Gói
Old Norse Dictionary - gói
Meaning of Old Norse word "gói"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word gói can mean:gói
- gói
- f. indecl., always so in old writers, (gœ, i. e. góe, Bs. i. 9, v. 1.), mod. góa, u, f.; the month Gói has thirty days, from the middle of February to the middle of March; for the mythical origin of this word vide Fb. i. 22, Edda 103, Landn. 154, 225, Rb. 48, 50, Ann. 1276, 1340, Bs. i. 9, Ó. H. 64:—in Icel. the names of the winter months Þorri and Góa are still very common.
- gói
- COMPDS: Góibeytlar, Góiblót, Góimánaðr, Góiþræll.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚢᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- decl.
- declined.
- f.
- feminine.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- i. e.
- id est.
- indecl.
- indeclinable.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ann.
- Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Rb.
- Rímbegla. (H. III.)