sneis
nafnorðkvenkyn
[ snâs = a spit; sneis = a twig], a skewer, by which a long sausage is skewered into a coil; Hann spurði hvar Ögmundr sneis væri?—Answer, þat er likara at þú hittir oddinn á hjalta-sneisinni (the hilt-spit, the sword’s blade) áðr sjá. dagr líðr af, i. 568; dó Bersi þar, ok fann svá sneis, er hann leitaði um daginn, 569 (a pun, for the man Ogmund was surnamed sneis); ek þóttumk hafa mörbjúga-hlut í hendi, ok var af sneisar-haldit, a sausage from which the ‘spit-hold’ had been torn off, ii. 132; fá mér annat vápn sterkara, ok skal mér ekki sneis þessi, this switch! 118 (but in the interpolated )
II. in snees, [ snâs], means twenty, from the use of tallies to score by.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- i. e.id est.
- mod.modern.
- part.lýsingarháttur (e. participle)
- Dan.Danish.
- prob.probably.
- Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Sd.Svarfdæla saga. (D. II.)