bý
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ apis; the word is not on record; beo; bee; pia; biene, and older form beie, Grimm i. 1367; Swed.-Dan. bi]:—a bee; the spelling in with ý is fixed by long usage, and by a rhyme in the , Jöfurr sveigði ý | flugu unda bý, where ý (a bow) and bý (bees) rhyme; because perhaps an etymology from bú floated before the mind, from the social habits of bees, 86; the simple by is quite obsolete in which only uses the compd,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Lat.Latin.
- Goth.Gothic.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- Germ.German.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Höfuðl.Höfuðlausn. (A. III.)
- Barl.Barlaams saga. (F. III.)