mjöt
nafnorðkvenkyn
[ mitaþs = μέτρον; mez; masz]:—a measure; kann ek mála mjöt, I know the measure of words, how to make a speech, 20: þess kann maðr mjöt, a man knows the measure of that, Bugge’s 60 (see foot-note as to the reading in Reg.); mjötuðr, from the preceding poem, seems to have been in the transcriber’s mind, and so he first wrote mjotvþc and then dotted the v, denoting that the last three letters were to be struck out. A mjotuð would, it is true, agree with the mitaþs, but it does not suit the rhythm, in which a monosyllable is required.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- Germ.German.
- Cod.Codex.
- fem.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Goth.Gothic.
- Höfuðl.Höfuðlausn. (A. III.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)