Höfuð-stafr

古诺尔斯语单词“höfuð-stafr”的含义 （或 hǫfuð-stafr）

根据Cleasby & Vigfusson古诺尔斯语到英语词典定义：

höfuð-stafr (hǫfuð-stafr)

m., gramm. a ‘head-stave,’ head letter, capital, initial, used freq. in this sense by Thorodd: but grammarians use it specially of the letters h, q, v, þ, which can stand only at the beginnings of syllables, (see gramm. p. xv, col. 1 at the bottom; Skálda 165–171):—in prosody, the third of the alliterative letters (ljóðstafir) standing ‘ahead’ of the second verse line, the preceding two being called stuðlar; thus in ‘þá var grund groin | grænum lauki,’ the g in ‘grænum’ is a höfuðstafr, but in ‘grund’ and ‘gróin’ a stuðill, Edda 120: in mod. usage höfuðstafir in pl. is used of all the alliterative letters, skáldskapr þinn er skothent klúðr | skakk-settum höfuðstöfum með, Jón Þorl.

正字法: Cleasby & Vigfusson的书中使用字母ö来表示原始古诺尔斯语元音ǫ。因此，höfuð-stafr 可能更准确地写成 hǫfuð-stafr。

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