auki
nafnorðkarlkyn
a, eke [ eaca; Old and eke or eik]
1. increase, addition; Abram tók þann auka nafns síns, 14; a. öfundar ok hatrs, 192: also in the phrase, verða at moldar auka, to become dust, to die, in a verse in the i. 580; maðr er moldu samr, man is but dust, 47; and another proverb, lauki er lítið gæft til auka, used by Sighvat (), the leek needs but little care to grow; sárs-auki, pain, 47; Danmerkr auki is a name of Zealand used by Bragi, I: the phrase, í miklum auka, in a huge, colossal shape, 345 (in a verse); hence perhaps comes the popular phrase, að færast í aukana (or haukana), to exert to the utmost one’s bodily strength, Glámr færðist í alla auka (of one wrestling), 114 A, ( 1853 has færðist í aukana.)2. seed, germs, thou hast given me no seed, III. Gen. xv. 2; the sperm of whales, amber, 137.
β. produce of the earth, 193, 200.γ. interest of capital, ii. 380; vide áauki, sársauki, sakauki, i. 187.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Scot.Scottish.
- cp.compare.
- poët.poetically.
- Ed.edition, editions, edited.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- esp.especially.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Ver.Veraldar saga. (E. II.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Hervar. S.Hervarar saga. (C. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Sl.Sólarljóð. (A. III.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Mirm.Mirmants saga. (G. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Glúm.Víga-Glúms saga. (D. II.)
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- Sks.Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)
- Barl.Barlaams saga. (F. III.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)