Þveit
Dizionario Old Norse - þveit
Significato della parola Old Norse "þveit"
Come definito dal dizionario Old Norse to English di Cleasby & Vigfusson:
La parola Old Norse þveit può significare:þveit
- þveit
- f., or þveiti, n. [the root is found in A. S. þwîtan, pret. þwât = to chop; North. E. thwaite; Chaucer to thwite; cp. also Dutch duit, whence Engl. doit, Germ. deut, Dan. döit = a bit]:—prop. a ‘cut-off piece,’ but occurs only in special usages:
- þveit
- 1. a piece of land, paddock, parcel of land, it seems orig. to have been used of an outlying cottage with its paddock; þær jarðir allar, bú ok þveiti, all the estates, manor and ‘thwaite,’ where bú and þveiti are opp. to one another, D. n. ii. 81; séttungs þ., áttungs-þ., id.; öng-þveiti, a narrow lane, strait.
- þveit
- 2. freq. in local names in Norway and Denmark, tvæt, Dan. tvæde (whence Dan. Tvæde as a pr. name); and in North. E. Orma-thwaite, Braith-thwaite, Lang-thwaite, and so on, names implying Danish colonisation: Þveit, Þveitar, f., Þveitin, n., Þveitini (qS. Þveit-vin), Þveitar-ruð, n., Þveitar-garðr, m., Þveitar-fjall, n., D. n. passim; in Icel. local names it never occurs, and is there quite an obsolete word.
- þveit
- II. a unit of weight; þveiti mjöls, Boldt; þveitis-leiga, a rent amounting to a þ.; þveitis-ból, a farm of the value or the rent of a þ.; tveggja þveitna (thus a gen. pl. as if from þveita) toll, þveitis toll, D. n. iii. 465; hálf þveit smœrs, Boldt 114.
- þveit
- III. [Dutch duit, etc.], a kind of small coin, a doit, a subdivision of an ounce (= a fraction, cut-off piece); in weregild the baugþak was counted thus, sex aurar ok þveiti átta ens fimta tigar, i. e. six ounces and forty-eight doits; hálf mörk ok þveiti tvau ens fjórða tegar, a half mark and thirty-two doits; þrír aurar ok þveiti tuttugu ok fjögur, three ounces and twenty-four doits; tveir aurar ok þveiti sextan, two ounces and sixteen doits, Grág. (Kb.) i. 193; ef maðr stelr minna enn þveiti þá skal heita hvinn, n. G. l. i. 253, cp. B. K. 8–11, 28, 29; þar eru þveiti tuttugu ok þrjú at höfuðbaugi, … átta þveiti, ok þriðjungr ens fimta þveitis, ok hálft fjórða þveiti ok þriðjungr ens þriðja þveitis ok hálft annat þveiti, Grág. (Kb.) i. 202.
Possibile iscrizione runica in Fuþark recente:ᚦᚢᛁᛁᛏ
Le rune Fuþark recenti sono state utilizzate dal 8° al 12° secolo in Scandinavia e nei loro insediamenti all'estero
Abbreviazioni usate:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.
- compare.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- North. E.
- Northern English.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- pret.
- preterite.
- S.
- Saga.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- opp.
- opposed.
- þ.
- þáttr.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- pr.
- proper, properly.
- qs.
- quasi.
- gen.
- genitive.
- pl.
- plural.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- i. e.
- id est.
- L.
- Linnæus.
Opere & Autori citati:
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Boldt
- Boldt. (J. II.)
- B. K.
- Björgynjar Kálfskinn. (J. II.)
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Kb.
- Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)