Adjectives: the strong masculine accusative singular is given to indicate a stem-final -j- or -v- or syncope (loss of vowel). For example, heimr m world vinr m friend.Ģ. Strong Masculine Nouns: the genitive singular and nominative plural endings are given after the nominative singular. (einhvers) = (of) or gen Conventions Employed by the Dictionaryġ. This vocabulary adopts the Icelandic convention of using the pronoun einnhverr meaning ‘somebody’ and eitthvat meaning ‘something’ to indicate which case is used with particular verbs: Verbs and prepositions take their objects in various cases, depending on sometimes unpredictable usage. The dictionary form, kná, is the 1/3 sg (first and third person) present: kná defective pret-presvb tobe able to, can could.Ĭlick Here for a List of Abbreviations used by the Dictionary. For example, the verb kná, has no infinitive form in any of the manuscripts.
#SLEIPNIR THE SNOW FELL FULL#
Some entries are labeled defective, meaning they lack a full set of forms in the extant sources. Hence for landnámsmaðr look under land- and for fyrirbjóða look under fyrir-.Defective Words. When looking up a compound word, go to the initial element of the compound. At the end of the alphabet, æ and œ are listed separately, while ǫ and ø are listed together.Ĭompound Words. Long vowels with accent are listed after the corresponding short vowels without accent ( a, á).
The Old Norse dictionary below (from Viking Language 1) compiles everything you need to read the sagas in their original language.
0 kommentar(er)
