Gipta

Signification du mot vieux norrois "gipta"

Comme défini par le dictionnaire vieux norrois-anglais de Cleasby & Vigfusson :

Le mot vieux norrois gipta peut signifier :gipta

gipta

1. u, f. [A. S. gifeðe = fatum, Beowulf], good luck, Ld. 104, Nj. 17, FmS. vi. 299, FS. 27, 97, Stj. 198, passim; cp. auðna, hamingja.

gipta

COMPDS: giptudrjúgr, giptufátt, giptuliga, giptuligr, giptumaðr, giptumunr, gipturáð, giptusamliga, giptusamligr, giptuskortr, giptutómr, giptuvænligr.

gipta

II. marriage (rare); giptu-mál, n. a marriage, Landn. 110 (v. l. in the MS. Melabók).

gipta

2. t, to give a woman in marriage; fyrr skulu grónir grautardílarnir á hálsi þér, en ek muna gipta þér systur mína, Eb. 210; gipti Höskuldr Gró systur sina, Ld. 24, Nj. 17, Eg. 5, Rm. 20, 37, passim.

gipta

II. reflex, to marry, of both man and wife; in old writers the man ‘kvángask,’ i. e. takes a wife, the woman is ‘gipt,’ i. e. given away, FmS. ix. 269, Ld. 128 passim; in the course of time the primitive sense of the word was lost, and it came to mean to marry: the saying, það grær áðr en þú giptist, i. e. never mind, it will be healed before thou marriest, addressed to a boy or girl about to cry for a slight hurt.

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