fugl
nafnorðkarlkyn
, an older form fogl is usual in early : fugls, 13; both forms foglar and fuglar in 7, but in old poets fogl is required by the rhyme,—smoglir ástar foglar, Sighvat: [ fugls = πετεινόν; fugol; fowl; vogel; fogel; fugl]:—a fowl, bird; hart sem fugl flygi, 144, passim; the saying, skjóta verðr til fugls áðr fái, 346, 31: a nautical term, hafa fugl af landi, to ‘have fowl off land’ to stand in within range of water-fowl, be from fifty to seventy miles off land; þeir höfðn fogl af Írlandi, i. 656: fowl, síðan samnaðisk fogl í evna, 350; geir-fugl, the awk, alca impennis; æðar-f., the eider-duck: hræ-f., a bird of prey: fit-f., ; smá-fuglar, small fowl, little birds, 7: söng-f., singing birds; snæ-f., snow-fowl; bjarg-f., cliff-fowl, sea gulls,
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- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- MSS.manuscript, manuscripts.
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Swed.Swedish.
- Dan.Danish.
- cp.compare.
- i. e.id est.
- collect.collective.
- q. v.quod vide.
- etc.et cetera.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- pr.proper, properly.
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- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
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- Mirm.Mirmants saga. (G. II.)
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