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1. [ jêr; gear; year; jabr; the idioms all drop the j, as in ungr, young; also the ωρα; hora; renders not only ετος but also sometimes καιρός and χρόνος by jêr].I. a year, = annus, divided into twelve lunar months, each of 30 days, with four intercalary days, thus making 364 days; as the year was reckoned about the middle of the 10th century (the original calculation probably only reckoned 360 days, and made up the difference by irregular intercalary months). About the year 960 Thorstein Surt introduced the sumarauki (intercalary week), to be inserted every seventh year, thus bringing the year up to 365 days. After the introduction of Christianity ( 1000) the sumarauki was made to harmonize with the Julian calendar; but from 1700 with the Gregorian calendar; v. the words sumarauki, hlaupár, mánuðr, vika, , 4, 6, i. 67; telja árum, to count the time by years, 6; í ári, used , at present, as yet, 41, 42 (in a verse).II. = annona, plenty, abundance, fruitfulness; the phrase, friðr ok ár, vii. 174, Yngl. 8–12; ár ok fésæla, ; þá var ár urn öll lönd, id.; létu hlaða skip mörg af korni ok annarri gæzku, ok flytja svá ár í Danmörku, xi. 8, 323, i. 526, 68; gott ár, 39; blota til árs, i. 34.III. the name of the Rune RUNE (a), 176; in the and Runes the j has the name jêr, gêr, according to the and pronunciation of this word; vide p. 2, col. 1.
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2. I. olim [ air = παλαί; yore], used nearly as a substantive followed by a , but only in poetry; in the phrase, ár var alda, in times of yore, in principio, 3, 2. 1: also, ár var þaz (= þat es), the beginning of some of the mythical and heroical poems, 3. i, 1. 1; árdagar.II. mane [ ær; êr; ηρι-, early, árla], rare, (the prolonged form árla is ); it, however, still exists in the common phrase, með morgunsárinu (spelt and in a single word), primo diluculo; elsewhere poet, or in laws, ár of morgin, early of a morning, verse 1, ii. 280; rísa ár, to rise early, 58, 59; ár né um nætr, 2. 34, ; í ár, = early, Ísl. ii. (Hænsa Þór. S.) 161; snemma í ár, 46, , where the um morgininn í ár, i. 503: it also sometimes means for ever, svá at ár Hýmir ekki mælti, for an age he did not utter a word, remained silent as if stupefied, 25, ; ara þúfu á skaltu ár sitja, 27; the phrase, ár ok síð og allan tíð, early and late and always. In compds = matutinus.
3. [ ár; oar; åre], an oar, old form of , , ́r; ́ru or áru, 60 new , but commonly ár; árar, 221, 360, viii. 189, 417: in the phrases, koma eigi ár sinni fyrir borð, to be under restraint, in a bad sense, of one who cannot run as fast as he likes, 170; vera á árum e-s = undir ára burði e-s, v. below; draga árar um e-t, to contend about a thing, the metaphor taken from a rowing match, 159; taka djúpt í árinni, to dip too deep, overdo a thing.
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