Buza
Old Norse Dictionary - buza
Meaning of Old Norse word "buza"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word buza can mean:buza
- buza
- u, f. [a for. woid; mid. Lat. bussa; O. H. G. buzo; Dutch buise; Engl. herring-buss], a sort of merchant-ship, Fms. vii. 289, ix. 304, xi. 425; freq. in the Ann. of the 14th century; it occurs first A. D. 1251, then 1299: in the 14th century, during the Hanseatic trade with Icel., nearly every ship was called buza, vide Ann.
- buza
- COMPD: buzuskip.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᛋᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. D.
- Anno Domini.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- for.
- foreign.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- mid. Lat.
- middle Latin.
- n.
- neuter.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ann.
- Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)