höfuðstafr
nafnorðkarlkynhöfuð-stafr
, a ‘head-stave,’ head letter, capital, initial, used in this sense by Thorodd: but grammarians use it specially of the letters h, q, v, þ, which can stand only at the beginnings of syllables, (see Gramm. p. xv, col. 1 at the bottom; 165–171):—in prosody, the third of the alliterative letters (ljóðstafir) standing ‘ahead’ of the second verse line, the preceding two being called stuðlar; thus in ‘þá var grund groin | grænum lauki,’ the g in ‘grænum’ is a höfuðstafr, but in ‘grund’ and ‘gróin’ a stuðill, 120: in usage höfuðstafir in is used of all the alliterative letters, skáldskapr þinn er skothent klúðr | skakk-settum höfuðstöfum með,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gramm.grammar.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- mod.modern.
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- SkáldaSkálda. (H. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Jón Þorl.Jón Þorláksson.