LÆRA
sagnorð
ð, [Ulf. laisjan = διδάσκειν; A. S. lærnan; Old Engl. lere; Engl. learn = to teach formerly, and sometimes so used still; Scot. lair or lear; O. H. G. leran; Germ. lehren: Swed. lära; Dan. lære; in all changing the s into r; the word may be a derivative from lesa (I), to gather; cp. Eat. legere, to gather and to read]:
I. to teach, with acc. or absol.; þeirra kenningar lærðu oss, Hom. (St.): the disciple in acc., læra annan í stað sinn, K. Þ. K. 60; hann lærði Ara prest, Hkr. (pref.); hverr sá maðr er lærir aðra, Gd. 35; hann lét læra hann á vígfimi ok riddara-skap ok allsháttar íþróttir, Fms. i. 97: lærðr á Látinu-tungu, K. Þ. K. 74; vel lærðir til vápna ok riddara-skaps, Sks. 381; nema hjarta heyrandans lærisk af helgum Anda, Greg. 19; lærask at e-m, to get information from a person, Karl. 444; cp. lærðr below.
II. to learn, in mod. usage iir this sense only, but seems not to occur in old writers, for Fas. ii. 67 is a paper MS., but cp. læra bók, Nd. 18 (a poem of the beginning of the 15th century).