dáð
nafnorðkvenkyn
[ dêds, in missdeds. = παράβασις, missethat, misdeed; dæd; deed; tat; that; daad]:—deed; phrase, drýgja dáð, to do a daring deed, iii. 7, 10; dáð ok drengskapr, Band, 10: the compds ó-dæði, a misdeed; for-dæða, an evil-doer; the adverbial phrase, af sjálfs-dáðum, of one’s own accord.
β. valour; ef nokkur dáð er í þér, xi. 86, 623. 49: the word is not much in use, or merely in compds as dáð-framr, dáð-fimr, dáð-gjarn, dáð-göfugr, dáð-kunnr, dáð-mildr, dáð-rakkr, dáð-sterkr, dáð-sæll, dáð-vandr, , all of them ‘epitheta ornantia,’ bold, valiant, , but none ot them can be used in prose without affectation.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- Germ.German.
- Engl.English.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- mod.modern.
- Dan.Danish.
- allit.alliteration, alliterative.
- cp.compare.
- poët.poetically.
- etc.et cetera.
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.