Yrða

aka

sagnorð
ók, óku, ekit; ek. It also occurs in a weak form, að, 104, which form is now perhaps the most common. [Neither nor use this word, which appears also to be alien to the South-Teut. idioms. The Germans say fahren; the English to drive, carry; yoke. In Latin, however, agere; άγειν] Gener. to move, drive, transport, carry:
I. to drive in harness in a sledge or other vehicle (where the vehicle is in ), as also the animal driven; bryggjur svá breiðar, at aka mátti vögnum á víxl, ‘briggs’ ( wharfs or piers,, ‘Filey Brigg’) so broad, that wains might meet and pass each other, ii. 11; gott er heilum vagni heim at aka, ‘tis good to drive home with a whole wain, to get home safe and sound, Horace solve senescentem, 464, 61; þórr á hafra tvá, ok reið þá er hann ekr, in which he drives, 14, adds í ( reið þá er hekr i), which may be the genuine reading.
β. with the í; Freyr ók ok í kerru með gelti, 38.γ. to drive, travel by driving; þeir óku upp á land, 543; fóru þeir í sleðann ok óku nóttina alia, drove the whole night, iv. 317. With the road taken in ; aka úrgar brautir, 36; báðu hennar ok heim óku ( henni being understood), carrying a bride home, 37. 20.
II. to carry or cart a load, (to lead, in the north of England):—in Iceland, where vehicles are rare, it may perhaps now and then be used of carrying on horseback. The load carried is commonly in or :
α. : aka saman hey, to cart hay, 150; saman ok hann heyit, Ísl. ii. 330; hann ok saman alla töðu sína, 94; þá tekr Gísli eyki tvá, ok ekr fé sitt til skógar, 121; but , ok ekr til skógar með fjárhlut sinn, 36; þá let konungr aka til haugsins vist ok drykk, then the king let meat and drink be carted to the ‘how’ (barrow), x. 186; vill hann húsit ór stað færa, ok vill hann aka þat, carry it away, ii. 257; líkin váru ekin í sleða, carried in a sledge, i. 144.β. more , as now; hann ók heyjum sínum á öxnum, carried his hay on oxen, 43 new ; einn ók skarni á hóla, carted dung alone on the fields, 67, 277.γ. with the animals in , Þórólfr let aka þrennum eykjum um daginn, with three yoke of oxen, 152; or with the á, ríðr Þórðr hesti þeim er hann hafði ekit á um aptaninn, Ísl. ii. 331, 43; ef maðr ekr eðr berr klyfjar á, leads or carries on packsaddles, i. 441.δ. , þat mun ek til finna, at hann ok eigi í skegg ser, that he did not cart it on his own beard, 67.ε. , ekinn uxi, a yoked, tamed ox, 152.
III. used by sailors, in the phrase, aka segli, to trim the sail; aka seglum at endilöngum skipum, vii. 94; bað hann þá aka skjótt seglunum, ok víkja út í sund nokkut, 131. In , aka seglum eptir vindi, to set one’s sail after (with) the wind, to act according to circumstances; aktaumar.IV. in a great many proverbs and phrases, aka heilum vagni heim, v. above; aka höllu fyrir e-m, to get the worst of it, 206; aka undan (milit), to retire, retreat slowly in a battle; óku þeir Erlingr undan ofan með garðinum, vii. 317; akast undan (), id., 278; þeir ökuðust undan ok tóku á skógana, they took to the woods, 174 (where the weak form is used); sumir Norðmenn óku undan á hæli ofan með sjónum, x. 139: aka e-m á bug, the figure probably taken from the ranks in a battle, to make one give way, repel, en ef Ammonite aka, þér á bug, if they be too strong for thee, 512. 2 Sam. x. 11. 7; also , aka bug á e-n, id.; mun oss þat til Birkibeinum, at þeir aki á oss engan bug, to stand firm, with unbroken ranks, viii. 412. It is now used , e-m á ekki ór að aka, of one who has always bad luck, probably , ór steini or the like being understood; GÍsl. 54, the phrase, þykir ekki ór steini hefja, in the same sense, the figure being taken from a stone clogging the wheels; ok hann af sér fjötrinum, threw it off by rubbing, ii. 573; þá ekr Oddr sér þar at, creeps, rolls himself thither, of a fettered prisoner, id.; the phrase, að aka sér, is to shrug the shoulders as a mark of displeasure: aka ór öngum, ex angustiis, to clear one’s way, get out of a scrape, 52; aka í moínn, to strive against, a cant phrase. Impers. in the phrase, e-m verðr nær ekit, is almost run over, has a narrow escape, varð honum svá nær ekit at hann hleypti inn í kirkju, he was so hard driven that he ran into the church, ix. 485; hart ekr at e-m, to be in great straits, ok er þorri kemr, þá ekr hart at mönnum, they were pressed hard, Ísl. ii. 132; ekr mi mjök at, I am hard pressed, GÍsl. 52; er honum þótti at sér aka, when death drew near,, of a dying man, 119 A. Reflex., e-m ekst e-t í tauma, to be thwarted in a thing, where the figure is taken from trimming the sail when the sheet is foul, xi. 121. In later Icelandic there is a verb akka, að, to heap together, a. e-u saman, no doubt a corruption from aka with a double radical consonant, a cant word. Aka is at present a rare word, and is, at least in common speech, used in a weak form, akar instead of ekr; akaði = ók; akat = ekit.
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