Slý
Old Norse Dictionary - slý
Meaning of Old Norse word "slý"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- slý
- n., botan. water-cotton, byssus lanuginosa; af sefi eðr slýi, Stj. 253: it was dried and used as tinder, Bs. i. 616 (wrongly spelt slij), freq. in mod. usage.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛚᚢ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- botan.
- botanically.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)