Funi
Old Norse Dictionary - funi
Meaning of Old Norse word "funi"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word funi can mean:funi
- funi
- a, m. [Ulf. renders πυρ by fon; Germ. funke is perhaps of the same root; otherwise this word is lost in all Teut. languages]:—a flame; kyuda funa, Hkv. 2. 37, Gm. 1, 42; funi kveykisk af funa, a saying, Hm. 56: metaph. lust, Fms. ii. 369.
- funi
- II. metaph. a hot-tempered man; hann er mesti funi = einsog funi, (mod.)
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚢᚾᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- Germ.
- German.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- Teut.
- Teutonic.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Gm.
- Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
- Hkv.
- Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Hm.
- Hává-mál. (A. I.)