búr
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ bûr = habitaculum; bûr; bower; and byre; bauer], a word common to all idioms, and in the most of them denoting a chamber; this sense only occurs a few times in some of the old poems, the Völs. kviður, and even only as an phrase, Brynhildr í búri, 18; björt í búri, 2. 1: in prose now and then in translations of foreign romances, 22.
2. in only in the sense of larder, pantry (the and byre = cow-stall); this sense is very old, and occurs in Hallfred, 89, where búri (not brúði) is the right reading, as the rhyme shews—’stæri’ ek brag, fyrir ‘búri;’ skellr nú lass fyrir búrin þeirra Reykdælanna, i. 512. 601, 242; defined, búr þat er konur hafa matreiðu í, i. 459.
β. a house where stores are kept = úti-búr, 74; now called skemma. In a game, in which children try to force open one’s closed hand, is called að fara í búr e-s, to get into one’s larder.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Hel.Heliand.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Scot.Scottish.
- North. E.Northern English.
- Germ.German.
- Teut.Teutonic.
- esp.especially.
- allit.alliteration, alliterative.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Og.Oddrúnar-grátr. (A. II.)
- Gkv.Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)
- El.Elis saga. (G. II.)
- Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)