dúnn
nafnorðkarlkyn
(dýnn, 126), [Dutch dune; down; and dun; daun is of Saxon or Dutch origin, as the d remains unchanged]:—down; taka dún ok dýna, i. 334; used of bedclothes of down; the word occurs in the old heathen poem , soft hann á dúni, 5; blautasti d., ; á duni ok á guðvefi, x. 379; vöttu (pillows) duns fulla, a verse of Hornklofi. In ‘dún’ is chiefly used of eider-down, which word is undoubtedly of origin, Fr. édre-don, eder-don or eider-daun; the syllable er is the æðar-dún, from æðr (the name of the eider duck), æði, æðar. The eider-down, now so important as an article of trade, is never mentioned in old writers or laws; they only speak of the eggs (egg-ver). The English, during their trade with in the 15th century, seem first to have brought the name and article into foreign markets. At first it was bought in a rough state; Bogi Benediktsson in Feðga-æfi II records that a certain Jón í Brokey (born 1584), after having been in England, was the first who taught the to clean the down—var hann líka sá fyrsti hér vestra sem tók að hreinsa æðar-dún …, en áðr ( during the English and Hanseatic trade in ) seldist óhreinsaðr dún eptir Búa-lögum. say, hreinsa dún, hræla dún. The Danes say, have dun på hagen, to have down on the chin.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Engl.English.
- Swed.Swedish.
- Dan.Danish.
- Germ.German.
- prob.probably.
- esp.especially.
- l. c.loco citato.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- nom.nefnifall (e. nominative)
- acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
- i. e.id est.
- Mart.Martinus saga. (F. III.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Gs.Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)