gaddr
nafnorð, karlkyn
Merkingar
m. [Ulf. gads = κέντρον, 1 Cor. xv. 55, 56; A. S. gadu; Engl. gad, goad; Swed. gadd]:—a goad, spike, Str. 77, Gísl. 159 (on a sword’s hilt); gadda-kylfa, u, f. a ‘gad-club,’ club with spikes, Fms. iii. 329; gadd-hjalt, n. a ‘gad-hilt,’ hilt studded with nails, Eb. 36 new Ed., Gísl. 159, Fas. iii. 288, cp. Worsaae 494, 495, as compared with 330: metaph. phrase, var mjök í gadda slegit, ‘twas all but fixed with nails, i. e. settled, Nj. 280.
- II.
a sting, Al. 168; (cp. Engl. gad-fly.)
- III.
perhaps a different root, hard snow, also spelt galdr (Fms. viii. 413, v. l., cp. gald, Ivar Aasen); the phrase, troða gadd, to tread the snow down hard, Fms. vii. 324, viii. 413, ix. 364, 490; en er Birkibeinar vóru komnir upp á galdinn hjá þeim, Fb. ii. 688: even used as neut., gaddit, Fms. viii. l. c. (in a vellum MS.); gaddit. id. (also vellum MS.); hence gadd-frosinn, part. hard-frozen; gadd-hestr, m. a jade turned out in the snow.
- IV.
a ‘gad-tooth,’ a disease in cattle, one or more grinders growing out so as to prevent the animal from feeding, described in Fél. xiv. note 250; gadd-jaxl, m. a ‘gad-grinder.’
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- m.
- karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- n.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Ed.
- edition, editions, edited.
- cp.
- compare.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- i. e.
- id est.
- v. l.
- varia lectio.
- neut.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- MS.
- manuscript, manuscripts.
- part.
- lýsingarháttur (e. participle)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Str.
- Strengleikar. (G. II.)
- Gísl.
- Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)
- Al.
- Alexanders saga. (G. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók. (E. I.)
- Fél.
- Félags-rit.