díar
nafnorðkarlkyn
[the has two words, but both of them poetical and obsolete, díar answering, by the law of Interchange, to θεός ( d = θ), and tívar, by the same law, to deus ( t = d); devas, θειος, dîvus, dio, Fr. dieu]:—gods or priests; this word occurs only twice, 2—þat var þar siðr, at tólf hofgoðar vóru æðstir, skyldu þeir ráða fyrir blótum ok dómum manna í milli; þat eru díar kallaðir eðr drottnar,—where diar means not the gods themselves but the priests; and by the old poet Kormak in an obscure periphrasis, in a poem addressed to the staunch heathen earl Sigurd; Snorri ( 96), in quoting Kormak, takes the word to mean gods; but the version given in seems more likely; the díar of the were probably analogous to the goði, from goð (deus). The age of Kormak shews that the word was probably not borrowed from the Latin.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- viz.namely.
- Gr.Greek.
- Lat.Latin.
- cp.compare.
- Sansk.Sanskrit.
- Ital.Italian.
- ch.chapter.
- Yngl. S.Ynglinga saga. (C. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)