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101 ÞEYJA
this verb occurs only in the infinitive, except as a απ. λεγ. in pret. þá, Gh. 21; [A. S. þawan; Engl. thaw; in North and West Engl. proncd. thow; Germ. thauen; Dan. töe]:—to thaw; nú er margháttað um veðrin, þótti mér élligt vera ok allkallt, en nú þykki mér sem þeyja muni.—Þá mun ávalt þeyja ef þetta verðr at því, Vápn. 21 (the vellum).II. metaph. to cease; svá þá Guðrún sinna harma, thus Gudrun appeased her woes, Gh. 21; ek frá hungr varga þeyja, the hunger of wolves was appeased, Ó. H. (in a verse), where þeyja rhymes with ey, and cannot therefore stand for þegja = to be silent. -
102 ÞIND
f., not þynd, as it is sometimes spelt by modern writers, the i is determined by the old rhyme v indr í sal þ indar, Edda l. c.; [from þenja, prop. what is stretched out; Lat. tent-orium, although different in sense, seems really to be the same word]:—the diaphragm; the word is very freq. in mod. usage, although not recorded in old writers except in this sole instance; salr þindar, the breast, Edda ii. 363 (in a verse), þindar-lauss, adj. without a diaphragm, one who is never out of breath in running, esp. used as an epithet of the fox. -
103 ÞREYTA
(-tta, -ttr), v. to prosecute a thing stoutly to strive hard in a thing;þreyta leik, rás við e-n, to contend in a game, run a race with one;þreyta kapp-sigling, to sail a race;þreyta drykkju við e-n, to vie in drinking with one;þreyta á drykkjuna, to strive hard to drink;þreyta e-t með kappmælum, to dispute eagerly;þreyta lög um e-t, to contend at law;jarlarnir þreyttu þetta með sér, it came to high words between them;þeir þreyttu at komast inn í borgina, they tried hard to get into the burgh;þreyta hest sporum, to prick the horse with the spurs.* * *t, [þraut], to prosecute a case stoutly, to strive, struggle, in a race, task, labour; þreyta leik, rás, kapp-sigling við e-n, to contend in a game, run a race with one, or the like, Edda 34, Fms. vi. 269, 360; þ. á drykkjuna, to contend in drinking, have a drinking-bout, Edda 34; þ. rás, to run a race, id.: þ. e-t með kappmælum, to dispute eagerly, Fms. i. 11; þreyttu þeir þetta með kappmælum þar til er hvárir-tveggju vápnuðusk, vi. 136; er þér þreytið þetta mál svá mjök, vii. 169; meirr þreytti Rútr þat með kappi en með lögum … at þeir þreytti þat ekki með sér, Nj. 31; jarlarnir þreyttu þetta með sér, it came to high words between them, Hkr. i. 87; þ. lög inn e-t, to contend at law, Fms. vii. 132, 135; þeir þreyttu ( tried bard) at komask í borgina, Edda; þreya heim, to strive to get home, K. Þ. K. 94; ef þú þreytir vel á jarðríki, if thou strivest well in this life, Mar.; þreyta hest sporum, to prick the horse with the spurs, Karl. 92.2. hence in mod. usage, to wear out, exhaust; in old writers it seems not to occur in this sense, except as pass.; öflin þreyttusk, were exhausted, Bret. ch. 4: part., þótt hann sé mjök at þreyttr, sorely tried, Nj. 64. -
104 þriskja
(-ta, -tr), v. = þreskja.* * *t, to thresh, Fms. viii. 96; the mod. form is þreskja, q. v., Dan. tærske; but in Icel. the word is little used, and hardly known, except it be in metaph. phrases. -
105 einnhverr
(einhver, eitthvert), indef. pron.; except in nom. and acc. sing. masc. and neut. ein- is generally indecl.;1) some, some one;einnhvern dag, some day;eitthvert sinn, einhverju sinni, sometime, once;as a noun (meðan einnhverr várr búandanna er lífs);2) as an intensive with superl. ágætastr maðr einnhverr, one of the very foremost men;3) each, each one, usually in two words (ór þeirra fjórðungi sem ór einum hverjum öðrum).
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