fluga
nafnorðkvenkyn
u. , flugna, a fly, gnat, moth, 23, 91, Pr. 474, 70, 20; gesta-fluga, a moth; mý-f., a gnat; bý-f., a bee; randa-f., a wasp; hunangs-f., a honey-fly, a kind of bee; mel-f., a clothes-moth; þev-f., a kind of tipula: myki-f., a dung-fly: maðka-f., a maggot-fly, all three musca, , vide Eggert 688: the phrase, eins og fluga, swift as a fly. Wizards were said to bewitch flies and send them to kill their enemies (vide galdra-fluga, gand-fluga), hence the phrase, gína við flugu, or taka flugu, to swallow the fly or to carry the fly, to be the tool of another man, in a wicked and fatal business, 164; ef Hallgerðr kemr annarri flugu í munn þér, if H. puts another fly in thy mouth, makes thee to carry another lie, 64; þeir gina við þessi flugu, 9; era mínligt flugu at gína, ‘tis not ‘mine-like’ to open the mouth for flies, lies and slander, (in a verse of the year 998); hann fær komit þeirri flugu í munn eins skiptings, xi. 445.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- etc.et cetera.
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