Yrða

erfiði

nafnorðhvorugkyn
or erviði (ærfaði, i. 391; ærfuð, id. I. 10), [ arbaiþs = κόπος; earfoð; arapeit; arbeit, which shews that arbeide and arbete are borrowed from the ; lost in The etymology of this word is uncertain; the notion is to derive it from er- and viða = vinna, to work, but it is scarcely right; Grimm, arbeit, suggests it to be akin to labor; Max Müller refers it to the root AR, to plough, Science of Language, p. 258, 3rd ; but arfiði (, p. 41) instead of erviði is a fictitious form, and the statement that in old Norse or it means ploughing rests only on a fancy of old (Dict. ), to which he was probably led by the similarity between arvum to and arbeit, arbeide: in fact the , ancient or modern, conveys no such notion; even in the old heathen poems the word is used exactly in the present sense, which again is the same as in ]:—toil, labour, and toil, trouble; in the phrase, e. en eigi eyrendi, toil but no errand, lost labour, 10, 11, 5; víl ok e., toil and trouble (of travelling), 58, 163; kváðusk hafa haft mikit e. ok öngu á leið komið, v. 21, 645. 58, 235, ,
2. distress, suffering; drýgja e., to ‘dree’ distress, 35 (heathen poem),—in i. 391 this phrase is used of a priest officiating; hungr, þorsti, e., 160: in , meðr mörgum erfiðum er á hana leggjask, 51: an old poet (Arnor) calls the heaven the erfiði of the dwarfs, vide dvergr. In the erfiði is often used in the very same passages as in , thus—yðvart e. er eigi ónýtt í Drottni, 1 Cor. xv. 58; í erfiði, í vökum, í föstu, 2 Cor. vi. 5; og hrósum oss eigi tram yfir mælingu í annarlegu erfiði, x. 15; og vort e. yrði til ónýtis, 1 Thess. iii. 5,
β. asthma, difficulty in breathing; brjóst-erfiði, heavy breathing.
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  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
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  • O. H. G.Old High German.
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