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einn

lýsingarorð
, einir, einn, but also einan, in the sense al-einan ; [ εἱς, εν; ūnus, and early oinos; ains; ân; one, in E. like stone, bone; ane; en; een]:—one.
A. Cardinal number, one; einn, tveir, þrír …, to báðir, fleiri, ; einum eðr fleirum, i. 108; eina sök eðr fleiri, 78; unnu báðir eins verk, i. 515; einum ok einum, one by one, ii. 252; tveir menn veðmæltu um einn grip, i. 412.
2. in old poems it is used as an ordinal number; Urð hétu eina, aðra Verðandi, 20; segðu þat it eina …, to þat it annat, 20; hjálp heitir eitt, help ranks first, 147, 2; but this use is quite obsolete.3. with the notion of sameness, one and the same (unus et idem;) í einu húsi, in the same house, ii. 42; ein ero lög um, hvárt sem ero naut eðr sauðir, i. 422; allt á eina leið, all one way, ii. 315; til einnar gistingar báðir, vii. 274; í einu brjósti, 36; allr einn, the very same, 213.II. indefinite, a, an, a certain one; einn vetr, a winter, i. 57; einn dag, x. 11, i. 514; eitt kveld, 38; einn hinn versti maðr, 91; Breiðlingr einn, a man from Broaddale, ii. 249; einn vinr Þóris, a certain friend of Thorir, vi. 277: einn as the indefinite article is hardly found in old writers; and though it is in the Bible, sermons, hymns, , since the Reformation, it was no doubt borrowed from the German, and has never been naturalised.
β. about, before numbers; ein tvau hundruð vaðmála, about two hundred pieces, 30; einar fimm þúsudir, about three thousand, 111,—obsolete, in usage hérum-bil or the like.
III. alone, μόνος, solus, used both in and ; Guðrún skyldi ein ráða, 132; Hallr tók einn upp fang, 38; láta einan, to let alone; láttu mig Drottinn einan ekki, 34. 11; as a law term, to let one’s wife alone, þá lét hann eina Guðrúnu, x. 324 ( einlát); Gunnarr mundi vera einn heima, 113; sjá einn hlutr, that one thing only, 112; þau ein tíðendi (), only such news, 242.
β. if put after the noun, einn denotes, only, but, sheer, and is almost ; segja þetta prett einn, a mere trick, ii. 249; raufar einar, all in holes, 176; urðu borðin í blóði einu, the tables were bedabbled with blood all over, 270, 116; öll orðin at hvölum einum, all turned into whales, i. 372; gabb eitt ok háð, sheer mockery, 247; orð ein, mere words, 123; ígangs-klæði ein, 75; vin eitt, wine only, 19; heiptyrði ein, 9; hamingjur einar, 49; ofsamenn einir, 158; þá nótt eina, for that one night, i. 240: also after an , lítið eina, only a little, 177; þat eina, er hann ætti sjálfr, 47, v. 303; nema góðs eina, naught but good, 63; fátt eitt, few only, but few; vilt eitt, but what is agreeable, 125; mikit eitt skala manni gefa, a proverb, ‘small gifts shew great love,’ 51; sá einn, er …, he only, who …, 17; satt eitt, sooth only, 9; the sense differs according as the is placed before or after the noun, einn Guð, the one God; but, Guð einn, God only, none but God.
IV. in a distributive sense, single; ein gjöld, a single weregild, to tvenn, þrenn, fern, double, triple, quadruple, ii. 232; thus say, einir sokkar, skór, vetlingar, a pair of socks, shoes, gloves; einar brækr, a pair of breeches; also with nouns which have only , ein, tvenn, þrenn Jól, one, two, three Christmasses (Yules); einar (tvennar) dyrr, a single … door; eina Páska, one Easter.V. einna is used in an intensive sense; einna manna bezt, best of all single men, ix. 258; í mesta lagi einna manna, foremost of all single men, 65; fátt er svá einna hluta, at örvænt sé at hitti annat slíkt, 75.
β. , manna, hluta, or the like being omitted, einna becomes almost an adverbial phrase, by far, exceedingly; at engi viti einna miklogi görr (= einna manna), that no one (no single man) shall know it much better, i. 2; einna verst, by far the worst, 162, 38; einna sizt, by far the least, least of all, i. 37; einna mest verðr, 8; er einna var ríkastr, who was the mightiest of all, i. 297; engan rétt einna meir kunnan at göra (= einna rétta meir), 22; engi er einna hvatastr (= e. manna), there is none so mighty but be may find his match, 63: in usage einna, joined with a superlative, is used adverbially, e. beztr, e. fljótastr, the best, the fleetest, but in a somewhat depreciatory sense.
VI. used :
1. eins,
α. eins ok, as, as if; eins ok væri hann með öllu óttalauss, iii. 275; allt eins ok (just as) rakkar metja með tungu, 392.β. likewise, in the same way; mikill þorri var þat er þær sögðu eins báðar, () 320; this use of eins is very rare in old writers, but in use; in the spoken language at least ‘eins’ (= as) has almost replaced the old ‘sem.’γ. only; er ek hefi áðr spurn til eins, iv. 139 (rare).δ. at eins, only, but, i. 235; vel at eins, ironically, well enough, 248; eigi at eins, not only, i. 266; með sínum at eins kostnaði, vii. 184; því at eins, only in that case, 228; þar at eins, Ísl. ii. 400; allt eins, not the less for that, 216: in use, just as (vide allr A. V. 5).
2. at einu = at eins; údauðr at einu, 242; því at einu = því at eins, iv. 195; því at einu er rétt …, i. 164; svá at einu, id., 103; sá evkr syndir sínar at einu, he but adds to his sins, 157; allt at einu, all the same, Ísl. ii. 216, : af því einu, only because, 140.
B. Joined to another pronominal or :
I. einn hverr, , in old writers usually in two words and with a double declension (see below), but now and then (and in usage always) in a single word, einn being ; einhverja ( ), 30; einhverjum ( ), 122, x. 71; einhverjo héraði, 98, 2; einhverra (), iv. 75; einhverir ( ), viii. 202; einhver, einhverir, : the form eins-hverr is peculiar, keeping the through all the cases, einshverr, i. 6; einshverja, 156, 655 xxxii. 18, 135; einshverjum, 22, 442, 448; this form seems to be chiefly Norse, is very rare in old writers, and now quite obsolete; eitthvert, 73, or eitthvat, 442, the usage makes a distinction, and uses eitthvert only as , eitthvað as :
1. each one, each single one; maðr er einn hverr, 108; þær eru svá margar, at ein hver má vel endask, 414; ór þeirra fjórðungi sem ór einum hverjum öðrum, 5; skal einn hverr (each) þeirra nefna sér vátta, i. 74; jafnmikinn arf sem einn hverr (each) sona hans, ii. 77; fátt er svá herra einhverra hluta, of any single thing, iv. 175.
β. joined to a it strengthens the sense; ágætastr maðr einn hverr, one of the very first men, 282; vinsælastr höfðingi einhverr, highly popular, vii. 4; einhver drengilegust vörn, ix. 515.
2. in an indefinite sense, some, somebody, a certain one; eitthvert ríki, 350; eina hverja nótt, some night, 686 B. 4; eitthvert sinn, once, sometime, i. 77, 79; einhverju sinni, id., 2; einhvern dag, some day, v. 177, Ísl. ii. 212; eina hverja þessa tíð, about this time, i. 355; til einnar hverrar stefnu, to some meeting, i. 354; eins-hverja hluti, 156; með eins-hverjum sveini, 442; at ekki sé minna vert, at hlýða prests-messu nývígðs hinni fyrstu, heldr en biskups-messu einhverri, i. 131.
β. used as ; einn hverr várr búandanna, i. 34; einn hvern manna hans, 258; einhverr í hverjum dal, 258, 192.γ. einhver-staðar (eins-hver-staðar, vii. 84), somewhere, 130, iv. 57, 181.
II. einn-saman, ‘one together’ (vide einsamall), quite alone; maðrinn lifir ekki af einu-saman brauði, Matth. iv. 4; með einni-saman sinni sýn, með einni-saman sinni þefan, 93; ef útlegðir fara einar-saman, if it be solely a matter of outlay (fine), i. 103; ef þat færi eitt-saman, ii. 10: of a woman, vera eigi ein-saman, to be not alone, to be with a child, iii. 109.III. with other words; einir … ýmissir, ‘one and sundry;’ various, mixed, 88, 204; eina hluti ok ýmissa, i. 191.
β. hverr ok einn, ‘each and one,’ every one, 677. 1, i. 393, 492; fyrir hvern mun ok einn, i. 396.γ. einn ok sér-hverr, one and all.δ. einn sér, apart, for oneself, alone; Múspells-synir hafa einir sér fylking, 41; einn sér, sole, ii. 308; sér einir, ii. 53: singular, peculiar, ein var hón sér í lýðsku, 30.ε. sér-hverr, every one, : eins-konar, of one kind, 165; of a certain kind, a kind of: eins-kostar, particularly, Ísl. ii. 322, 81.ζ. né einn, not one, none; in old writers usually so, but now and then contracted neinn (), and in usage always so; né eina sekð, i. 136; né eitt úhreint, 409; né einu sinni, not once, xi. 13; né eins, not a single thing, 112; né eina herferð, vii. 28.η. fáir einir, only a few, in usage in one word, fáeinir, fáeinum, fáeinna: ein-stakr, single, : al-einn, alone, : ein-mana, ( μόνος): einum-megin, on one side, 248 (vide vegr).
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