húm
nafnorðhvorugkyn
, the sea, from its dusky colour; salt húm, the salt sea, , (Gl.), also in
II. in prose, twilight, dusk; um kveldit í húmi, iii. 333; en húm var á mikit, ii. 284, (in a verse); í húminu, in the dusk of evening, 138, Thom. 308: of the grey dusk in the morning, vi. 284; hence comes the phrase, að koma, fara í humótt (hámóti) á eptir, to lag behind, sneak behind another. humóttu-legr, sneaking and ashamed.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- poët.poetically.
- compds.samsett orð (e. compounds)
- prob.probably.
- mod.modern.
- adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)