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þveit

nafnorðkvenkyn
, or þveiti, [the root is found in þwîtan, þwât = to chop; thwaite; Chaucer to thwite; also Dutch duit, whence doit, deut, döit = a bit]:— a ‘cut-off piece,’ but occurs only in special usages:
1. a piece of land, paddock, parcel of land, it seems orig. to have been used of an outlying cottage with its paddock; þær jarðir allar, bú ok þveiti, all the estates, manor and ‘thwaite,’ where bú and þveiti are to one another, ii. 81; séttungs , áttungs-þ., id.; öng-þveiti, a narrow lane, strait.2. in local names in Norway and Denmark, tvæt, tvæde (whence Tvæde as a name); and in Orma-thwaite, Braith-thwaite, Lang-thwaite, and so on, names implying Danish colonisation: Þveit, Þveitar, , Þveitin, , Þveitini ( Þveit-vin), Þveitar-ruð, , Þveitar-garðr, , Þveitar-fjall, , passim; in local names it never occurs, and is there quite an obsolete word.II. a unit of weight; þveiti mjöls, ; þveitis-leiga, a rent amounting to a ; þveitis-ból, a farm of the value or the rent of a ; tveggja þveitna (thus a as if from þveita) toll, þveitis toll, iii. 465; hálf þveit smœrs, 114.III. [Dutch duit, ], a kind of small coin, a doit, a subdivision of an ounce (= a fraction, cut-off piece); in weregild the baugþak was counted thus, sex aurar ok þveiti átta ens fimta tigar, six ounces and forty-eight doits; hálf mörk ok þveiti tvau ens fjórða tegar, a half mark and thirty-two doits; þrír aurar ok þveiti tuttugu ok fjögur, three ounces and twenty-four doits; tveir aurar ok þveiti sextan, two ounces and sixteen doits, () i. 193; ef maðr stelr minna enn þveiti þá skal heita hvinn, i. 253, 8–11, 28, 29; þar eru þveiti tuttugu ok þrjú at höfuðbaugi, … átta þveiti, ok þriðjungr ens fimta þveitis, ok hálft fjórða þveiti ok þriðjungr ens þriðja þveitis ok hálft annat þveiti, () i. 202.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • pret.þátíð (e. preterite)
  • North. E.Northern English.
  • cp.compare.
  • Engl.English.
  • Germ.German.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • prop.proper, properly.
  • opp.opposed.
  • þ.þáttr.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • qs.quasi.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • etc.et cetera.
  • i. e.id est.
  • D. N.Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
  • BoldtBoldt. (J. II.)
  • Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
  • Kb.Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
  • B. K.Björgynjar Kálfskinn. (J. II.)