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sund

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1. ( svumd), [from svimma, dropping the v and changing m into n]:—a swimming; koma á sund, 447; kasta sér á sund. 219; á sundi, swimming, 123, 130; með sundi, by way of swimming, i. 112, 261, passim, see 40, 80, 38, 10, 33, 40; also the story of Heming. Swimming was a favourite sport, the antagonists trying to duck one another; ‘sund’ is one of the sports in king Harold’s verses,—hetik sund numit stundum, vi. 170.B. : sundfarar, sundfjöðr, sundfæri, sundfærr, sundföt, sundhreifi, sundíþróttir, sundlaug, sundleikar, sundlæti, sundmagi, sundmóðr.
2. [quite a different word from the preceding, derived from sundr]:— that which sunders, a sound, strait, narrow passage, channel, of water, 8, iv. 41; var þar sund í milli eyjanna, 218; í fjorðum eðr í sundum, ii. 385; Þuríðr sunda-fyllir, hóu seiddi til þess í hallæri á Hálogalandi at hvert sund var fullt af fiskum, 147: so in the saying, nú eru lokin sund öll, all passages were stopped, all hope gone, i. 251: in local names, Eyrar-sund, Njörfa-s., Stokk-s., and in countless other compd names, , : also a lane, alley, búðar-sund, the lane between two booths; bæjar-sund, the lane between two walls; í sundinu milli húsanna, in the lane between the houses, in usage: so also, flóa-sund, holta-sund, mýrar-sund, strips of fen between hillocks.2. a defile, hence Mjó-syndi, ; var sund breitt (a broad channel) miilum knarranna ok skeiðanna, v. 169. sunda-leið, the ‘sound-passage,’ the coarse through the islands along the coast of Norway, 476, viii. 334.
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  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • qs.quasi.
  • ch.chapter.
  • cp.compare.
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  • prop.proper, properly.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • mod.modern.
  • q. v.quod vide.
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
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