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  • 1 vaka

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    I)
    (vaki, vakta, vakat), v.
    1) to be awake, to keep awake (hann hefir vakat í alla nótt); v. yfir e-u, to watch during the night (v. yfir fé sínu);
    (gen. pl. vakna), f.
    1) waking halda vöku sinni, to keep oneself awake;
    2) vigil (fara til hins heilaga Ólafs til vöku);
    3) eve of saint’s day.
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    u, f., pl. vökur, gen. pl. vakna, Fms. ix. 29, 218: the being awake, waking, í vöku og svefni, awake and asleep; haldi hverr vöku sinni er má, to keep oneself awake, Ld. 152; halda vöku fyrir e-m, to keep a person awake; í föstum ok vökum, 623. 18; halda vöku yfir hjörð sinni, Hom. 37; hafa vökur miklar ok áhyggjur, sleepless nights, Fms. x. 146; and-vaka, sleeplessness.
    2. in Icel. during the winter, the evening (when one works by lamp-light) is called vaka [Engl. wake]; kveði vöku einni á ( during one evening) aðrir kvæðin betr, a ditty; kvöld-vaka, an evening; næstu vikuna fyrir Jólin eru vökur hafðar lengstar á Íslandi ok vakan miðuð við sjö-stjörnuna til sveita, er svo vakað þangað til stjarnan er komin í nónstað eða miðaptan, Ísl. ii. 568: even evening entertainments are called vaka, wakes, hence viki-vakar, q. v.
    3. a vigil, eve of a saint’s day, eccl.; skyldu þeir fara til hins heilaga Ólafs konungs til vöku, Fms. vii. 309; Jóns-vaka, St. Johns-wake, St. John’s Eve, Norse Jons-ok.
    COMPDS: vaknabúð, vaknaskeið, vökulið, vökumaðr, vökunótt, vökuskarfr.
    II. = vök, an opening in ice, Sturl. ii. 248; brunn-vaka, q. v.

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  • 2 VAKA

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    I)
    (vaki, vakta, vakat), v.
    1) to be awake, to keep awake (hann hefir vakat í alla nótt); v. yfir e-u, to watch during the night (v. yfir fé sínu);
    (gen. pl. vakna), f.
    1) waking halda vöku sinni, to keep oneself awake;
    2) vigil (fara til hins heilaga Ólafs til vöku);
    3) eve of saint’s day.
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    pres. vaki; pret. vakði, vakti; subj. vekði; imperat. vaki, mod. vak, vaktú; part. vakat; thus having lost the strong inflexion which it has in Goth. as well as in Engl.: [Ulf. wakan, pret. wôk; A. S. wakjan; Engl. wake, pret. woke; Germ. wachen; Dan. vaage; Lat. vig-ilare]:—to be awake; hann hefir vakat í alla nótt, Nj. 55; attú vakir í alla nótt, Eg. 418; þrælarnir vöktu, Fms. i. 111; vaki ek ávallt, Vkv.; hann hugðisk vesa at Lögbergi ok vaka, enn hann hugði alla menn aðra sofa, Íb. 7; ok einn morgin er þeir vöktu báðir, Fms. ii. 197; ætlar hann at ek skyla þar vaka yfir ok yrkja um skjöld hans, Eg. 699; Ásgrímr vaknaði eina nótt ok heyrði at Kári vakti, Nj. 210; þar hefir ek vakat ok hugsat um nótt ok dag, Fms. i. 84; vaki þú Angantýr, Fas. i. (in a verse); vaki mær meyja, vaki mín vina, Hdl. 1; vaki þú Fróði, Gs. 17; vaki þú Helgi! fullsofit er, Dropl. 30; vaki menn í skálanum! Gísl. 29; the mod. imperat. is vak, as in the verse,—Vak þú minn Jesú, vak í mér! vaka láttú mig eins í þér, Pass. 4, the last verse of the hymn; vakði hann löngum, Ó. H. 207; ósviðr maðr vakir um allar nætr, Hm. 22; vekða ek Einherja, Em.; Litlu síðarr vaknaði Þórhallr ok spurði hvárt Þiðrandi vekti, Fms. ii. 195: with prep., vaka yfir e-u, to watch, i. 9, iv. 299, Eg. 375: the phrase, láta e-t í veðri vaka, to make believe, pretend.
    2. vakna, Sturl. iii. 186 C.
    3. part. vakandi; ván er vakandi (i. e. vakanda manns) draumr, hope is a waking dream.
    II. to come to the surface, of fish; fiskar vaka þar í öllum ám, Snót, passim in mod. usage.

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