Fornnordisk Ordbok - há

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "há"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

Fornnordiskt ord há kan betyda:

f, after-math, n. G. l. i. 40, cp. 289, freq. in mod. usage, whence há-bit, n. the after-math bite or grazing,l. 407, 503.
II. the hide of a horse or cattle, Hm. 135; hross-há, a horse’s hide: nauts-há, a neat’s hide; but gæra of a sheep: þing-há, a ‘thing-circuit,’ district, from heyja (q. v.); or is the metaphor taken from an expanded hide?
III. in poetry há seems to occur twice in the sense of battle-field or battle, from the fact that duels were fought upon a hide: fara at há, to go to battle, Ó. H. (Sighvat); at há hverju (hverri), Hervar. (in a verse).

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Förkortningar som används:

cp.
compare.
freq.
frequent, frequently.
l.
line.
L.
Linnæus.
mod.
modern.
n.
neuter.
m.
masculine.
q. v.
quod vide.
v.
vide.

Verk & författare citerade:

Gþl.
Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
N. G. L.
Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
Hm.
Hává-mál. (A. I.)
Ó. H.
Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
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