ám-áttigr

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

ám-áttigr

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Definitions

1 ám-áttigr

adj. [cp. old Germ. amahtig = infirmus], contr. ámátkir, ámáttkar, etc., used in poetry as an epithet of witches and giants, prob. in the same sense as ámátligr, Vsp. 8, Hkv. Hjör. 17. Egilsson translates by praepotens, which seems scarcely right.

Runic Inscription

ᛅᛘ-ᛅᛏᛏᛁᚴᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

adj: adjective.
adj.: adjective.
ch: chapter.
contr.: contracted.
cp: compare.
cp.: compare.
etc.: et cetera.
Germ: German.
Germ.: German.
m.: masculine.
p.: page.
prob: probable, probably.
prob.: probable, probably.
transl: translation, translated.
v.: vide, verb.

Works & Authors

Hkv.: Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
Vsp.: Völuspá. (A. I.)

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