Páll
Old Norse Dictionary - páll
Meaning of Old Norse word "páll"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word páll can mean:páll
- páll
- m. [Lat. pālus, qs. paglus; Engl. pole; Fr. pelle; mid. Lat. pala, see Du Cange]:—a kind of hoe or spade for digging earth or peat, for a drawing of which see Eggert Itin., tab. viii, fig. 4; pála eðr rekur, K. Þ. K. 38; páll ok reka, Ám. 34; hafa pál ok reku. Ísl. ii. 193; gengu í fjós ok tóku þar pál ok reku, Dropl. 28; þá tók Clement graftól í hönd sér ok hjó tysvar pálinum niðr, Clem. 46; Klaufi saxar í sundr baggana með páli, Sd. 157.
- páll
- 2. a pale, D. n. i. 527.
- páll
- COMPDS: pálstunga, páltorfa.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᛅᛚᛚ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- Engl.
- English.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- gl.
- glossary.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- mid. Lat.
- middle Latin.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- qs.
- quasi.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ám.
- Auðunnar-máldagi. (J. I.)
- Clem.
- Clements Saga. (F. III.)
- Dropl.
- Droplaugar-sona Saga. (D. II.)
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.
- Itin.
- Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.
- K. Þ. K.
- Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- Sd.
- Svarfdæla Saga. (D. II.)
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)