mæna
sagnorð
sjá einnig mæna nafnorð, kvenkyn
Merkingar
i. e. mœna, d, to provide with a mænir, to roof; leka möndi húsit ef ekki mœndi smiðrinn, Skálda (Thorodd) 163, D. N. v. 637.
- 2.
to reach or jut out, project, Lat. eminere; þeir sáu hrauka … ok mændu upp ór kollarnir (viz. out of the fog), Sturl. i. 179; mændu þeir aptr (they turned back, prob. erroneous = vendu) en Hákon bar í haf, Fms. vi. 249.
- II.
to gaze, look (stretching out the neck), esp. with the notion of supplication; mæna á e-n. mæna vonar-augum, freq. in mod. usage, where the ancients said kaga, q. v.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- i. e.
- id est.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- viz.
- namely.
- prob.
- probably.
- esp.
- especially.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
Tilvitnuð rit
- Skálda
- Skálda. (H. I.)
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)