Grýfi-liga
Old Norse Dictionary - grýfi-liga
Meaning of Old Norse word "grýfi-liga"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- grýfi-liga
- adv. [grúfa; Germ. gräulich; Dan. gruelig; Swed. grulig; Ivar Aasen gruvaleg]:—prop. ‘grovellingly,’ metaph. shockingly, Fb. ii. 26.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚱᚢᚠᛁ-ᛚᛁᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- adv.
- adverb.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Germ.
- German.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- n.
- neuter.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.