Halli
Old Norse Dictionary - halli
Meaning of Old Norse word "halli"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- halli
- a, m. [Ivar Aasen hall; cp. the Norse Fredriks-’hald’], a sloping, brink, declivity, Hem.; freq. in mod. usage: metaph. a drawback, loss of right.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛅᛚᛚᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Hem.
- Hemings-þáttr. (C. H.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.