Yrða

dýfa

sagnorð
ð, [ daupjan = βαπτίζειν; taufjan; taufen; döbe; dyppan, akin to djúpr; also dúfa, a billow; all these words are akin, but the dive is the same word]:—to dip, with ; d. e-m í vatn, to dip one into water, 139, 6, i. 339; d. sér, to dive: the word is now , but rare in old writers, who preferred drepa; in it is only used in the sense of christening = baptizare, to dip into water, but never so in the , which renders baptize by skira.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • cp.compare.
  • Goth.Gothic.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Germ.German.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • dat.þágufall (e. dative)
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • prop.proper, properly.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • Hom.Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
  • K. Á.Kristinn-réttr Árna biskups. (B. III.)
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)