zones, Sks. 195 (meginvegir sem úbyggvanda er undir).
adv. mighty well.
adv. mighty well, Fb. iii. 315.
n. mighty feat.
n. pl. mighty works, labour, Gs. 11. Ad. (fine). Lex. Poët.
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n. a great meeting, Fms. vi. 50 (in a verse).
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f. great need; fá þú mey mann í meginþarfar (into wedlock), Skv. 2. 11.
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adj. very heavy, Sturl. (in a verse).
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n. strength, = megin, máttr (hann hafði fjogurra manna m.); um m. e-m, beyond one’s strength; þetta mál er nökkut þér um m. með at fara, is rather too much for you.
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a. strong, mighty (megnt mannfall); með megnu hugskoti, with a strong mind.
1. n. = megin, a contr. form, strength; likams megn, Bs. i. 317; megn ok frækleik, Fms. x. 256; hann hafði fjögurra manna megn, Háv. 54; af Guðs megni ok af krapti ens helga kross, Fms. x. 417; treysta á mátt ok megn = mátt ok megin, Or. 24; deila megn við e-n, to contend with, Lil. 8; var í því mest megn, it went to the highest pitch at Yule time, Bs. ii. 21: the phrase, um megn, beyond one’s strength, power; kasta steini um megn sér. Eg. 473; þetta mál er nokkut þér um megn með at fara, Fms. vi. 18; þat ráð mun þér verða um megn, 151; Guði er ekki um megn at reisa hann upp af dauða, Stj. 132; yfir megn, id., Bs. ii. 162, 175.
COMPDS: megnlauss, megnlítill.
2. adj. main, strong, mighty; var þá megnt mannfall, Sturl. iii. 63; svá var megn þessi rógburðr, at …, Fas. ii. 372; með megnu hugskoti, with a strong mind, forti animo, Bs. i. 11.
2. freq. in mod. usage in the sense bitter, fierce; and of taste, strong, bitter: of a quarrel, megn deila, megnt hatr: of illness, megn sótt, a strong fever; megn kvöl, the bitter pang, Pass. 41. 9: of a gale, megn stormr, megn hríð, megnt kafald: …
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(að), v. to be able, have strength to do a thing (þó at ek megni minna en einhverr yðar);
refl., ~st, to gain strength; en er synir þeirra tóku at m., when their sons began to grow up.
1. að, [megn], to be able, have strength to do a thing: þó ek megni minna en einhverr yðar, Grett. 98; munu vér ekki megna at berjask við þá tólf, Fas. i. 422: mod. with dat., eg megna því ekki.
II. reflex. to get strength; at hans ríki mætti megnask. to wax strong, Fms. viii. 204; hversu mjök megnaðisk ok aukaðisk Guðs réttr, x. 301; en er synir þeirra tóku at megnask, when their sons grew up to be men, Orkn. 132; eptir þetta megnaðisk sóttin, Eb. 264.
2. u, f. a bitter, strong taste.
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adj. able to do.
a. feeble, weak.
adj. feeble, weak, Bs. i. 321, Mar.
a. faint, exhausted.
adj. faint, exhausted. Fær. 183, Fas. i. 556.
(-ða), v. to make lean;
refl., ~st, to become lean.
ð, to make meagre, emaciate, Stj. 147; megrir öndina, Hom. 14.
2. reflex. to wax meagre, Stj. 519.
f. leanness.
f. [magr], meagreness, leanness, Stj. 201, passim.
from magr, meager.
f. = megrð, Eb. 150, Grág. ii. 341.
adv. = megin; öllum ~, from all sides.
see megin.
(-dda, -ddr), v.
1) to hurt, esp. to maim, injure seriously (hina rak hann ór landi, meiddi eðr drap);
2) of things, to damage (finna þeir at skipit var meitt neðan); to spoil, destroy (þá tók hann at m. hof ok hörga);
3) refl. to take hurt.
d, to hurt, of bodily injury; hann lék hann ílla ok kvaðsk mundu meiða hann, Eg. 189; munda ek þat ok vilja, at hann meiddi ykkr eigi opt, Fms. ii. 101; meiddu þig ekki, take heed not to hurt thee! hefirðu meitt þig?—esp. to maim, injure seriously, or if of things, to damage, sverðum þeir meiddu þann er saklauss var, Sól. 22, Sturl. ii. 181; en hina rak hann ór landi, meiddi eðr drap, Fs. 18, 99, Ó. H. 63; ok ætlaði at láta meiða eðr drepa ossa landa fyrir, Íb. 10; meiðit hvert skip svá at ekki sé sjófært, Fær. 260; finna þeir nú, at skipit var meitt neðan, Sturl. iii. 68:—to spoil, destroy, eptir þat kom hagl stórt ok meiddi allan ávöxt jarðar, Pr. 436; nú hefir yður vangeymsla mjök meiddan várn sigr, Fms. vi. 326; ef menn skeðja jörðu eðr meiða lands-nytjar, Grág. ii. 216; þá tók hann at meiða hof ok hörga, Bs. i. 10:—of a horse, to make it sore on the back, and part. meiddr, sore in the back.
II. reflex. to take hurt, be hurt, maimed, Grág. ii. 16, Fms. i. 273; meiddusk skipin þar fyrir, Ó. H. 164; ok hafði meizk (= meiðsk) þjóleggrinn, Bs. i. 344.
(pl. -ar), f. bodily injury, maiming, damaging (í manndrápum ok ~um).
f. bodily hurt, maiming, damaging, esp. in pl. of serious bodily hurts, dangerous wounds, Bs. i. 531, Nj. 21, Fs. 34; í manndrápum ok meiðingum, Fb. ii. 64, MS. 625. 64; at hann hélt lífi meiðinga-laust, unmaimed, unhurt, Sturl. iii. 132; þeim hélt við meiðingar, Nj. 21; meiðing fjár, K. Þ. K. 176.
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m. an injurer, Lex. Poët.
f. pl. treasures (poet.).
f. pl. [Ulf. maiþms = δωρον, Mark vii. 11; A. S. mâðm]:—gifts, presents, only in poetry; þiggja meiðmar, Skv. 3. 39; meiðmar (acc.) ok mösma, Km. 35; stórar meiðmar, Akv. 5; meiðma fjöld, Am. 93, Skv. 2. 2; fjöld á ek meiðma, Þkv. 23; en þeirrar meyjar meiðmum týna, referring to the mundr (q. v.), for if a man forsook his wife without due cause he had to pay her mundr, Skv. 3. 15.
(gen. -s or -ar), m.
1) longitudinal beam; sledge-runner (þá reif hann meiðinn undan sleðanum); fig., standa á önderverðan meið með e-m, to stand in the forefront as a champion, to support one; mjök þótti mönnum á einn meið hallast með heim, it went all on one side with them;
2) pole, log; telgja meið til rifjar, to cut a log into a loom-beam;
3) tree (hrafn sat á hám meiði);
4) gallows-tree (veit ek, at ek hekk vindga meiði á).
m., gen. meiðar, Gm. 34 (Bugge), but else meiðs, dat. meiði; [meid or mei, Ivar Aasen; Swed. mede; perh. derived from meiða, of a lopped and barked tree]:—a pole or longitudinal beam, esp. the two long beams in a sledge, also called sleð-meiðr; þá reif hann meiðinn undan sleðanum, … en Arnkell laust af sér með meiðnum, … hann laust sleðmeiðnum í mót honum, … en meiðrinn kom á garðinn, … en sleðmeiðrinn brotnaði í fjötrar-raufinni, Eb. 190: the phrases, standa á öndverðan meið með e-m, to stand foremost on the meið, to stand at the upcurving of the sledge-bearers, i. e. to stand in the forefront as a champion, Bs. i. 141; cp. ‘staa paa meiom,’ and ‘meia-hals’ = the rising of the meid, Ivar Aasen; mjök þótti mönnum á einn meið hallask með þeim, it went all on one side (metaphor from a sledge capsizing), Bjarn. 59; váð-meiðr, a pole to hang clothes on for drying; nú skulu þér hér reisa við ána váðmeið, ok er konum hægt til þváttar at hreinsa stórföt … þat hygg ek at við þann meið festi hann ykkr upp, Glúm. 390, 391, Rd. 296; cp. váð-áss, Hrafn. 20.
2. poët. a pole; telgja meið til rifjar, to shape a pole for a loom, to make a weaver’s loom, Rm. …
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or meizl, mod. meiðsli, n., mostly in pl. bodily hurts, injuries, mutilation. Sturl. ii. 181, Korm. 216, Fms. vii. 185 (v. l.), Bs. i. 530; meizla-högg, -sár, Fas. i. 331, iii. 33; meizla-laust, Fms. ii. 276.
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f. pl. = meizl, Edda 127, Ó. H. 70, Fms. vii. 185, x. 420.
n.
1) hurt, harm, injury, damage; at engum verði m. at, that it may do nobody harm; gera e-m m., to do one harm; hón kvað þat m., at, she said it was a great pity that; mikit m. var honum þat, þá er, a great loss it was to him when; láta sér e-t í m., to deny to oneself; hann lét sveininum ekki í m., he denied the lad nothing;
2) disease, sore (af því vatni þykkjast margir bót hafa fengit sinna meina);
3) impediments, hindrances (that make a marriage unlawful), = meinbugir.
n. [A. S. mân; cp. Old Engl. (Chaucer) meygned = maimed; Dan. meen], a hurt, harm; muna þeir mein er þiggja, a saying, Lv. 86; at engum verði mein at, that it may do nobody harm, Fs. 94, Al. 98; engum manni at meini verða, Fs. 131, Fms. vi. 350; e-m verðr mein at e-u, Grág. ii. 266: göra e-m mein, Fms. i. 99, Fs. 11; hón kvað þat mein (a pity) at hón hafði eigi þá menn augum leitt, Fs. 85; mein ok úhapp, Edda 18; geysi mikit mein var honum þat, 23; láta sér í mein, to deny to oneself, Hom.; hann lét sveininum ekki í mein, ok unni mikit, i. e. he let the boy want nothing, and loved him much, Nj. 147; taka sér e-t í mein, to part with a thing one cannot well do without.
2. medic. a disease, sore, &c.; ein kona varð fyrir meini miklu, Bs. i. 309; til bótar hans meins, id., 377; þá er meinit hvarf frá honum (of epileptic fits), 380: also used of an internal organic disease, thus, innan-mein, internal disease, 323 (of hydatides); fingr-mein, a sore finger; handar-mein, a sore hand; fótar-mein, 321, 328: brjóst-mein, a bad chest, but brjósta-mein, abscess or cancer in the breast, of women; …
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(að), v.
1) to harm, do harm to (m. e-m);
2) to hinder, prevent;
3) to forbid, prohibit (ekki mun ek m. öðrum mönnum at halda þá trú, er þeim sýnist).
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(-ta), v. to mean (rare).
að, to harm, Barl. 173; sólar hiti meinar þar um sumar, Stj. 69; þau meina þér ekki vætta, 24.
2. to hinder; meina e-m e-t, verðr hann sjúkr eða sárr, eða meina honum vötn eða veðr eða menn, Grág. i. 496; enda bæri eigi leitir fyrir né hæðir svá at þat meinaði, 433; hvárt sem meinar frændsemi eðr sifskapr, H. E. i. 513:—to prohibit, ekki mun ek meina öðrum mönnum at halda þá trú sem sýnisk, Fms. i. 305; faðir hennar ok móðir meinaðu þeim þat ekki, ii. 99; ok er henni var þat meinat, þá hljóp hón út á skóga, Fas. i. 517, Stj. 520, Barl. 65.
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(að), v.
1) to harm, do harm to (m. e-m);
2) to hinder, prevent;
3) to forbid, prohibit (ekki mun ek m. öðrum mönnum at halda þá trú, er þeim sýnist).
II)
(-ta), v. to mean (rare).
irreg., pret. meinti, but pres. meina, meinar; part. meint; [a for. word from the Engl. or Germ.; it first occurs about or a little before the time of the Reformation; Germ. meinen; Engl. mean]:—to mean; the passage, Landn. 333, is in the words of Björn á Skarðsá; ek meinti, Bárð. 6 new Ed., is from a paper MS., as are also Fas. i. 499 and iii. 488; the word, however, occurs in the Ósv. S. (a vellum of the 15th century), and is naturalised in mod. usage, Vídal., Pass., N. T. passim.
a.
1) blameless;
2) unhindered; ef meinalaust er, if there are no hindrances.
adj. blameless, Fms. vi. 109: unhindered, meinbuga-lauss, Grág. i. 307; ef þeim er meinalaust, if they are unforbidden, 26; prestr skal syngja allar heimilis-tíðir at meinalausu, if be is unhindered, Am. 37; oss dugir fagna Ólafs-messu meinalaust, id., Sighvat.
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1. f. harm, injury, Bs. i. 379.
2. f. [meina], meaning, opinion, (mod.)
(að), v. to do harm to.
að, to harm; lasta né meinka, Bs. i. 911.
a. ascetic.
adj. chastising the body; m. í vökum, föstum ok klæða-búnaði, hann gékk opt berfættr um nætr í snjóum ok frostum, Bs. i. 83.
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f. chastisement of the body, 625. 83.
a. painful, causing pain (var honum knéit harla meint ok úmjúkt); kenna sér meint, to feel pain; e-m verðr meint við e-t, af e-u, one takes hurt by a thing.
adj., meinni, meinstr, [Engl. mean], mean, base; hann er einkar m., he is ‘unco mean,’ Ísl. ii. (in a verse); þat var hverju dýri meinna ok verra, Fas. iii. 637.
2. in neut. meint, causing pain; honum var meint niðr at svelga ok svá at drekka, en meinst (superl.) at hósta, Bs. i. 347; fær hann svá skjóta bót, at hann kenndi sér hvergi meint, that he felt no pain, 179; var honum knéit harla meint ok úmjúkt, O. H. L. 89:—e-m verðr meint við e-t, or af e-u, to take hurt by it; féll hestrinn undir honum, ok varð honum af því nökkut meint, Sturl. i. 83.
a. guileless.
adj. guileless, Gm. 16.
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m. a nickname, Eb.
pp. poisonous.
part. poisonous, Fas. i. 181.
m. pl. impediments, hindrances.
m. pl. impediments which make it sinful or wicked to do a thing; á þessum ráðum liggja stórir meinbugir, þvíat þat er it mesta Kristni-spell skírðum mönnum at eta hross, Fms. i. 126; mun hann sjá alla meinbugi þá sem á eru þessu máli, at berjask við bróður sinn, xi. 221.
2. esp. of marriage, the forbidding the banns; finnask nokkurir þeir menn er þar vita meinbugi á, þá skulu þeir segja til fyrir brúðlaup, segja þeir eigi fyrr til meinbuga en brúðlaup er gört, þá skal engi maðr þeim þar um trúa, nema þeir hafi svá í fjarska verit, at þau tíðendi hafi eigi til þeirra komit, N. G. L. i. 333; hvernig þeirra hjúskapr var bundinn … ef þau bætti sína meinbugi, Grett. 162; en hverr sá sér vill kvánfangs leita, þá skal hann biðja þeirrar konu eðr meyjar, at eigi sé meinbugir á svá at hann viti, K. Á. 104; þeir sem meinbugi vissu ok lýsing heyrðu, … ef meinbugir finnask engir á, 110, 114, 116; meinbuga-laust, id.; thus, in reading the bans, the phrase, ef nökkur veit þar meinbugi á, skal hann segja til þeirra í tíma eða þegja síðan, Icelandic Prayer Book.
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adj. (-bægni, f.), vexatious.
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d, to make a false oath, Hom. (St.)
m. perjury, false oath.
m. [Dan. meened; Germ. meineid], perjury, K. Á. 218, Hom. 86, H. E. i. 522, Barl. 142.
n. trouble; leita e-m ~a, to try to embarrass one.
n. trouble; leita e-m meinfanga, Ld. 28.
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m. a nickname, Landn.
a. noxious.
adj. noxious, Hb. 16.
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n. adj. dangerous to pass, Ó. H. 57.
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n. part.; e-m er e-t m., fatally inclined to; eigi myndi sér svá meingefit at ríða hestinum, at …, Hrafn. 6.
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ð, to offend, harm, Bs. ii. 64, 132.
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f. ‘harm-doing,’ offence, Nj. 163, Fms. v. 14, Stj. 121, passim: bodily pains, Orkn. 140.
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adj. harmless, inoffensive.
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u, f. a concubine; hafa at meinkonu við sína konu, N. G. L. i. 16.
f. evil crow.
u, f. evil crow, a term of abuse, Ls. 43.
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n. a bitter pain. El.(?) 98.
n. noxious animal.
n. a harmful animal (reptile), Stj. 436, Eluc. 22.
a.
1) harmless, inoffensive; ætla ek mér þat meinlaust, it will do no harm to me; at meinlausu, without hindrance;
2) free from suffering, painless (aldri síðan varð honum höndin meinlaus).
adj. harmless, inoffensive, Fms. x. 281, Stj. 41, Hom. 49, Bs. i. 184, passim; ætla ek mér þat meinlaust, it will do me no harm, Fms. ix. 259; at meinlausu, without hindrance, K. Þ. K. 58.
2. painless; höndin var honum aldrei meinlaus, Ld. 224; sjaldan meinlaust (painless) með öllu, Bs. i. 347.
m. hindrance, = meinbugir.
a, m. a hindrance, Ld. 184, Sturl. i. 127: = meinbugir, Gþl. 230.
n. harmlessness, innocence.
n. harmlessness, innocence, 625. 194, Al. 106, Stj. 20, 49.
adv. painfully.
adv. painfully, Hom. 120, Bs. ii. 36, Karl. 376.
a. painful, troublesome.
adj. (-liga, adv.), painful, troublesome: inconvenient.
(-tta, -ttr), v. to chastise (~ sér).
t, to chastise, Fb. ii. 24, Hom. 73.
n.
1) pains, trouble;
2) self-chastisement.
n. pains, trouble, Mar., Hom. 73, Bs. 1. 194: eccl. self-chastisement, Sks. 486, Greg. 39, 70, 96.
2. illness, Fb. i. 213; liggr jarl í þessum meinlætum allan þenna vetr, 212: in mod. usage esp. of internal illness, hydatides, or the like: meinlæta-fullr, etc. meinlæta-samr, adj. = meinlátsamr, Magn. 466, Bs. i. 134.
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t, to abuse, Mar. 207.
n. abusive language, = meinyrði.
n. contumely, Hom. 8, 76, Bs. i. 94, Str. 91.
adv. perniciously.
adv. perniciously, Fms. x. 223.
hurtful, causing pain.
adj. hurtful, causing pain, Bs. i. 42, Fas. i. 206.
a. evil, noxious.
adj. evil, noxious, of things and persons, Stj. 483, Landn. 212 (of a witch): vexatious.
f.
f. pain, hurt, Barl. 201, Greg. 10, Stj. 97: illness, disease, Magn. 516.
f.
1) pain, hurt;
2) disease, sore.
f. = meinsemd, disease, Eg. 587, Bs. i. 351, 352: ill-will, chicanery, (mod.)
pp. placed in distress.
part. placed in distress, Bs. i. 37.
m. pl. baleful staves, charms.
m. pl. baleful staves, charms, Ls. 28.
m. perjurer;
a. perjured.
a, m. a perjurer, Vsp. 45, N. G. L. ii. 426.
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n. [Scot. man-sweir], perjury, K. Á. 18, Gþl. 547, Fms. xi. 436, Rétt. 85. meinsæris-maðr (meinsæra-maðr), m. a perjurer, Jb. 339, Karl. 552, N. G. L. ii. 426 (v. l.), Bs. i. 718.
m. affliction, grief.
a, m. affliction, poët., Skv. 1. 34.
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adj. malignant, Fas. i. (in a verse).
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m. a noxious beast.
f. noxious wight, harmful being.
f. a noxious wight, an ogre, = Germ. unhold, of giants, ghosts, monsters, or the like, Fb. i. 526: trölla ok meinvætta, ii. 314; þar mun liggja meinvættr nökkur, Grett. 110: fyrir þeim meinvættum (of highwaymen) er menn hugðu úti liggja, Fs. 4; Steinrauðr enn rammi er mörgum manni vann bót þeim er aðrar meinvættir görðu mein, Landn. 212: má þar engi maðr vera um nætr fyrir trölla gangi ok meinvætta, O. H. L. 57: metaph. a noxious creature, tak meinvætti þessa, Flóv. 34; var hvers-vetna í leitað at eyða þeim meinvættum, ok hafði ekki at sök (of mice), Bs. i. 194; hvat sem meinvætta mæltu þóptar, Bb.
(-rða, -rðr), v. to abuse in words.
t, to abuse in words, Bs. i. 855.
n. pl. abusive words.
n. pl. abuse, Bs. (Laur.)
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m. a mean thief; m. markar, ‘thief of woods,’ i. e. fire, Ýt.
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adv. of greater importance, more remarkably, Fms. v. 176 (v. 1.), vii. 219.
(neut. meira), a. compar., answering to pos. mikill and superl. mestr,
1) greater, bigger (hann var hverjum manni m. ok sterkari);
2) greater, larger, more, of quantity (meira fé ok betra).
neut. meira, compar. and superl. mestr, answering to mikill, q. v.; [Ulf. maiza = μείζων, maists = μέγιστος; A. S. mâre, etc., see meirr; Lat. major]:—more and superl. most, greater, greatest, and the like: of stature, taller, tallest, meiri en önnur naut, Ld. 120; meiri en aðrir menn, Fms. i. 44; mesta fingri ok lengsta, x. 398; væn kona ok kvenna mest, Eg. 598; hann var allra manna mestr, Fms. i. 2; kvenna vænst ok mest, 14; hverjum manni meiri ok styrkari, 17.
2. greater, larger, of quantity or quality; meira fé ok betra, Nj. 45; þeir er mest gæði flytja landi þessu, Fms. vii. 122; meiri hluti, the greater part, Grág. ii. 60.
3. more, most, of degree or amount; et mesta göfug-kvendi, Ld. 334; þeirra mestr maðr, 330; et mesta nytmenni, id.; hverr vildi vera öðrum meiri, Fms. i. 17; inn mesti íþrótta-maðr, id.; meiri ráð, Grág. i. 355; mesta sæmd, Fms. vi. 102; enn mesta kærleik, ii. 295; meiri þökk, 296; mesti félagsskapr, Eg. 29; frændsemis spell en meiri, Grág. i. 358, 365; þær konur er enn eru í meirum (nearer) þyrmslum, N. G. L. i. 75.
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adv. compar., answering to mjök and superl. mest,
1) more (konungr elskaði Hákon m. en nökkurn mann annan);
2) then, after that; sitja m. um sáttir saman, and afterwards sit at peace together;
3) with another compar.; firr m., farther off; sunnar m., more to the south.
compar., answering to mjök (q. v.), superl. mest; [Ulf. mais = μαλλον, maist = πλειστον; A. S. mâr; Engl. more, most; Scot. mair, maist; Germ. mebr, meist]:—more, and superl. most; meirr ok meirr, more and more, Stj. 468; meirr eptir annarra manna skaplyndi en Lauga-manna, Ld. 212; jafnmargir eða meirr, Grág. i. 336; en þó meirr at mildi, Fms. ii. 296; meirr en, more than; eigi m. en eitt fylki, Fb. i. 40, passim; elska meirr enn nokkurn mann, Fms. i. 17.
2. with another comparative; útar meir, sunnar meir, Fms. vii. 260, viii. 353; firr meirr, ‘furthermore,’ still further off, vii. 294; ok því þá fjarr-meir, at engi saurr stökkvi á konunginn, Sks. 365; nær-meir (cp. Dan. nær-mere), more near, Stj. 218; nær meir landi, more near land, Sks. 46; neðar meir, ‘nether-more,’ more below, 167; ofar meir, higher up. Fms. ix. 406; fyrr meir (Engl. for-mer-ly), ‘further back in time,’ formerly, Sks. 193: in former times, síðar meir, later, D. N. i. 122; meir verr, worse, worser, Sturl. i. 12: further, enda vill hann eigi meirr færa til staðar, Grág. …
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m. [A. S. mâse; Engl. tit-‘mouse’ (a different word from mouse, Icel. mús); O. H. G. meisa; Germ. meise; Ivar Aasen meis]:—a titmouse, Lat. parus. Edda (Gl.)
m. wooden box, basket (hann hafði mikinn meis á baki).
m. [O. H. G. meisa], a wooden box, a basket (in Norway of any basket of wicker-work); meis hefi ek á baki, verðrat matrinn betri, Hbl. 3; hann hafði mikinn meis á baki … rótar ofan í meisinn öllum fiskunum, þá er fullr meissinn, Grett. 137; selja mjöl í meisum, Gþl. 491; hann hafði borit í meis á baki sér Örvandil … ein tá hafði staðit ór meisinum, Edda 59; meisa síld, barrel-herrings, N. G. L. ii. 250; kola-meiss, Art., freq. in mod. usage; hey-meiss, a hay-box in which the hay is given to the cows, one meiss to each head of cattle.
m. mastership, great skill.
m. mastership, great skill, Mar., Fms. xi. 431, Fas. iii. 426.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), masterly.
a. masterly.
adj. masterly, Mar.
m.
1) lord, master;
2) master, teacher;
3) scholar.
a, m. [Lat. magister], a master, lord; þjóna sínum meistara, Ld. 26, Stj. 70, Rb. 412: a master, teacher, scholar, Sks. 244, Bs. i. 228, 229; klerkar ok meistarar, Ann. 1215; m. Ovidius, Bs. i. 238; m. Gísli, 236; mikils háttar m. er Áki hét, 805; sumir meistarar, Skálda 177; m. Priscianus, 160; Þóroddr Rúna-meistari, Thorodd ‘Rune-master,’ the Grammarian, id.: Master, of the Lord, N. T., as a rendering of Rabbi, passim: as a degree, meistari Jón, the popular name of bishop Jón Vídalin.
COMPDS: meistaradómr, meistaraligr, meistarasamligr.
(-tta, -ttr), v. to cut; m. manar, skegg, to cut the mane, beard.
t, [Ulf. maitan = κόπτειν; Germ. metzeln; cp. Germ. messer = knife]:—to cut; meita knífi, Fb. ii. 522 (in a verse); manar meita, to cut the mane, Akv. 37; ekki hafði hann látið meita skegg sitt né skera hár fyrir hrygðar sakir, Stj. 538.
(-s, meitlar), m. chisel.
m., dat. meitli, [Germ. meissel], a chisel, Eg. (in a verse), freq. in mod. usage; whence meitil-berg, n., Grett. 141; or also meitil-stapi, a, m. a steep precipice as if cut with a chisel.
(að), v. to chisel, cut.
að, to chisel, cut, Mar., freq. in mod. usage.
n., esp. pl.
1) bodily hurts, injuries;
2) mutilation.
and meizlur, see meiðsl.
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part. [makki], necked, of a horse.
f. might; pomp (rare).
t. [a for. word, from Germ. macht], might, Stj. 143; ef ek skal dæmdr af Danskri slekt, ok deyja svo fyrir kongsins mekt, Jón Arason: pomp, Fms. xi. 424.
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að, to make mighty, Stj. 140: reflex., 154, 174.
a. mighty, powerful.
adj. mighty, Fms. v. 345, Stj. 205, Skáld H. i. 31; the passage Ad. 15 is doubtful or illegible, for such a word could not occur in so old a poem.
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or mél, also mæl, n. [another form of mál (q. v.), but only used in a temporal sense; Ulf. mél = καιρός and χρόνος]:—time, a while; hann skal leggja á eigi skemra mel (not shorter notice than) en viku stefnu, Grág. ii. 349: in the phrase, eða meira meli, or a longer time; þrem nóttum fyrr eða meira meli …, fjórtán nóttum fyrr, eðr meira meli, a fortnight or more, Kb. i. 85; þá skulu þeir kveðja nótt fyrr en dómar fara út, eða meira meli, Sb. ii. 105; sjáu nóttum fyrr, eða meira mæli, Kb. 13.
2. the nick of time, the phrase, á því meli, at that time, moment, Grág. i. 392; á því meli er hann spurði sökina, 473; á því meli dreif til hans lið, Fms. viii. 27; en á þessu meli réð Knútr fyrir Englandi, x. 397; ok á því meli (mæli Ed.) er Björn var ór landi varð höfðingja skipti í Noregi, Bjarn. 13; ok vildi hann eigi útan fara á því meli (i. e. during the three years of outlawry), Glúm. 371; á várþingi eða á því meli, … á várþingi eða á því mæli sem nú var tínt, Grág. ii. 248; á skömmu mæli, within a short time, 655 xvii. 6; ok á þessu mæli, er Hákon svarfaðisk þar um á Gautlandi, Fms. …
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f. botan. papaver, Hjalt.
(gen. -rs and -rar), m.
1) grinding (standa at ~i);
2) flour; Fenju m., Fróða þýja m., gold.
m., gen. meldrs and meldrar; [mala; Swed. mäld; Ivar Aascn mælder; Scot. melder; Mælder-skin, the name of a mountain glacier in Norway, from its likeness to a flour-bag]:—flour or corn in the mill: koma til melds, to go to the mill, Gs. 4; standa at meldri, 23; Fenju meldr, the flour of Fenja = gold, Lex. Poët.; græðis meldr, sea-flour = sand (?), Edda (in a verse); the word is obsolete and poët., but remains in Sweden and Norway.
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m. a nickname, Landn., a Gael. word.
(malda, maliðr), v. to pound.
pres. mel, pret. maldi, part. maliðr, to pound, bray into dust; mcl þat allt í dust, Pr. 475, freq. in mod. usage.
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u, f. a noose, in kapp-mella: a trigger (?) in a cross-bow, þat var lásör ok mella í, Sturl. i. 180 (but malla the vellum C).
II. a giantess, Edda (Gl.); mellu-dólgr, ‘giantess-foe’ = Thor.
2. in mod. usage the mother, of dogs, cats, or the like.
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m. a kind of trigger (?), Edda ii. 494.
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m. [mél], the name of a horse (= Lat. lupatus), Hkr. i. 47.
(-s, -ar), m.
1) lyme-grass;
2) sand-bank, gravel-bank.
m., pl. melar, a kind of wild oats, esp. bent-grass, arundo arenaria, growing in sandy soil; it is esp. found in Skaptafells-sýsla and in Mýra-sýsla (near to Hitarnes and Akrar), cp. Bjarn. 22, which probably refers to cutting this grass, cp. Eggert Itin. §§ 490, 813; þeir leiddu hesta sína undir melbakka ok skáru fyrir þá melinn at þeir dæi eigi af sulti, Nj. 265; átta tigir mels í Hátuninga mcl, D. I. i. 199.
II. a sand-hill grown with bent-grass (such hills are called dunes or denes in E. Anglia, links on the N. E. coast); then, generally, a sand-bank, whether overgrown or bare; ríða eptir melunum, fram melana; á melunum með ánni; þar eru melar brattir ok lausgrýttir, … ok hrundu þeim af melunum, Glúm. 394, 395; ok er hann kom á mela þá … þá settisk hann á melinn … þá hratt Lambi honum fyrir melinn ofan á sandinn, Eg. 746, 748; ganga fram á mel nokkurn, Ld. 62; þá ríðr hann undir melinn, Gísl. 19; á sandmel þeim er þar verðr, Ó. H. 226; þar sem sandmelar tveir rauðir stóðu, … undir enum syðra melnum, Landn. 77, Gísl. 23.
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m., -skinn, n. the skin of a m., Grág. i. 392, 500, Fms. v. 251.
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f. fox hunting, Jb. 23. In local names,
(-lta, -ltr), v.
1) to malt for brewing (m. korn);
2) to digest (m. valbráðir); also fig. (m. reiði).
u, f. a malting, meltu-hús, n. a malt-house, Rétt. 94.
(-lta, -ltr), v.
1) to malt for brewing (m. korn);
2) to digest (m. valbráðir); also fig. (m. reiði).
t, [malt; Goth. maltjan is a conjectural verb from gamalteins = ἀνάλυσις]:—to malt for brewing; engir menn skulu kaupa korn til meltingar, en ef meltir, gjaldi mörk silfrs konungi, N. G. L. ii. 249; melta korn til sölu, Gþl. 351.
II. metaph. to digest, of food, Fms. vi. 351; þat smjör er rennr af þeim hvölum megu menn eigi m. með sér, Sks. 123; melta valbráðir, Akv. 36: metaph., þér meltið slíkt ok sjóðit fyrir yðr svá at ekki verðr af, Nj. 154; eigi mun ek melta reiði mína hversu lengi sem ek þarf at bera hana, Fb. ii. 295.
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f. a malting, N. G. L. ii. 249.
II. digestion, freq. in mod. usage.
m. bank grown with lyme-grass (melr).
a, m. a ‘mel-bank,’ hank on which bent-grass grows, also a sand-bank, Nj. 155, 265.
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u, f. a pad or cushion filled with melr.
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u, f. a moth in clothes, (mod.)
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n., botan. elymus arenarius, a kind of oats, Hjalt.; whence the local name Melgras-eyri in western Icel.
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m. a nickname, Sturl. ii. 228.
m. arctic fox, white fox (brenna inni sem m. í greni).
a, m. the ‘mel-dog,’ the white or polar fox, from its burrowing in these sand-hanks, Nj. 198, Bs. i. 581, Grág. ii. 347, Sturl. i. 88.
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m. a field of mel (oats), D. I. i. 199.
f. turf grown with lymegrass (melr).
u, f. turf grown with oats (melr), Hrafn. 27.
(gen. pl. menja), n. necklace (hann batt menit á háls sér); fig. in pl., treasures, jewels (fjöld á ek menja).
n., gen. pl. menja, dat. menjum; [A. S. mene; Hel. meni; cp. O. H. G. mani-kold = necklace-gold, as also the name of a plant, hence perhaps Engl. marigold; Lat. monile]:—a necklace, Þkv. 13; hringa ok men, Vsp. 23; móður menjum göfga, Hdl. 13; hlaðin háls-menjum, Am. 44, Yngl. S. ch. 17, 22:—they were also worn by men, hann lézk vilja færa þeim men er Björn hafði haft á sér, Bjarn. 67, Vápn. 26, 28: metaph. in plur. treasures, jewels, Þkv. 23, Fm. 16, Akv. 26:—poët. phrases, men jarðar, earth’s necklace = the sea, Orkn. (in a verse); men Karmtar, island necklace = the sea; lyngva men, necklace of the bush = a serpent; men storðar, the earth’s men = the world serpent, the Miðgards-orm, Lex. Poët.: as necklaces were chiefly worn by ladies, a woman is called mens Syn, the fairy of the necklace, Edda (in a verse): Men-glöð, the ‘necklace-glad,’ is the name of a fairy woman, Fb. i. 529, Fsm.: as also men-brekka, -brík, -döll, -gefn, -grund, -gunnr, -hlín -reið, -skögul, -skorð, = a lady; on the other hand, a man is called men-broti, -brjótr, -fergir, -myrðir, -rýrir, -stríðir, -vörðr, -þverrir, = the giver, breaker etc. …
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að, [mangr, qs. margr; cp. Engl. mingle, Old Engl. meng]:—to mingle, mix, blend, freq. in mod. usage: in part. mengjaðr, mixed, variegated; blá-mengjaðr, rauð-mengjaðr, mingled with blue, red, D. N.; með mengdu klæði, variegated clothes, v. 102.
n. multitude.
n. [Germ. menge], a multitude, Hkv. i. 26, 49, Merl. i. 49, Fas. i. 496 (in a verse), Akv. 4.
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part. mixed, blended, Sól. 10.
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u, f. the giant maid who grinds gold in the charmed mill, Edda, Gs.; hence gold is called the flour of Menja, Lex. Poët.
(-ta, -tr), v. to make a man of, breed;
refl., ~st, to become a man, = mannast.
t, [maðr or mannr], to make a man of, rear, breed; mun ek fylgja sonum mínum, menna þá ok hreysta eptir megni, Finnb. 332.
II. reflex. to become a man, of breeding and the like: ef þeir vilja mennask, Fb. i. 509.
2. part. menntr, bred, accomplished as a man, esp. in a moral sense; hann átti marga sonu ok vel mennta, Eb. 10 new Ed.; vel menntr um marga hluti, Fms. xi. 322; Valþjófr var manna bazt menntr, Orkn. 242; vel menntr í alla staði, Bær. 18; ok var Þórðr eigi at verr m. þótt hann leitaði sér ráðs, Ld. 52; hann var vel m., klerkr góðr ok trúmaðr, Fms. ix. 531; gildir menn ok allvel menntir, Hrafn. 26; hinn skörnligasti maðr ok vel menntr, Bjarn. 4.
n., a nickname; but freq. in compds., góð-, ill-, rík-, fjöl~.
n. a nickname, Glúm. 392; but esp. in compds, góð-menni, íll-m., rík-m., a bad, good, mighty man; and in a collect. sense, fjöl-menni, marg-m.
adv. manfully.
adv. manfully, Fms. iv. 269, Stj. 87.
a. manly, well bred, = mannvænn.
adj. manly, manlike, well bred, Sturl. ii. 78.
f. breeding, upbringing, education (ætt hans ok m. góð).
f. breeding; ætt hans, auðr fjár ok m. góð, Ísl. ii. 239; ef hann hefir eigi kunnáttu til eða m., Gþl. 487; með litlu menningar móti, Krók. 35; koma e-m til menningar, to educate, rear into a man.
f. human nature, humanity; = manndómr.
u, f. humanity; veita e-m ást ok mennsku, Hom. 47; miskun ok m., 48, Barl. 42; eptir almennilegri mennsku, in a human manner, Fms. v. 347: freq. in compds, karl-m., góð-m., íll-m.
a. human; m. maðr, human being, opp. to giants, ogres, or supernatural beings.
adj. human, belonging to man; at mennskum aldri, Hom. 62; mennskr maðr, a man of a man, as opp. to giants, ogres, or superhuman beings, Eg. 110; þótti hann varla m. maðr at afli, Fms. vi. 212, Ísl. ii. 360; ok er miklu betra at fásk við mennska menn en við úvættir slíkar, Grett. 113; sumar með Ásum, Álfum, Vönum, sumar hafa mennskir menn, Sdm. 18.
f. art, skill, accomplishment (hefir þú til ills þína m.).
f. art, skill, accomplishment; hefir þú til ílls þína mennt, Nj 66; ok er henni flest til mennta gefit, Fas. ii. 148; hón vildi eigi kenna dóttur sinni neitt til mennta, Vígl. 19; allan sóma, fyrst menntina, the instruction, Fms. xi. 430; þú hefir marga hluti til menntar umfram oss bræðr, Hrafn. 17; sýn mennt þína, of swimming, Þórð. 11 new Ed.; mennt í sundförum, Fms. ii. 29.
2. in plur. menntir; milding hafði menntir þær er mætar vóru í heimi, Ór. 3: learning, doctrine, arts. mennta-maðr, m. a man of high learning; lærdóms-mennt, learning.
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að, to civilise: part. menntaðr, learned, high bred; menntaðar þjóðir, civilised nations, (mod.)
f. breeding, culture.
f. culture, breeding; vel virðr sakir menntanar sinnar, of a poet, Bjarn. 3; mér fór sem mörgum börnum, at ek lagða á ekki hug þat sem mér var menntan í at nema, Fms. ii. 267; nema menntanar list, ok íþrótt, Stj. 151; opt er sá í orðum nýtr sem iðkar menntan kæra, Hallgr.:—culture, civilisation are in mod. usage rendered by mentan.
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m. a nickname, Sturl.
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m. son of a mare, a term of abuse, Fas. i. 74; fast gyrðr merarson, for the pun see Safn i. 33.
f. multitude, plenty (m. fjár).
f. [margr], multitude, plenty; mergð fjár, plenty of wealth, Eg. 47; magn ok mergð ávaxtar, Bs. ii. 165, passim in mod. usage; the old writers prefer fjöldi, q. v.
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part. ‘marrowed,’ strong.
(gen. -jar), m. marrow.
m., gen. mergjar, dat. merg, but mergi, Ls. 43; pl. mergir; [A. S. mearg; Scot. mergh; Engl. marrow; Germ. mark; Dan. marv]:—marrow, Edda 28, Grág. ii. 91; frost og fjúk. er fast á búk frosinn mergr úr beinum, a ditty, passim.
2. metaph. pith; mergr ritninganna, Mar.; af mergjum hjartans, id.; þat er m. málsins, þat er enginn m. í því, and the like.
COMPDS: merglauss, mergleysi, mergruni.
a. marrowless.
adj. marrowless, pithless.
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n. pithlessness.
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a, m. ‘lues medullae,’ a wasting sickness, pining away, caeliaca, Fél. x.
f. a wound to the marrow; also.
f. a ‘marrow-wound,’ a wound cutting through to the marrow, Grág. ii. 11, Nj. 217.
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adj., and merg-undaðr, part. wounded to the marrow, N. G. L. i. 68, 172.
(mer, marða, mariðr), v. to bruise, crush.
pres. mer; pret. marði; subj. merði; part. mariðr, mod. marinn:—to bruise, crush; svá var mariðr hans líkami, Róm. 329; the word is freq. in mod. usage, marinn reyr mun hann eigi sundr mylja, Matth. xii. 20.
(gen. pl. merkja), n.
1) boundary, = landa~;
2) banner, standard (tók ~t af stönginni);
3) mark, token, sign (mun þat til merkja, at þeir Grímr munu heim koma); þessir menn, er náliga vóru með øngum merkjum, of no mark, distinction;
4) remains, traces (þeir lögðu ok garðinn sem enn sér m.).
n., gen. pl. merkja, dat. merkjum, [mark]:—a landmark, boundary, esp. in pl., Grág. ii. 213, 216, 223, 279, 285, N. G. L. i. 41, 307, passim; also landa-merki, q. v.: sing. a mark, færa mark til síns merkis, Grág. i. 416.
2. a milit. term, a banner, standard, Nj. 127, Eg. 88, 268, Fms. vi. 334–336, 406, 407, 412, 413, 419, ix. 25; mælti hann til Halldórs Snorrasonar, at hann skyldi djarfliga bera fram merkit, Halldórr svarar heldr styggliga, beri héri merki fyrir þér rögum! vi. 159: for a classical passage as to a charmed standard (a raven), see Orkn. ch. 11, cp. Þorst. Síðu H. ch. 2, Nj. 158 (in the battle of Clontarf), as also Ó. H. (1853) ch. 201, 219, 221, 225, 227: a standard for procession in churches, Vm. 22, 52, Pm. 66.
II. a mark, token, sign; ok mun þat til merkja, at þeir Grímr munu heim koma, Nj. 197; ok hefir þat orðit til merkja, at, Eg. 766; þessir menn er náliga vóru með öngum merkjum, of no mark, distinction, Fms. xi. 261; merki munu þér at þykkja ef ek segi þér frá honum, Edda 47.
2. signification, importance; mikil merki í þessi tölu, Hom. 72; þau hafa mörg merki í sér, 51; …
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(pl. -ar), f.
1) marking;
2) mark, sign;
3) signification.
f. marking, the act, Grág. ii. 311.
2. a mark, sign, Skálda 179, Rb. 4; þér berit m. þess dómanda er koma mun at efsta dómi, you bear the mark, i. e. you represent on earth the judge in the day of judgment, Fms. vii. 37; merkingar afl, signification, Skálda 187; merkingar skilning, Stj. 29; með merkingum eða skýringum, id.
3. sense, signification, psssim in mod. usage.
m. the carrying of the standard.
m. the carrying of the standard, Karl. 19.
m.
1) standard-bearer;
2) man of mark, distinguished person.
m. the standard-bearer, Þorst. Siðu H. 170, Eg. 52, Nj. 136: in later times it was a post of high rank at the king’s court, stallari eða m., Gþl. 365, Bs. i. 712; whence it came to mean a man of mark, a distinguished person, Ld, 10, Eg. 36, Fs. 20, 161: hverir merkis-menn biskuparnir hafa verit, Bs. i. 59.
f. boundary river.
f. a boundary river, Grág. ii. 349.
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f. a landmark-birch, Grág. ii. 297, Jb. 236, 240.
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m. a landmark fence, Grág. ii. 265, Gþl. 381.
adv.
1) remarkably;
2) clearly, perceptibly.
adv. remarkably, Ísl. ii. 333, Stj. 293; svá merkiliga, with so much distinction, Bs. i. 797: perceptibly, Fms. xi. 441; Þorkell segir frá öllu vel ok m., Ld. 292.
a.
1) perceptible;
2) remarkable, noteworthy, distinguished (uppruni hans var ~).
adj. perceptible; m. hljóðsgrein, Skálda 179: articulate, of sound, 174: remarkable, noteworthy, distinguished, of men and things, ok þykkir oss hans sögn öll merkiligust, Ó. H. (pref.); at ek hafa mart merkiligt látið eptir liggja í frásögn hans æfi, Bs. i. 137; vitr maðr ok m., Fs. 11; uppruni hans var m., Þorst. Síðu H. 171, Fms. x. 161, vii. 150, Boll. 314, Sturl. i. 95, Dipl. ii. 11, H. E. i. 523, Ld. 100.
a. = merkmáll, merkorðr.
adj. speaking things worthy of note, Ld. 216.
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m. a landmark, outlet, Grág. ii. 353.
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n. a staff Þiðr. 289.
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m. a mark, print, Karl. 543.
f. planet.
u, f. a ‘mark-star,’ planet; sól ok tungl ok fimm merkistjörnur, Skálda 174, Lil. 10.
f. = merkisstöng.
f. the standard-staff, Eg. 289, Ó. H. 217, Fms. vi. 336, N. G. L. ii.
n. = merkistjarna.
n. = merkistjarna, Rb. 520.
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n. ‘mark-water,’ a lake used as a boundary, Grág. ii. 290, 348.
(-ta, -tr), v.
1) to mark (m. eyra á fé);
2) to mark, draw (hann var merktr eptir Þór, ok hefir hann hamar í hendi); ok m. á nagli nauð, and mark (the character) nauð on one’s nail;
3) to mark, note, observe (síðan merkti hann þúfu þá, er griðkonan þerði á fœtr sína);
4) to notice, perceive (merktu þeir at sólargangi, at sumarit munaði aptr til vársins);
5) to show, indicate (merkti Sunnifa þat í þessu);
6) to denote, signify, mean (vil ek, at þú segir drauminn ok hvat hann merkir).
ð, [mark], to mark, as a landmark, boundary; merkja um, to mark round, enclose, Stj. 409.
II. to draw, of an image; hann var merkðr eptir Þór ok hefir hann hamar í hendi, Ó. H. 108: of letters, ok merkja á nagli Nauð, and mark (the character) Naud on one’s nail, Sdm. 7; blóðgar rúnir merkðar á brjósti, Sól. 6l; ok merkja ena löngu með stryki frá enum skömmu, Skálda 163.
2. to mark, sign, note; hverr maðr skal m. hlut sinn, Grág. i. 37; vér skulum m. lið várt allt, gera herkuml á hjálmum várum ok skjöldum, Ó. H. 204: of sheep, merkja lamb (of the ears), Grág. i. 415; nú merkir hann þat annars manns marki, id.; þat er lögmark er eyru eru merkt á öllu fé, nautum, sauðum svínum, ok geitum, nema á fuglum, þar skal fitjar merkja, 416; dilkr ómerkðr, 417.
3. to mark, note, observe; síðan merkði (marked) hann þúfu þá er griðkonan þerði fætr sína á, Fms. i. 254; þú merkðu þeir at sólargangi (observed) at sumarit munaði aptr til vársins, Íb. 7: ok hér er þó maðr, ok merki ek at því (I infer it from the fact that) er hann kvíddi dauða, Niðrst. 1; þat er merkjanda, Hom. 65, H. E. i. 513. …
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I) a. of mark, noteworthy (~ maðr ok sannorðr).
II) gen. or pl. from mörk, mark.
adj. of mark, noteworthy, truthful; merkr maðr ok sannorðr, Fms. ii. 282; er bæði var merkr ok réttorðr, Bs. i. 138; sem dyggvastr ok merkastr, Th. 18; eigi merkr ok miðlungi réttorðr, Sturl. ii. 188; ú-merkr, inaccurate, untrustworthy, Ld. 232, Fms. ii. 268.
a. truthful, trustworthy (~ maðr).
adj. sensible in one’s words, Bs. ii. 65.
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að, to gleam; fjöll geisla merluð, the fell gleaming with beams of light, Edda (in a verse); hvít-merluð, white-gleaming, of the morning dew, Grönd. 66.
(gen. merar, acc. and dat. meri, pl. merar), f. mare.
f., mod. meri, gen. merar, acc. and dat. meri, pl. merar; [from marr, q. v.; A. S. mere; Engl. mare; Germ. mähre]:—a mare, Grág. i. 503, 504, Nj. 185, Edda 26, 57, Fs. 56, N. G. L. i. 75, Glúm. 355, Fbr. 104, 107 new Ed., Vígl. 37; eigi var þá undarligt at þú bitisk vel er merrin fylgði þér, Fms. vi. 323: as a term of abuse, ef þú hefir heldr manns hug en merar, Fs. 54.
COMPDS: merarleggr, merarson.
f. = messing.
or messing, f. brass, Þorf. Karl. 374; enda lögsilfr þat er meiri hluti sé silfrs en messingar, ok þoli skor, Grág. i. 392; mersingar-spónn, a brasen spoon, Þorf. Karl. 376, Pm. 6; mersingar-hestr, a brasen horse, Glúm. 353; mersingar-ker, -stika, -ketill, -kola, -kross, -lampr, a brasen vessel … lamp, Vm. 2, 8, 35, 102, 129.
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adj. brasen, MS. 732. 11.
n. mare.
and mer-hryssi, n. a mare, Eb. 34, Grág. i. 504, Ísl. ii. 62, Grett. 122, Nj. 167, Rd. 284, Ám. 98.
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adj. [meskjen = merry, Ivar Aasen], sporting, see ú-meskinn, Ld. 148.
I)
f.
1) mass; syngja messu, to chant the mass;
2) = messudagr (Jóns ~, Ólafs ~).
II)
(að), v. to say the mass.
að, to say the mass, hold divine service, Sturl. ii. 13, Ám. 14, Vm. 99: still in use, það verðr ekki messað í dag.
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f.
1) mass; syngja messu, to chant the mass;
2) = messudagr (Jóns ~, Ólafs ~).
II)
(að), v. to say the mass.
u, f. [eccl. Lat. missa], a mass, from the Roman Catholic times; syngja messu, to chant the mass, Bs. i. 21, K. Þ. K. 56, Hom. 137, passim, Nj. 157; messu bók, a mass book, Vm. 17, 68, Pm. 104; messu brefer, a breviary, Dipl. v. 18; messu söngr, chanting the mass, Bs. i. 823, Stj. 238, K. Á. 116, Vm. 108; messu embætti, mass service, divine service, Fms. xi. 429, Bs. i. 823; messu-föt, messu-fata-lindi, see lindi, Fms. iv. 111; messu klæði, messu skrúð or skrúði, the vestments, K. Þ. K. 56, 57, 72, 74, Fms. ii. 177, viii. 197, Bs. i. 63, 429; messu hökull, a cope, Nj. 279, B. K. 52; messu serkr or messu sloppr or stakkr, a surplice, Fms. iii. 168, B. K. 83, Vm. 29, 52; messu stóll, the. mass desk, Mar.; messu djákn, a deacon, clerk, Nj. 272, Vm. 5, Bs. i. 412, 871:—poët., odda messa, vápna messa, the weapon mass, = battle, Lex. Poët.
COMPDS: messufall, messnfært, messuhald, messumál, messuprestr, messusöngsmaðr, messuvín.
B. A mass-day, holiday, also messu-dagr, K. Þ. K. 44, 104, Bs. passim; messu-nátt, a holiday night, N. G. L. i. 343. The chief mass-days, commonly used as dates or epochs in the Sturlunga S. …
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n. adj. when service can be held; það er ekki messufært, when so few worshippers are present that no mass can be said.
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n. a failure of service, when there is no service from some accident.
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n. the holding mass, D. N.
n. mass time.
n. mass time, Fms. viii. 291, xi. 269.
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m. a mass-priest, N. G. L. i. 97.
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m. a reading clerk to chant the mass, D. I. i. 282, 489.
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n. communion-wine. ☞ The word messa has in Icel, remained since the Reformation = divine service; fyrir messu, eptir messu, vera við messu.
a. superl. greatest (margir hinir mestu menn); cf. mikill.
adj., mest, adv. most; see meiri and meirr.
adv. most remarkably.
adv. most remarkably, Bs. i. 805, 828, Fms. iii. 45.
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adv. for the most part, (mod.)
n. pl. weights; fig., koma sínum metum við, to have one’s own way.
1. n. pl. the weights of scales; einir pundarar, ein met ok mælikeröld, Gþl. 522; vega í skálum með metum, 523; vórti teknar skálir ok met, Fms. vi. 183; skálir góðar, þar fylgðu tvau met, annat af gulli en annat af silfri, xi. 128; meta-skálir góðar með metum, Ám. 55: the phrase, koma sínum metum við, to use one’s own weights, one’s own wages; Ribbungar kómu þar aldri sínum metum við, could never have their own way there, Fms. ix. 367, v. l. (Fb. l. c. mætti, but wrongly); þar hefir hamhleypan Dís komið við metum sínum, Fas. ii. 395.
2. metaph. esteem; vera í miklum metum, in high esteem; í litlum metum, in low esteem, meta-skálir, f. pl. scales, Ám. 55.
2. n. sing. = mát, an estimate, D. N. ii. 31; lög-m., Mar. (pref. p. xxxv).
(met; mat, mátum; metinn), v.
1) to estimate, value; ef þeir kynni m. sik, if they could value themselves rightly, not puff themselves up; m. e-t mikils, lítils, einskis, to attach great, little, no value to; make much, little, nothing of; munu þín orð hér um einskis metin, thy words will be counted for naught;
2) m. e-t fjár (kaups, etc.), to put a money-value on, to charge for (aldri mat hann fjár lækning sína); m. e-t við e-n, to name a price to one for a thing; met þú við mik rekkjubúnaðinn, tell me the price of the bed-furniture; ok vil ek eigi m. við þik (I will not charge you anything), heldr vil ek, at þú þiggir skikkjuna; to leave it to another to decide; allir mátu við Erling atkvæði um skírsluna, they all left it to E. to decide about the ordeal; við Þorkel met ek at fá þá hluti til, er hafa þarf, I leave it to Th. to provide the necessary things;
3) refl., metast til e-s, to be reckoned as, counted for (bað þá gera þá smíð, er til afbragðs mætist); m. e-t við, to contend about; ef þeir metast eiða við, if there is a contest about taking the oaths.
mat, mátu, metinn: imperat. met (mettu); pret. subj. mæti seems not to occur, but a weak metti (from metja) is used, Fas. ii. 464: with neg. suff., pret. matkat ek, Fbr. (in a verse): in mod. usage a weak pret. matti, mattist, mettist is often used, eg mattist um við hann, ef eg metti það nokkurs, and the like; þeir möttust um hin efstu sæti, N. T., and the like: [Ulf. mitan = μετρειν; A. S. metan; Engl. mete; O. H. G. mezan; Germ. messen: Swed. mäta.]
B. To tax, value, absol. or with acc.; ef þeir kynni meta sik, if they would value themselves rightly, not puff themselves up, Fms. viii. 40; hón mat sik eigi minna heldr en hón mat konunginn, Sks. 461: metaph., þá á eigi at meta kviðburð þeirra, their verdict is void, Grág. i. 54.
2. with gen. of the price; meta mikils, lítils, to value at much, little; mátu menn þat mikils, er Rútr hafði sett leysingjann niðr á úleyfðri jörðu Höskuldar, Ld. 102; konungr mat þá mikils, valued them much, Eg. 73; munu þín orð hér um einskis metin, thy words will he counted for naught, Sturl. iii. 139
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(pl. -endr), m. appraiser.
a, m. an appraiser, Grág. ii. 169.
(met, matta, mattr), v. to lap (with the tongue).
met, matti, [Ulf. matjan = φαγειν; from matr], prop. to ‘take food,’ but it remains only in the special sense to lap with the tongue like a dog; þeir er sötra vatn ór lófum allt eitt ok rakkar metja með tungu, Stj. 392: in mod. usage esp. used of fishes mumbling with the mouth in water when feeding, þtir vóru at metja stökkva ok steðja, Bb. 2. 29; metja strauminn, to gulp the stream, id.
II. metaph., meta árum í sjó, to dip the oars into the water, to dabble with the oars; þá meta þau í árum ok róa burt slíkt er þau mega, Háv. 46; kindred is the passage Fspl. 19, Skögul at skutlum skaptker Hnikars mat af miði minnis-hornum, S. ladled the mead with the horns, filling them out of the skapker, see Dr. Schewing’s note to the passage in his edition of the poem. The form mat for matti is due to a confusion with meta mat.
(gen. -ar), m.
1) esteem, value (þann metnað hefi ek á ráðagerðum mínum, at);
2) honour, repute (hann var þar í miklum metnaði);
3) pride, ambition (m. honum þróast, en mannvit aldregi).
or metnuðr, m., gen. ar, ‘meetness,’ honour, fame; fjár ok metnaðar, wealth and honour. Eg. 17; konungar görðu svá mikinn metnad hans (paid him that honour) at af hans bæn sættusk þeir, Fms. i. 13; var hann þar í miklum metnaði einn vetr, x. 220; Davíð fékk tíðleik ok metnuð af verkum sínum, Ver. 6; metnaðar virðing, respect of persons, Hom. 19; metnaðar kona, a lady of rank, Str. 53; með ríkdóm ok metnaði, Fs. 21: esteem, valuing, þann metnuð hefi ek á ráðagörðum mínum, at ek vil at þat sé haft er ek legg til, Fms. x. 249.
II. pride, ambition, Fbr. 137, Edda 144 (pref.), MS. 656 C. 12; virði hann sem Þorgilsi gengi til stærð ok m., Sturl. iii. 130; metnaðr honum þróask en mannvit aldregi, Hm. 78, passim, and so in mod. usage, where it is never used in a good sense: as also of jealousy, það er m. á milli þeirra, of-metnaðr, haughtiness.
COMPDS: metnaðar-fullr, -gjarn, adj. proud, ambitions, Hkr. ii. 234, Eg. 20, Fms. v. 71. metnaðar-leysi, n. modesty, Sturl. i. 125. v. l. metnaðar-maðr, m. an ambitions, proud man, Nj. 61. …
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að, dep. to puff oneself up, Str. 51.
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f. ambition.
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adj. ambitious,
m. man of distinction (hann var ~ mestr).
m. a man of distinction; hann var lögmaðr ok m. mestr, Ó. H. 151.
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n. [for. word], a metre, Stj. 288.
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að, [matr], to fill with food; Jesus mettar fjórar þúsundir manna, Icel. Almanack for the 7th Sunday after Trinity, and passim in mod. usage: reflex. mettask, to eat one’s fill.
II. in old writers chiefly in the part. mettr, having eaten one’s fill; having done; þveginn ok m., Hm. 60; ok er Egill var m., Eg. 566; þá var Flosi m., ok af borit af borðinu, Nj. 176; görðu þeir þá eld ok matbjuggu, en er þeir vóru mettir, Fms. i. 9, 209, ix. 353, Glúm. 357, Fs. 105, Eb. 20; en þeir neyttu ok urðu mettir, Mark viii. 8.
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f. filling.
n. a thing having a special value set upon it.
n. a ‘prize-thing,’ a thing of singular value, cattle or dead things, Grág. i. 398: of living stock, arðr-óxi gamall á vár, þat er m., 502; hrútr þrévetr ok ellri ok forystu-geldingr (a bell-wether), þat er m., 503; það er metfés-skepna!
n.
1) estimate, valuation;
2) esteem, consideration; þeir gørðu svá mikil ~ hans, at, they paid him so much regard that; sitja yfir ~um manna, to bear down others.
n. an estimate, valuation; hann skal eið vinna ok meta, ok skal hans m. þá standa, Grág. i. 393, Gþl. 296, Fb. i. 563, where = taxation.
2. esteem, consideration; var svá mikit Danskra manna m. at eins þeirra vitni skyldi hrinda tíu Norðmanna, Fms. x. 398 (Ágrip.); þeir görðu svá mikil metorð hans, at …, paid him so much regard that …, Grett. 125; þykkir mönnum mjök hallask hafa metorð Vestanmanna, Ísl. ii. 170; Guðmundr sat mjök yfir metorðum manna norðr þar, G. bore down all men there, Lv. 36.
3. rank, dignity, only in plur.; forráð bæði fjár ok metorða, Sturl. i. 4. and so in mod. usage.
COMPDS: metorðagirnd, metorðagjarn, metorðamaðr.
f. maid, girl, = mær.
u, f. a maid, Bs. ii. 27; see mær.
gen. from mær.
see mær.
n. pl. matters relating to marriage.
n. pl. courtship, Fas. iii. 84, 94.
m. a maid’s mundr.
m. a maid’s mundr (q. v.), Fas. iii. 170.
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u, f. a dim. [Goth. mawilo], a little maid, a nickname, Fb. iii.
a. maiden, virgin; girlish.
adj. maiden, Sks. 529, Gísl. 86.
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u, f. = meyrleikr.
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ð, to become meyrr.
a. rotten (m. börkr).
adj. [O. H. G. muruwi; mid. H. G. mur and murwe; Germ. murhe; Dan. mör]:—tender, of flesh, meat, or the like, or rotten of other things, Stj. 77; sem meyrr börkr, Bær. 19.
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m. tenderness, rottenness, Stj. 345.
n. female child, girl.
n. a female bairn, a girl, Fs. 26, Nj. 25, Ísl. ii. 198, Ó. H. 144, Grág. i. 281, Barl. 160.
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m. maidenhood, virginity, Fms. i. 2, Stj. 41, 116; meydóms-spell, 520.
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f. [möy-kerling Ivar Aasen], a maid, (rare.)
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m. a ‘maid-king,’ reigning queen.
n. maiden life.
n. girlhood, maiden life, 625. 176.
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u, f. a nun, = virgo monacha, Vitae Patrum (Unger).
f. girl.
u, f. a girl, Sturl. i. 152, ii. 101.
f. girl.
u, f. = meystaulpa, Fb. i. 262.
I)
n. time, moment (á því méli dreif lið til hans).
II)
n. pl. mouth-bit of a bridle.
n. pl., in mod. usage míl and mil, járn-mil, [it remains in Scot. mil-drop, and perh. Engl. mildew]:—the mouth-piece, bit, only in pl., for the mél were composed of two iron pieces linked together, see Worsaae, Nos. 487, 489 (like the Engl. snaffle-bit), and are used so still in Icel.; gnöguðu beislin svá at niðr féllu á jörð mélin, Karl. 376, freq. in mod. usage.
COMPDS: méldropi, mélgreypr, mélregn.
m. foam from the bit.
a, m. the drop or foam, from a horse’s mouth, Vþm. 14, Edda 7.