Fær
Altnordisches Wörterbuch - fær
Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "fær"
Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:
- fær
- f. a sheep; in Swed.-Dan. faar and fär are the usual words for sheep; but in Icel. it is almost unknown; it occurs in Skálda 162; also now and then in the compd fær-sauðr, m., spelt fjar-sauðr, Tistr. 4 (prop. a ‘sheep-sheep,’ sauðr being the common Icel. word for sheep), Stj. 45, 177, 235, n. G. l. i. 75, K. Þ. K. 130; from fær is also derived the name Fær-eyjar, f. pl. the Faroe Islands (Sheep-islands); Fær-eyskr, adj., and Fær-eyingar, m. pl. the Faroe Islanders; described by Dicuil as plenae innumerabilibus ovibus, p. 30 (Ed. 1807): fær is a South-Scandin. word, and seems to be formed from the gen. of fé (fjár).
Mögliche Runeninschrift im Jüngeren Futhark:ᚠᛅᚱ
Jüngere Futhark-Runen wurden vom 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert in Skandinavien und ihren überseeischen Siedlungen verwendet
Verwendete Abkürzungen:
- adj.
- adjective.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- f.
- feminine.
- gen.
- genitive.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- Scandin.
- Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Zitierte Werke & Autoren:
- K. Þ. K.
- Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Skálda
- Skálda. (H. I.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)