Skaða
Old Norse Dictionary - skaða
Meaning of Old Norse word "skaða"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word skaða can mean:skaða
- skaða
- 1. að, [see skeðja; Engl. scathe; O. H. G. skadon; Germ. schaden; Dan. skade]:—to scathe, hurt, in old writers impers. to take hurt, be scathed; ekki skal þik í skaða, Ld. 212; þig skaðar ekki, frændi, ef ek einn mæli þetta, Fb. ii. 194; má ok vera at skikkjuna skaði ekki, Fms, ii. 279; bætti hann þat, svá at ekki skaðaði, vii. 158.
- skaða
- 2. u, f. a bird, Dan. skade, Edda (gl.)
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛅᚦᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Engl.
- English.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- impers.
- impersonal.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- pers.
- person.
- f.
- feminine.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Ld.
- Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)