Definiciones
Definiciones
1 kvika
1. u, f. the quick under the nail or under a horse’s hoof, Bs. ii. 184, freq. in mod. usage.
2 kvika
II. fermentation, swelling, of a fluid; eitr-kvikja, q. v.; ok af þeim kviku dropum kviknaði ok varð maims líkandi, Edda 4; see kvikva.
3 kvika
2. að, to move, stir; hann kvikar ekki; this verb is freq. in mod. usage, but is not recorded in old writers.
4 kvika
3. u, f. obstructions of the ducts in the nose, which used to be thought to be quick (i. e. live) worms; Vespasianus hafði kvikur í nösum, en þat mein kalla þeir ‘vespas,’ því var hann kallaðr Vespasianus, V. had ‘worms in the nose,’ which disease they call vespas, therefore he was called V. (sic), Post. (Unger) 155.
Inscripción rúnica
Inscripción rúnica
kvika
El texto rúnico anterior representa la palabra nórdica antigua "kvika" como podría aparecer en inscripciones rúnicas de la Era Vikinga (c. 800-1100 d.C.).