bil
nafnorðhvorugkyn
, a moment, twinkling of an eye; í því bili, 115; þat bil, that very moment, 149, 157, i. 45.
β. , intervallum, an open space left; b. er þarna, ii. 67; orðin standa eiga þétt (namely in writing), en þó bil á milli, an rhyme.γ. the poetical compds such as biltrauðr, bilstyggr, bilgrönduðr …, (all of them epithets of a hero, fearless, dauntless,) point to an obsolete sense of the word, failure, fear, giving way, or the like; bilbugr, bilgjarn, and the verb bila; also tímabil, a period; millibil, distance; dagmálabil, hádegisbil, nónbil, , nine o’clock, full day-time, noon-time, II. name of a goddess,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- temp.temporal.
- loc.local, locally.
- Lat.Latin.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- cp.compare.
- etc.et cetera.
- fem.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- pr.proper, properly.
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.