fura
nafnorð, kvenkyn
u, f. [Engl. fir; Germ. föhre; mod. Norse furu; Dan. för]:—fir, Lat. pinus, Edda (Gl.); fura vex, wide as the fir grows, Grág. ii. 170, Vkv. 9; ships were built of fir-timber, hence the allit. phrase, á fljótandi furu, on a floating fir, on hoard ship, Grág. i. 46: in poetry freq. = a ship, like Lat. abies, Lex. Poët.
COMPDS:
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Engl.
- English.
- Germ.
- German.
- mod.
- modern.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- COMPDS
- samsett orð (e. compounds)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Vkv.
- Völundar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.