Hvöt
Old Norse Dictionary - hvöt
Meaning of Old Norse word "hvöt" (or hvǫt)
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word hvöt can mean:hvöt
- hvöt (hvǫt)
- f., gen. hvatar, pl. hvatir, instigation, impulse, Al. 119, passim, as also in mod. usage, fram-hvöt, q. v.: alacrity, Lex. Poët.: names of poems, Guðrunar-hvöt, Sæm.; Húskarla-hvöt, Ó. H.
- hvöt (hvǫt)
- COMPDS: hvatabuss, hvatamaðr.
Orthography: The Cleasby & Vigfusson book used letter ö to represent the original Old Norse vowel ǫ. Therefore, hvöt may be more accurately written as hvǫt.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚢᚢᛏ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- gen.
- genitive.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Sæm.
- Sæmundar Edda. (A, C. I.)