jastr
nafnorð, hvorugkyn
or jast, n. [Engl. yeast; mid. H. G. jest and gest; Germ. gischt; Ivar Aasen jest and jestr; akin to ostr (q. v.) = a cheese]:—yeast, leaven; jastri, dat., Nikd.: jast-ostr, m. a kind of cheese, Fms. vi. (in a verse): jast-rín, f., poët. the ‘yeasting-stream’ = poetry, song, Kormak: in mod. usage jastr means the skin on curdled milk, whence jastr-súr, adj. curdled, acid, of milk, Lex. Poët.; hence the mod. hjastr, n. a frothy, light work; það er mesta hjastr.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- n.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Engl.
- English.
- mid. H. G.
- middle High German.
- Germ.
- German.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- dat.
- þágufall (e. dative)
- m.
- karlkyn (e. masculine)
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- poët.
- poetically.
- mod.
- modern.
- adj.
- lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.