Steypa

Meaning of Old Norse word "steypa"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

Old Norse word steypa can mean:steypa

steypa

ð and t, [a causal answering to stúpa, staup]:—to ‘make stoop,’ cast down, overthrow (Germ. stürzen), with dat.; at vér steypim hánum, Fms. vii. 261; s. þínum úvinum, viii. 220; at eigi mætti ofsi lögum s., x. 120, Hkr. i. 72; s. niðr e-u, to throw down, Barl. 152; s. hjálminum þeim inum gullroðna, Fms. vii. 242; þeir steyptu fimm konungum í eina keldu, Ó. H. 69; hann steypir sér fram, stooped down, Karl. 161.

steypa

2. to let sink down, put on (or off) a smock-formed garment; hann tók selbelgi ok steypti yfir höfuð þeim, Fms. i. 10; s. kyrtli yfir e-n, Blas. 46; hann steypti á sik grárri kápu, Fms. vii. 289; s. af sér brynjunni, kyrtli (= Lat. exuere), i. 43, vi. 421, Fb. ii. 214: of a hood, hann hafði loðkápa yzt ok steypt hettinum, he let the hood sink over the face, Fms. ii. 149.

steypa

II. to pour out, with dat.; steypa soði á leiði hans, Fms. vii. 251; steypa viðsmjörvi í vár hjörtu, Mar.; hann lét s. þar á gullinu, poured the gold out into it, Hkr. iii. 80; hann tók byttu eina fulla af drykk, ok steypti yfir dokkuna, ok kældi svá eldinn, Fms. x. 54; s. vatni í munnlaug, Mar.; þá er sínu blóði hafa út steypt, 671. 4; tekr örvarnar ok steypir þeim niðr fyrir sik, Nj. 107; s. heitu vaxi á andlit sér, Fms. vi. 153, vii. 30, 225: s. út, to pour out; s. út geislum, Sks. 48: s. niðr, to pour down: s. yfir e-n, to pour out over one, Fms. i. 97.

steypa

III. reflex. to tumble down, fall stooping, Germ. stü;rzen; steypðisk hann dauðr á gólfit, Fms. iii. 193; Þorkell steyptisk yfir hann, Fagrsk. 52; jarl steyptisk fram á gólfit, Orkn. 48; hón steyptisk í gljúfrin, Grett. 141; iðrin steyptusk ór honum ofan í ána, id.; steypask yfir borð, to plunge overboard, Fms. i. 178, Hkr. i. 239; þá steypumk á þá ofan fyrir brekkuna. let us plunge upon them, like a stream, Fms. vii. 297: of a waterfall, forsinn steypisk fram af berginu.

steypa

2. part., in the phrase, með steyptum kertum, with candles reversed in the ceremony of excommunication, H. E. i. 146, Stat. 283, Sturl. iii.

steypa

B. With acc. [staup; Dan. stöbe], to cast, found; steypa skurðgoð, guða af málmi, Barl. 139, Stj. 188, 583; steyptr kálfi, Sks. 574; steypt af kopar ok málmi, Fms, vii, 97, passim in old and mod. usage: svelli var steypt í gilit, lumps of ice, Mar.: metaph., rendering of Lat. fundere, s. fram bæn = fundere preces, id.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛏᛁᚢᛒᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements