berr
lýsingarorð
[ bär; bare; bar; bos; bosus; the Goth word is not on record, but was sounded basus; the radical form is b-s, not b-r, and it is consequently different from -perio (in aperio), or bera, ferre, v. Grimm ];:— nudus, bare, naked; albrynjaðr svá at ekki var bert nema augun, vii. 45; beran vápnastað, 9; undir berum himni, under the bare sky, in open air, sub dio, 544; á beru svæði, in open field; ber sverð, naked swords, i. 266; ríða berum hestum = berbakt, Dl. ii.
2. naked, unprotected, ii. 8; berr er hverr á baki nema sér bróður eigi (a proverb), 265.
β. uncovered, open, clear, manifest; segja með berum orðum, in clear words, 447; verða berr at e-u, to be convicted of a thing, 656 A, 25; berar jartegnir, ii. 221; góran sik beran at e-u, to shew openly, mostly in a bad sense, xi. 55; vóru berastir í því Þrændir, the were most undisguised in it, ii. 57; göra bert, to make known, lay bare, i. 32, vii. 195.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Slav.Slavonic.
- Litt.Littonian.
- prob.probably.
- Lat.Latin.
- s. v.sub voce.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Karl.Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Th.Theophilus. (F. III.)
- Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)