Kvika

Znaczenie staronordyjskiego słowa "kvika"

Zgodnie z definicją słownika Cleasby & Vigfusson z języka staronordyjskiego na angielski:

Staronordyjskie słowo kvika może oznaczać:kvika

kvika

1. u, f. the quick under the nail or under a horse’s hoof, Bs. ii. 184, freq. in mod. usage.

kvika

II. fermentation, swelling, of a fluid; eitr-kvikja, q. v.; ok af þeim kviku dropum kviknaði ok varð maims líkandi, Edda 4; see kvikva.

kvika

2. að, to move, stir; hann kvikar ekki; this verb is freq. in mod. usage, but is not recorded in old writers.

kvika

3. u, f. obstructions of the ducts in the nose, which used to be thought to be quick (i. e. live) worms; Vespasianus hafði kvikur í nösum, en þat mein kalla þeir ‘vespas,’ því var hann kallaðr Vespasianus, V. had ‘worms in the nose,’ which disease they call vespas, therefore he was called V. (sic), Post. (Unger) 155.

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