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1 LOPT
n.1) air, atmosphere, sky (skein sól, ok var lítt a l. komin); l. var mikit til jarðar at falla, it was a great height to fall down; l. ok lögr, sky and sea; á l., aloft, into the air; bera (fœra) á l., to spread abroad; hlaupa í l. upp, to leap up into the air; liggja í l. upp, to lie face uppermost; á lopti, aloft, in the air, on high; taka spjót á lopti, to catch a spear as it flies;2) loft, upper room (Gunnar svaf í lopti einu í skálanum);3) balcony (hann hleypr ofan ór loptinu á strætit).* * *n.:1. [Ulf. luftus = ἀήρ; A. S. lyft; Scot. and Old Engl. lift; Engl. a-loft; O. H. G. and Germ. luft], the air, Eluc. 19, Skálda 174: the air, atmosphere, the sky, heaven, lopt vindlaust, Edda 4; skein sól, ok var lítt á lopt komin, Ld. 36; sól er á góðu lopti, high in the sky, Bs. ii. 111; þeir heyrðu klukku-hljóð í loptið upp, Fms. vi. 63, Hdl. 41, Vsp. 29: lopt var mikit ( a great height) til jarðar at falla, Fb. ii. 389: allit., lopt ok lögr, Skm. 6; lýsti af höndum hennar bæði í lopt ok á lög, Edda 22; renna lopt ok lög, 70; hvat manna sá er með gullhjálminn er ríðr lopt ok lög, segja at hann á furðu góðan hest, 56:—plur., inn þver loptin, Bret. 58; hann skapaði himin ok jörð ok loptin, Edda; hann blæss eitri ok dreifir lopt öll ok lög, 41; loptin neðri, Lil. 27; loptin sungu, 34; hverfðr utan um lopt öll, Fas.2. adverb. phrases; á lopt, aloft, into the sky; hlaupa í lopt upp, io leap up into the air, Nj. 84; hefja e-t á lopt, to hold up aloft, extol, Róm. 308, Bs. i. 284, Finnb. 296; bregða á lopt, Eg. 123; bera (færa) á lopt, to spread abroad, Fms. xi. 287, Fas. i. 363, Bs. i. 133, Fs. 9; horfa, liggja í lopt upp (or upp í lopt), to lie face uppermost, opp. to á grúfu, Sturl. iii. 282: á lopti, aloft in the air, on high, hovering; taka spjótið á lopti, to catch a spear flying, Nj. 84; hann vá svá skjótt með sverði, at þrjú þóttu á lopti at sjá, 29, Þkv. 10.3. air, space; hann flaug um alla lása ok gat hvergi lopt fundit svá at hann mætti inn komask, Fb. i. 276.COMPDS: lopthræddr, loptmegin, loptmjöðm, loptríki, loptvægi.B. [Engl., Scot., and Dan. loft], a loft, upper room, also of houses built on piles (stafir), and thus lifted from the ground; this may well be the primitive sense, from which that of air, sky may be derived through the notion that the heavens were a many-storied ceiling, see the remarks s. v. himinn; often used of the bedroom in old dwellings; en er þeir kómu upp á loptriðit sá þeir at loptið var opit, Eg. 236, Fms. ii. 5; þú skalt liggja í lopti hjá mér í nótt … ok læsti hón þcgar loptinu innan, Nj. 6, 7; til lopts þess er Erlingr svaf í, Ó. H. 116; í annan enda hússins var lopt uppi á þvertrjám …, fóru þeir Arnljótr upp á loptið ok lögðusk þar til svefns, 153, Nj. 199; lopt þat er þar er yfir útidyrum, Eb. 118; þeir gengu til svefns ok upp í loptið, Fs. 85; Gunnarr svaf í lopti einu í skálanum, Nj. 114; var Fjölni fylgt til herbergis í hit næsta lopt, Hkr. i. 17; lopts dyrr, the loft doors, Sturl. ii. 94, Fas. iii. 500; lopts gat, an opening in a floor, trap-door.II. a balcony; þeir Þorbjörn vörðusk ór lopti einu, Orkn. 443; hann var skotinn í lopti einu, Fms. vii. 245; tók konungr sér herbergi í lopti einu, Ó. H. 105: in mod. usage of the ceilings or floors in many-storied houses.COMPDS: loptdyrr, lopteldr, loptgluggr, lopthús, lopthöll, loptrið, loptskemma, loptstofa, loptsvalir.
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