Auðna

Significato della parola Old Norse "auðna"

Come definito dal dizionario Old Norse to English di Cleasby & Vigfusson:

La parola Old Norse auðna può significare:auðna

auðna

1. u, f. desolation, Sd. 179, bad reading.

auðna

2. u, f. [auðit], fortune, and then, like αισα, good luck, one’s good star, happiness, (cp. heill, hamingja, gæfa, all of them feminines,—good luck personified as a female guardian), in the phrase, a. ræðr, rules; auðna mun því ráða, Fate must settle that, Nj. 46, Lv. 65; ræðr a. lífi (a proverb), Orkn. 28; arka at auðnu (or perh. better dat. from auðinn), v. arka, Nj. 185, v. 1.; at auðnu, adv. prosperously, Sl. 25; blanda úgiptu við a., Fms. ii. 61; með auðnu þeirri at þorkatli var lengra lífs auðit, by that good fortune which destined Thorkel for a longer life, Orkn. 18 (50). cp. the Craven word aund in the expression I’s aund to’ot, ‘I am ordained to it, it is my fate.’

auðna

COMPDS: auðnulauss, auðnuleysi, auðnuleysingi, auðmimaðr, auðnusamliga.

auðna

3. að, impers. to be ordained by fate; ef honum auðnaði eigi aptr at koma, if it was not ordained by fate that he should come back, Fms. ix. 350; sem auðnar, as luck decides, Fb. i. 160, Fas. iii. 601, Lv. 30: with gen., ef Guð vill at þess auðni, that it shall succeed, Bs. i. 159, v. 1., þat is less correct: now freq. in a dep. form, e-m auðnast, one is successful, with following infin.

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