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deyja

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dó, 2nd dótt, later dóst, dó, dóu; dáinn; dey, 2nd deyr (in familiar use deyrð): dæi; in the south of people say dæði, inserting a spurious ð; old poems with suffix, deyr-at, dó-at; a weak form deyði (died) occurs in the 1400–1430, and was much used in biographies of later centuries, but is borrowed from döde, unclassical and unknown in the spoken tongue; always say dó: [the root is akin to dá, , θάνατος, ; uses a divans, by which he sometimes renders the θνητός, φθαρτός; undivans = αθάνατος, αφθαρτος; undivanei = αθανασία; but the θνήσκειν he renders not by divan but by ga-sviltan; uses dôjan, but rarely; the seems not to know the word, but uses sviltan, whereas in svelta means to starve, die of hanger; the perhaps borrowed the verb to die from the , whereas to starve (used by Chaucer = sterben) now means to die of hunger or cold]:—to die: deyr fé, deyja frændr, 76; hann dó af eitri, 623. 27; er þat sögn manna, af hón hafi af því dáit, 164; hann dó ór sárum, 120; þeir dó allir, 294; dó þar undir ellifu naut, i. 320; hann dó litlu síðarr, i. 108; þat áttu eptir sem erfiðast er, ok þat er at d., 56: betra er at d. með sæmð en lifa með skömm, 28: the proverb, deyja verðr hverr inn sinn, omnes una manet nox: the phrase, á deyjanda degi, 106, ii. 207, iii. 50: , dauða deyja, Gen. iii. 3, Matth. xv. 4, ‘let him die the death,’ A. V.; d. góðum, illum dauða, to die a good, bad death, : it sometimes has in it a curious sense of motion, hann kaus at d. í Mælifell, 192; þeir Selþórir frændr dó í Þórisbjörg, 78; trúði at hann mundi deyja í fjallit, 7 new , , where it means to die ( pass by death) into the fell, they believed that after death they would pass into the fell; hinnig deyja ór Helju halir, 43.
β. to die, of a limb, Pr. 239.γ. of inanimate things; dáinn arfr, a law phrase, a dead inheritance, left to the heir, 263; hence dánar-fé, dánar-arfr,
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