Hams
Old Norse Dictionary - hams
Meaning of Old Norse word "hams"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word hams can mean:hams
- hams
- m. (= hamr), a snake’s slough; ormar skríða ór hamsi á vár, Mkv.; kalla sverðit orm, en fetlana ok umgörð hams hans, Edda (Ht.) 123: metaph., góðr (íllr) hams er á e-m, one is in a good (bad) frame of mind; hams er góðr á fljóðum, Hallfred: Icel. say, vera í góðum, vondum hamsi, id.: allit. phrases as, hafa hold og hams, ‘to keep up flesh and skin,’ i. e. to be hale and hearty, to be in a good state.
- hams
- II. in plur. hamsar means particles of suet. In Norway hams means the husks of beans and grains: in Dan. a kind of beetle is called gjedehams. ☞ The s in hams is curious; it is kept throughout all cases; it is either a remnant of the old masc. mark s for r as in Gothic, or perhaps the s answers to the inflex. d as in O. H. G. hamedi, Germ. hemd; but still more closely to the inflex. final s in Ital. camisa, Fr. chemise.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛅᛘᛋ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- lit.
- literally.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- v.
- vide.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- Germ.
- German.
- inflex.
- inflexive.
- Ital.
- Italian.
- masc.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- plur.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ht.
- Hátta-tal. (C. I.)
- Mkv.
- Málshátta-kvæði. (A. III.)
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.