Yrða

gipta

nafnorðkvenkyn
1. u, [ gifeðe = fatum, Beowulf], good luck, 104, 17, vi. 299, 27, 97, 198, passim; auðna, hamingja.
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II. marriage (rare); giptu-mál, a marriage, 110 ( in the Melabók).
2. t, to give a woman in marriage; fyrr skulu grónir grautardílarnir á hálsi þér, en ek muna gipta þér systur mína, 210; gipti Höskuldr Gró systur sina, 24, 17, 5, 20, 37, passim.
II. reflex, to marry, of both man and wife; in old writers the man ‘kvángask,’ takes a wife, the woman is ‘gipt,’ given away, ix. 269, 128 passim; in the course of time the primitive sense of the word was lost, and it came to mean to marry: the saying, það grær áðr en þú giptist, never mind, it will be healed before thou marriest, addressed to a boy or girl about to cry for a slight hurt.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • cp.compare.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • v. l.varia lectio.
  • MS.manuscript, manuscripts.
  • i. e.id est.
  • Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
  • Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Eb.Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
  • Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
  • Rm.Rígsmál. (A. II.)