Yrða

fiskr

nafnorðkarlkyn
[ piscis; fisks; fisc; fish; fisch; Swed.-Dan. fisk]
I. a fish, of both sea and fresh-water fish, cod, trout, salmon are often κατ ἐξ. called ‘fish,’ 180, ii. 385; var þar undir nógr, 169; at miði því er þik man aldri fisk bresta, id.; þar var hvert vatn fullt af fiskum, 134; fugla ok fiska, ii. 345, ii. 165, passim; of the zodiacal fishes, 1812. 17:—different kind of fish, heilagr fiskr ( heilag-fiski), halibut, , i. 365; flatr , id., 35; hval-f., a ‘whale fish;’ beit-f. (), bait fish; ill-fiskar, ill or evil fishes, sharks; skel-f., shell fish; blautr , fresh fish, iii. 2, 5; skarpr , dried fish, i. 209, 365, 367, in usage harðr fiskr; freð-f. = frer-f., frozen fish, preserved by being frozen: as to fishing vide 17 , ii. 2, 87, 87, 11, , 11, 40, 2. 5, 12, 58, 9, Rafn S. 10, and passim in the Miracle-books: the section of law regarding this important branch of livelihood in Iceland is wanting in the present Grágás, proving that this collection is not complete, but in a fragmentary state.
β. the flesh of a fish, for in the word flesh can only be used of a land-animal; thus, hvítr á fiskinn, having white flesh.
II. , kinn-fiskar, the flesh on the cheeks (of a man); kinnfiska-soginn, with sunken cheeks: the phrase, e-m vex fiskr um hrygg, one’s back gains muscle, one gains strength: fjör-fiskr, live fish, a phrase for spasms of the muscles, the ‘growing pains’ common in children,—the fjör-fiskr is said to bound or leap (sprikla), which is regarded as a sign of good health and growth.III. fish were used as units of value, each = half an ell’s worth (vide alin), in southern and Western , fiskvirði; hence the standing phrase in the title-page of books of later times, ‘charge so many fishes.’: fiskaá, fiskaferð, fiskakaup, fiskakyn, fiskamerki, fiskapollr, fiskaskip, fiskastöð, fiskastöng, fiskatíund, fiska-tollr, fiska-ver, vide fiski-, 3, iv. 330, and endless other
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  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Lat.Latin.
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • Germ.German.
  • esp.especially.
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
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