eldi
nafnorðhvorugkyn
(elþi, ), [ala], feeding, maintenance, i. ii 7, 143: the person maintained, 236: in usage of keeping another’s lambs, sheep, in winter, hence lambs-eldi, ‘lambs-keep,’ an obligation on every householder to feed a lamb for the priest in winter; elda-skildagi, the time when the lambs are sent back (middle of May); the phrase, skila úr eldum, to send back (lambs): eldis-hestr, a horse kept in stall, to útigangs-hestr.
2. a thing born; mislit eldi, 179. Gen. xxxi. 8; e. þat er fram fer af kviði konunnar, 656 B. 7; skaltú þiggja þat at Guði at hann gefi þér gott eldi, 3, 6, 19; komask frá e. sínu, to be delivered of a child, iii. 276; upp-eldi, breeding.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- mod.modern.
- esp.especially.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- opp.opposed.
- cp.compare.
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Mar.Maríu saga. (F. III.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)