ginn-
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or perhaps better gínn-, [ gin or ginn = vast, wide; it seems however better to derive it from the verb beginnan, begin, a word used in all Teutonic languages, except the old Scandinavian tongue, where it is unknown, unless in this mythological prefix]:—only used as a prefix:
I. in old words, great, holy: ginn-heilög ( ) goð, the most holy gods, the supreme gods, as opposed to Asir and Vanir, the lower gods, passim: ginn-regin, ‘magna numina,’ 143, 13, in the same sense as ginnheilög goð in ; in 4 to tívar (dii); in goð and ginnregin are distinguished, also 79: ginnungar, , seems used in the same sense as ginnregin, whence Ginnunga-gap, chaos, the formless void, in which abode the supreme powers, before the creation, , : later, in the 11th century, the sea between Greenland and America was called Ginnunga-gap, 295: Ginnunga-himin, of the heavenly vault of Ginnunga-gap, 5: Ginnunga-vé, the holy places of the Ginnungar, the universe, 15: Ginnarr (Ginnir), , is a name of Odin, = aetherius, and also used of the eagle, the falcon.II. in an intensive sense only in poets; ginn-viti, a, a large fire, Sighvat; perhaps also we may read, 5, ginn-fasti, a, a great fire in a smithy, for gim fasti.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- cp.compare.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- mythol.mythology, mythologically.
- adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- opp.opposed.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- prop.proper, properly.
- Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Haustl.Haustlöng. (A. I.)
- Hým.Hýmis-kviða. (A. I.)
- Alm.Alvís-mál. (A. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- A. A.Antiquitates Americanae. (E. II.)
- Vkv.Völundar-kviða. (A. II.)