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1 stertr
m. short tail, dock.* * *1.m. [A. S. steort; Engl. start in red-start; O. H. G. sterz], a tail, the vertebrae of the tail; skera tagl upp í stert, to dock a horse’s tail; því berr hann stýfðan stert, Fas. i. (in a verse).2.part. [cp. Engl. start, upstart], stately, haughty; Sámr gékk mjök upp stertr, S. stalked very stately, haughtily, prob. from the fine dress (sterta); gengr hann upp stert mjök, Mork. 38. -
2 freð-stertr
or fret-stertr, m., and freðsterts-mát or fretstertu-mát, n., Mag. 23: [Chaucer calls the queen in chess fers, which is derived from her Persian name ferz or ferzan = a king’s captain; the Icel. word is no doubt of the same origin]:—check-mate with the queen’s pawn: other check-mates used in Icel. are heima-stertr, peð-rífr, gleiðar-mát, níumanna-mát, and many more. -
3 upp-stertr
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4 HALI
* * *m. tail; leika (veifast um) lausum hala, to play with a loose tail, to be unrestrained; bera brattan halann, to cock up the tail, to be proud; draga eptir sér halann, to drag the tail, to play the coward.* * *a, m. [Dan. hale, cp. Lat. cauda], a tail; kýr-hali, a cow’s tail; nauts-h., ljóns-h., etc.; skauf-hali, reynard, a fox, whence Skaufhala-bálkr, the name of an old poem, an Icel. Reineke Fuchs. Icel. use hali properly of cattle, and lions, wolves, bears; tagl of horses (of the hair, but stertr of a caudal vertebra); rófa of cats, dogs; skott of a fox; sporðr of a fish; stél or véli of birds; dyndill of seals. The old writers do not make these nice distinctions, and use hali of a horse and tagl of a cow, which a mod. Icel. would not do; hylr öll kykvendi hár eðr hali, Sks. 504: in Gþl. 398 of cattle, cp. N. G. L. i. 24; ef maðr höggr hala af hrossi svá at af rófu fylgir, Gþl. 399; ef maðr höggr hala af hrossi fyrir neðan rófu, id.; nú skerr maðr tagl af nautum, id.; eru þeir í málum mestir sem refr í halanum, Fms. viii. 350; ef maðr skerr af hrossi manns tögl, þá gjaldi aura þrjá; en ef hala höggr af, þá skal meta hross, N. G. L. i. 228; ok svá ef hann höggr hala af hrossi svá at rófa fylgir, id.: of a lion’s tail, Stj. 71.2. phrases, nú er úlfs hali einn á króki, a wolf’s tail is all that is left, Band. (in a verse),—a proverb from the notion that wild beasts devour one another so that only the tail is left, cp. etask af ulfs-munni, vide eta: leika lausum hala, to play with a free tail, to be unrestrained, Ls. 50; veifask um lausum hala, id., Sturl. iii. 30; bretta halann, or bera brattan halann, to lift the tail, cock up the tail, to be vain or haughty, Hkv. Hjörv. 20; en ef eigi er unnit, þá muntú reyna hvárr halann sinn berr brattara þaðan í frá, Ísl. ii. 330; sé ek at þú heldr nokkru rakkara halanum en fyrir stundu áðan, Ölk. 36; draga halann, to drag the tail, sneak awav, play the coward; dregr melrakkinn eptir sér halann sinn nú—Svá er segir hann, at ek dreg eptir mér halann minn, ok berr ek lítt upp eðr ekki, en þess varir mik at þú dragir þinn hala mjök lengi áðr þú hefnir Halls bróður þíns, Ísl. ii. 329; sveigja halann, id., Hkv. Hjörv. 21; (cp. Ital. codardo, whence Engl. coward): spjóts-hali, the butt-end of a spear, Eg. 289, Ld. 132, Hkr. iii. 159; snældu-hali, a staff’s end.II. metaph. a train, the rear of a host; skammr er orðinn hali okkarr, we have a short train, few followers, Sturl. (in a verse).COMPDS: halaferð, halarófa, halastjarna, halatafl.III. a nickname, Fb. iii. -
5 sperra
* * *(-ða, -ðr), v. to stretch out (s. frá sér fœtr);refl., sperrast við, to struggle against (gengu þeir á brott með hana, en hón sperrðist við).* * *1.u, f. [Engl. spar], a spar, rafter, of a roof.COMPDS: sperrileggr, sperrutær, sperruvegr.2.ð and t, to raise the spars in a house, D. N. i. 477.2. to stretch out the legs like rafters; hrossit sýktisk ok sperrði frá sér fætr, Bs. i. 614.II. reflex. to struggle by putting the feet out like spars; hann sperrisk við fast í sætinu, Th. 76; siðan gengu þeir á land, en hón sperrðisk við, ok tók annarr í hár henni ok leiddi hana, Sd. 185: upp spertr, strutted (better stertr), Hrafn. 18. -
6 στόρθυγξ
στόρθυγξ, - υγγοςGrammatical information: m. f.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (S)Etymology: Like the synonym στόνυξ an isolated poetic word with formation like φάρυγξ, σπῆλυγξ, σπόρθυγγες (s. σπύραθοι) a.o. from στόρθη τὸ ὀξὑ τοῦ δόρατος, καὶ ἐπιδορατίς H., which differs from OWNo. stirðr `stiff, unbending', storð f. `grass, green stalk' (IE * sterdh- or stert-, resp. str̥dh-, str̥t-) only in ablaut. Beside it with IE -d- a.o. OWNo. stertr m. `bird's tail', OHG a. NHG Sterz. Further forms w. lit. in Bq and WP 2, 630, Pok. 1023f. -- Finally to στερεός etc. (s. v.). -- No doubt a Pre-Greek word. (The etym. proposed has nothing to recommend it.) (Not in Furnée.)Page in Frisk: 2,802Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > στόρθυγξ
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