Þvag

Meaning of Old Norse word "þvag"

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

Old Norse word þvag can mean:þvag

þvag

n. [þvá], prop. ‘wash,’ but only used of,

þvag

2. urine, so called from stale urine being in ancient times, as at the present day in Icel., used as lye, instead of soap, for washing wool, wadmal, and the like: in mod. usage as a medic. term, hland being too coarse; þvag-stemma, obstruction of the urine; þvag-lát, þvag-flæði, = enuresis; þvag-lausnir = pyuria; þvag-tregða = dysuria; þvag-sviði = ardor urinae, Fél. x. 57, 58.

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