Deigja

Fornnordisk Ordbok - deigja

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "deigja"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

Fornnordiskt ord deigja kan betyda:deigja

deigja
1. u, f. a dairy-maid; this word is the humble mother of the Engl. lady, qs. la-dy (vide p. 76. S. v. brauð). A. S. hlæf-dige = bread-maid; cp. Norse bú-deigja (q. v.). Chaucer’s dey (a maner dey), and West Engl. day- (or dey-) house, a dairy. The deigja in old Norse farms was the chief maid, but still a bondwoman, n. G. l. i. 70, H. E. i. 510; öll ertú d. dritin. LS. 56, where it is curiously enough addressed to the daughter of Byggvir (bygg = barley), a handmaid of the gods; deigja seems to mean a baker-woman, and the word no doubt is akin to deig, dough, and Goth. deigan, to knead, the same person being originally both dairy-woman and baker to the farm: in Icel. the word is never used, but it survives in the Norse bu-deia, sæter-deia, agtar-deia, reid-deia (Ivar Aasen), and Swed. deja, = a dairy-maid.
deigja
2. u, f. wetness, dump.

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Förkortningar som används:

A. S.
Anglo-Saxon.
cp.
compare.
Engl.
English.
f.
feminine.
gl.
glossary.
Goth.
Gothic.
Icel.
Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
id.
idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
l.
line.
L.
Linnæus.
n.
neuter.
qs.
quasi.
q. v.
quod vide.
S.
Saga.
s. v.
sub voce.
Swed.
Swedish.
v.
vide.

Verk & författare citerade:

H. E.
Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
Ivar Aasen
Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
Ls.
Loka-senna. (A. I.)
N. G. L.
Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
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