1 GEIT
f., gen. geitar, pl. geitr, [Goth. gaitei; A. S. gât; Engl. goat; Germ. geiz; Swed. get; Dan. geed; Lat. hoedus]:—a she-goat (the he-goat is hafr), Grág. i. 418, 503, Hkv. 1. 42, 2. 35, Skm. 35, Rm. 12, Gm. 25, Edda 24, 46, passim; stein-geit, the steinbock or wild goat.
2 GEIT
2. metaph. a coward (cp. Engl. hare); hann er mesta geit, he is a ‘frightened hare,’ cp. Grett. ch. 8, Valla L. 212:—this metaphor is taken from the skógar-geit or roebuck, Fms. ii. 309, Hkv. 2. 35.
3 GEIT
COMPDS: geitarhár, geitarhorn, geitarhugr, geitahús, geitakúgildi, geitarskegg, geitasveinn, geitbelgr, geitbjálfi, geitfé, geithéðinn, geitsauðr, geitskinn, geitstaka.
4 GEIT
II. botan., geitna-njóli, a, m. aegopodium. geitna-skóf, n. lichen proboscideus, Hjalt. geit-skór, m. ‘goat-shoe,’ the willow-weed, epilobium, Ivar Aasen: a nickname, Íb. ch. 2.
5 GEIT
III. medic. geitr, only in pl., scurvy in the head from vermin, Fas. i. 9.