már1
nafnorðkarlkyn
, más, mávi or máfi, mávar; in usage sounded in erroneously máfr, máfs; [ meaw; mew; möve; maage]:—a sea-mew, gull (larus), (Gl.), in usage; see also , where the word occurs; hvít-máfr, the common gull; grá-máfr, the grey gull, larus glaucus: in poetry the sea is máva-röst; má-grund, má-ferill, má-skeið, the land, road of the sea-mews, : crows are ben-már, blóð-már; the raven is Yggjar-már, Odin’s mew, and so on.
II. as a name, : in local names, Máfa-hlíð, whence Máf-hlíðingar, the men of M.; Máfhlíðinga-vísur, the verses of the men of M., (): más-ungi ( máfs-ungi); also má-skari ()
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- dat.þágufall (e. dative)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- mod.modern.
- nom.nefnifall (e. nominative)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Dan.Danish.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- pr.proper, properly.
- proncd.pronounced.
- q. v.quod vide.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Ht.Hátta-tal. (C. I.)