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(pl. -ir), f.1) wight, being; þegi þú, rög v., hold thy tongue, vile being;2) esp. a supernatural being; hjálpi þér hollar vættir, way the gracious powers help thee; heiðnar vættir, heathen fiends; illar vættir, evil beings;3) ekki vætta, no whit, nothing at all (höfðu þeir ekki vætta at sök); as adv. not at all (ekki vætta hræddr); øngu vætta vildi hann eira, he would not spare anything.* * *f., dat. vætti, Grett. 176 new Ed., Hom. 129 (Ed.); used neut., Hom. 195, l. 4: [A. S. wiht; Engl. wight; Germ. böse-wicht]:—a ‘wight,’ being; Brynhildar, armrar vættar, Gkv. 1. 22; vön sé sú vættr vers ok barna, 23; Brynhildar, armrar vættar, 22; þegi þú, rög vættr, Ls. 59, 61, 63; þá segi ek þér, vesöl vettr, Hom. 152; nú sá þér hverjar vættir er þess höfðu neytt, mýss ok ormar, Ó. H. 109.2. esp. of supernatural beings; svá brenna mik nú bænir Ólafs konungs, sagði sú vættr, Ó. H. 188; Guð, hví metr þú þik þess, at sýna afl þitt við jamnústyrkt vætr sem ek em, Hom. 195; ertú maðr eða andi eðr önnur vættr, Art. 79; hollar vættir, Frigg ok Freyja ok fleiri goð, Og.; blóta heiðnar vættir, K. Þ. K.; hann hafði kastað trú sinni ok görðisk guðníðingr ok blótaði nú heiðnar vættir, Nj. 272; hann kvað íllar vættir því snemma stýrt hafa, Korm. 240; kann vera nokkur íll vættr hafi lagizk á féit, Fms. xi. 158; ú-vættr, an ‘un-wight,’ an evil wight; mein-vættr, q. v.; görninga-vættr, galdra-v., a sorceress; þeirri görninga vætti, Grett. 176; land-vættir, q. v.: vitta vettr, a ‘witch wight,’ a sorceress, Ýt.B. vætta or vetta, in the phrase, ekki vætta, no whit, naught; dat. engu vætta, gen. enskis vætta. Mr. Jón Thorkelsson, of Reykjavík, suggests that vætta is a nom. neut. (like auga), of which vætna (see hvat-vetna) is the gen. plur. (as augna from auga); ekki vætta ( nobody) má forðask, Sks. 82; ok kemsk ekki vætta yfir, Art. 28; ok skorti (ekki) vætta um vetrinn, Fms. v. 313; höfðu þeir ekki vætta at sök, viii. 18; þeim var nú ok ást á öngu vetti (vetta?) nema á Guði einum, Hom. 129 (Ed., see foot-note); sem honum hefði enskis vetta verit at grandi, 125 (Ed.); svá mikit kafa-fjúk með frosti at engu vetta var út komanda, Fs. 54; öngu vætta vildi hann eira, Fms. xi. 90; ok öngu vætta vanat, Stj. 279; hann gefr sér ekki vætta (naught, not a whit) um hans úvitrleik, 22; hann var ekki vætta hræddr, not a whit afraid, 154; anza ekki vætta, to heed not, 81; nokkut vætta, aught, something, 164, 181, 280.C. vætr, as an adverb = naught, cp. Goth. ni-waiht or waiht-ni = οὐδέν, μηδέν, the negative particle né being dropped; hyggsk vætr hvatr fyrir, Ls. 15; át vætr Freyja, svaf vætr Freyja, Þkv.; vinna vætr, Vkv. 39; sér vætr fyrir því, Skv. 1. 39; leyfi ek vætr, I praise it not, Eg. (in a verse).2. with gen., vætr manna, no man, Hbl. 22; vætr véla no fraud, Am. 5; vætr hjóna, none of the household, 94; ey-vit (q. v.), aught.
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