bú
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ bû = domicilium; bû; bau = tillage, cultivation; also uses beo or beu, = seges, also bouwt = messis, in Schmeller Heliand Glossary:—the root of this word will be traced more closely under the radical form búa; here it is sufficient to remark that ‘bú’ is an apocopate form, ‘bug’ or ‘bugg;’ the root remains unaltered in the branch to which bygg, byggja, and other words belong]
1. a house; bú and bæ (býr) are twins from the same root (bua); bær is the house, bú the household; the οικος (Ϝοικος) embraces both; þeir eta upp bú mitt, i. 251; biðla til móður minnar og eyða búi hennar, 248; bú mitt er á förum, iv. 318; gott bú, ix. 35; etr þú upp bú hans bótalaust, xvi. 431; svo hann er fær uni að veita búinu forstöðu, xix. 161; hús og bújörð, og góðan kvennkost, xiv. 64; the Prose Translation by Egilsson. In the Northern countries ‘bú’ implies the notion of living upon the produce of the earth; in Norway and in that of living on the ‘milk’ (málnyta) of kine, ewes, or she-goats; þat er bú, er maðr hefir málnytan smala, it is ‘bú’ if a man has a milking stock, i. 158; the old says, a ‘bú,’ however small it be, is better to have than not to have; and then explains, ‘though thou hast but two she-goats and a cottage thatched with shingle, yet it is better than begging;’ saying, sveltr sauðlaust bú, a sheepless household starves: ‘bú’ also means the stores and stock of a household; göra, setja, reisa bú, to set up in life, have one’s own hearth, i. 127, 1. 219, i. 197, 40; bregða búi, to give up farming or household; taka við búi, to take to a farm, i. 198; eiga bú við e-n, to share a household with one, 200; ráðask til bús, id.; fara búi, to remove one’s household, flit, 225; hafa bú, hafa rausnar-bú, 226; eiga bú, iii. 79, 137: phrases, börn og bú, ii. 498; bóndi er bú-stólpi, bú er landstólpi, the ‘bóndi’ is the stay of the ‘bú,’ the ‘bú’ is the stay of the land; búa búi sínu, iii. 312; búa umegðar-búi, to have a heavy household (many children), 90; hafa kýr ok ær á búi, 236: housekeeping, in the phrase, eiga einkis í bú at biðja, to have plenty of everything, i. 131, 132; bæði þarf í búit mjöl ok skreið, 18: home, house, reið Hrútr heim til bús síns, 4; á búi, at home, iv. 256, 82.2. estates; konungs-bú, royal demesnes; þar er bú hans vóru, 42, 43, 124, fara milli búa sinna, to go from one estate to another, id.; eiga bú, to own an estate.3. the stock in a farmstead; sumir lágu úti á fjöllum með bú sín, iii. 75; drepa niðr bú, höggva bú, taka upp bú, to kill or destroy one’s stock, ix. 473, 90.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Hel.Heliand.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- mod.modern.
- Germ.German.
- cp.compare.
- Teut.Teutonic.
- qs.quasi.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Gr.Greek.
- esp.especially.
- i. e.id est.
- allit.alliteration, alliterative.
- adv.atviksorð (e. adverb)
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Od.Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Bb.Búnaðar-bálkr.
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Eb.Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- K. Þ. K.Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)