Síl
Old Norse Dictionary - síl
Meaning of Old Norse word "síl"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- síl
- mod. síli, n. [perh. akin to sili, seil, from its slim shape]:—a kind of herring, corregonus albula, Fr.; síla-fullr, filled with síl, of a sea-gull, Fs. (in a verse): freq. in mod. usage, where síli is used of any fish of the herring kind, horn-síl, geir-síl, q. v. síla-varp, n. a net for síl, D. n. ii. 762.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᛚ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- perh.
- perhaps.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.
- Fs.
- Forn-sögur. (D. II.)