bót
nafnorðkvenkyn
ar, , bætr, [ bota; bôt; boot, booty, to boot; puoz; büsse; akin to bati, better, ]:—bettering, improvement:
1. a cure, remedy, mental as well as bodily, from sickness, loss, sorrow, ; fá bót e-s, meina, vii. 251, ix. 427, i. 175; allra meina bót; vinna e-m b., to comfort one, 212; bera til bóta, to amend, xi. 236; berja … e-n til óbóta is to beat … one so that he never recovers from it.2. as a law term, almost always in , atonement, compensation, and = mann-bætr, weregild, vígs-bætr, sak-bætr, , vii. 36, 4, 9, 106, Ísl. ii. 272, and in endless cases in (Vl.) and : bætr and mann-gjöld are often used indiscriminately, tvennum bótum, or tvennum manngjöldum, a double weregild; also the phrase, halda uppi bótum, to discharge, pay the b.; the is rare in this sense, 58, ii. 182.3. in such phrases as, e-t berr til bóta (), it is a comfort, satisfaction, 58, x. 264; (mikilla) bóta vant, very shortcoming, 328.4. a patch, of an old torn garment; enginn setr bót af nýju klæði á gamalt fat, Matth. ix. 17; svört bót var milli herða honum, ii. 230.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- Germ.German.
- etc.et cetera.
- esp.especially.
- cp.compare.
- e. g.exempli gratia.
- sing.eintala (e. singular)
- impers.ópersónulegt (e. impersonal)
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