Húm
Old Norse Dictionary - húm
Meaning of Old Norse word "húm"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word húm can mean:húm
- húm
- n., poët. the sea, from its dusky colour; salt húm, the salt sea, Lex. poët., Edda (Gl.), also in poët. compds.
- húm
- II. in prose, twilight, dusk; um kveldit í húmi, Fb. iii. 333; en húm var á mikit, Fas. ii. 284, Grett. (in a verse); í húminu, in the dusk of evening, Gísl. 138, Thom. 308: of the grey dusk in the morning, Fms. vi. 284; hence comes prob. the mod. phrase, að koma, fara í humótt (hámóti) á eptir, to lag behind, sneak behind another. humóttu-legr, adj. sneaking and ashamed.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚢᛘ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- compds.
- compounds.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- adj.
- adjective.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- prob.
- probably.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Gísl.
- Gísla Saga. (D. II.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)