Bryðja
Old Norse Dictionary - bryðja
Meaning of Old Norse word "bryðja"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- bryðja
- bruddi, brutt, no doubt qs. brytja, prop. to chop with the teeth, used of chewing biscuits or other hard brittle food: cp. provincial Ital. rottà, which is used in the very same sense, from Lat. rumpere, as bryðja comes from brjóta, brytja.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚱᚢᚦᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- Ital.
- Italian.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- qs.
- quasi.