Afi
Fornnordisk Ordbok - afi
Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "afi"
Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:
Fornnordiskt ord afi kan betyda:afi
- afi
- a, m. [cp. Lat. avus, Ulf. avô = μάμμα, and aba = ανήρ, vir], grandfather: it is now frequent, but occurs very rarely in old writers, who almost always use móðurfaðir or föðurfaðir. Yet it occurs in the poem Rm. 16—afi ok amma—and Vþm. 29, where it = föðurfaðir. It is curious to observe that in the poem Skm.—whence it is again transferred into the Grógaldr—it is used in the sense of a boy or a son; cp. as an illustration of this use the Norse phrase—D. N. iv. 848—afi eptir afa = son after father, man after man in uninterrupted succession, in accord- ance to the Gothic aba; Edda 108, Fms. iv. 288, vi. 346, xi. 6. We also say lang-afi, great-grandfather, and langamma, great-grandmother.
- afi
- COMPD: afasystir.
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Yngre futhark-runor användes från 800- till 1200-talet i Skandinavien och deras utländska bosättningar
Förkortningar som används:
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
Verk & författare citerade:
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Rm.
- Rígsmál. (A. II.)
- Skm.
- Skírnis-mál. (A. I.)
- Vþm.
- Vafþrúðnis-mál. (A. I.)