Flaska
Old Norse Dictionary - flaska
Meaning of Old Norse word "flaska"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word flaska can mean:flaska
- flaska
- 1. að, to split, in the popular phrase, flaska á skeri, to split on a skerry or rock, of a ship, cp. Grett. 148 (in a verse).
- flaska
- 2. u, f. [a word prob. of Byzantine origin, from Gr. φλάσκη, φλάσκιον; Dan. and Swed. flaska or flaske; Germ. flasche; Engl. flask; Ital. fiasco; Span. flasco; Fr. flacon; cp. Du Cange s. v. flasco and flasca]:—a flask; but it must be old, as flösku-skegg, n. bottle-beard, occurs in Landn. as a nickname of an uncle of the old Njal.; flösku-bakr, m. bottle-back, which occurs as a nickname in Grett., cp. Landn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᛚᛅᛋᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Gr.
- Greek.
- Ital.
- Italian.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- prob.
- probably.
- Span.
- Spanish.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)