Yrða

deigja

nafnorðkvenkyn
1. u, a dairy-maid; this word is the humble mother of the lady, la-dy (vide p. 76. brauð). hlæf-dige = bread-maid; Norse bú-deigja (). Chaucer’s dey (a maner dey), and West day- (or dey-) house, a dairy. The deigja in old Norse farms was the chief maid, but still a bondwoman, i. 70, i. 510; öll ertú d. dritin. 56, where it is curiously enough addressed to the daughter of Byggvir (bygg = barley), a handmaid of the gods; deigja seems to mean a baker-woman, and the word no doubt is akin to deig, dough, and deigan, to knead, the same person being originally both dairy-woman and baker to the farm: in the word is never used, but it survives in the Norse bu-deia, sæter-deia, agtar-deia, reid-deia (), and deja, = a dairy-maid.2. u, wetness, dump.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • Engl.English.
  • qs.quasi.
  • s. v.sub voce.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • cp.compare.
  • q. v.quod vide.
  • Goth.Gothic.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
  • H. E.Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
  • Ls.Loka-senna. (A. I.)
  • Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.