Nið
Old Norse Dictionary - nið
Meaning of Old Norse word "nið"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word nið can mean:nið
- nið
- f., pl. niðar, n. G. l. i. 29; dat. pl. niðjum, Vsp. 6 (later niðum); the gender is seen from the pl. niðar (l. c.) from the compd niðar- below, as also from the provinc. Norse and Swed. near; [Swed. nedar; Dan. næ; Ivar Aasen near]:—the wane of the moon, when there is ‘no moon;’ it is in use in Sweden and Denmark, but now obsolete in Iceland, except in the compd niða-myrkr, qs. niðar-myrkr; in old writers esp. in the allit. phrases, ný ok nið, full moon and no moon, Vþm. 25; Máni stýrir göngu tungls ok ræðr nýjum ok niðum, Edda 7; um ny hit næsta ok niðar (acc. pl.), n. G. l. i. 29; nótt með niðum, Vþm. 24; nótt ok niðjum (i. e. niðum) nöfn um gáfu, Vsp. 6; máni, ný, nið, Edda 76: poët., niða borg = the heaven, Skálda (in a verse).
- nið
- COMPDS: Nlðafjöll, niðamyrkr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚾᛁᚦ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- acc.
- accusative.
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- dat.
- dative.
- esp.
- especially.
- f.
- feminine.
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- lit.
- literally.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- poët.
- poetically.
- provinc.
- provincial.
- qs.
- quasi.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Skálda
- Skálda. (H. I.)
- Vsp.
- Völuspá. (A. I.)
- Vþm.
- Vafþrúðnis-mál. (A. I.)