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egg

nafnorðhvorugkyn
1. [ äg; egg; ägg; æg; ei], an egg, 152, ii. 346; arnar-e., æðar-e., álptar-e., hrafns-e., dúfu-e., kriu-e., , an eagle’s egg, eider duck’s, swan’s, raven’s, dove’s, ; also, höggorms egg, a snake’s egg: eggja-hvíta, the white of an egg: eggja-rauða, or eggja-blómi, the yolk; verpa eggjum, to lay eggs; liggja á eggjum, to sit on eggs, brood; koma, skríða ór eggi, of the young, to come out of the egg, 4 (in a verse): an egg is glænýtt fresh, stropað half-hatched, ungað hatched; vind-egg, a wind-egg, addled egg; fúl-egg, a rotten egg; vera lostinn fúlu eggi, proverb of a sad and sulky looking fellow that looks as if one had pelted him with rotten eggs, 39 (in a verse); fullt hús matar og finnast hvergi dyrnar á, a riddle describing an egg; but fullt hús drykkjar og finnast hvergi dyrnar á, the berry: eggja-fata, a bucket in which to gather eggs: eggja-kaka, an ‘egg-cake,’ omelet: eggja-leit, a gathering of eggs, 2. , and eggjar, old eggju, egg; [ acies; ecg; edge; eggja; ecka, ecke, is the same word, although altered in sense; ägg; æg]:—an edge, 181, 183, 136: the phrase, með oddi ok eggju, with point and edge, by force of arms, with might and main, 33, ii. 13, 149, 625. 34; oddr ok egg, ‘cut and thrust,’ 33; drepa í egg, to blunt: as the old swords of the Scandinavians were double-edged (only the sax had a single edge), egg is used in ; takattu á eggjum, eitr er í báðum, touch not the edges, poison is in both of them, i. 522 (in a verse); the phrase, deyfa eggjar, vide deyfa: the sword is in poetry called eggjum-skarpr, with sharp edges; and the blade, tongue of the hilt, ; sverðs-eggjar, sword edges; knífs-egg, öxar-egg, the edge of a knife, axe.2. , fjalls-egg, the ridge of a mountain, ii. 44; reisa á egg, to set (a stone) on its edge, to the flat side, 40: eggja-broddr, an edged spike, x. 355.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • Germ.German.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • sing.eintala (e. singular)
  • nom.nefnifall (e. nominative)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • dat.þágufall (e. dative)
  • mod.modern.
  • Lat.Latin.
  • Hel.Heliand.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • i. e.id est.
  • ch.chapter.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • opp.opposed.
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  • Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
  • Fagrsk.Fagrskinna. (K. I.)
  • Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
  • Hom.Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
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