Yrða

fitja

sagnorð
að, [ fettan, to fit], to web, knit; hann lét fitja saman fingrna, he webbed the fingers together, like the foot of a duck or seal, in order to swim better, 148.
β. fitja upp sokk, , to ‘cast on’ a sock or the like, make the first stitches in knitting it: , fitja upp á nef sér, to knit or screw up the nose in anger, ‘slaa kröller paa næsen;’ so in ‘to knit the brows.’
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • cp.compare.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • i. e.id est.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)