Þísl
Old Norse Dictionary - þísl
Meaning of Old Norse word "þísl"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- þísl
- f. [O. H. G. dihsila; Germ. deichsel; old Swed. þistl; Lat. tēmo qs. tesmo (?); the inflexive l is a diminutive]:—a cart-pole, remains only in the poët. compd sár-þisl, a ‘wound-stick,’ i. e. a sword, Ísl. ii. 389 (in a verse).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚦᛁᛋᛚ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- Germ.
- German.
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- poët.
- poetically.
- qs.
- quasi.
- Swed.
- Swedish.