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the book reads like a translation

  • 1 the book reads like a translation

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > the book reads like a translation

  • 2 read

    1. I
    1) learn (teach smb.) to read учиться (научить кого-л.) читать; be (un)able to read (не) уметь читать; he can neither read nor write он не умеет ни читать, ни писать; I've no time (I haven't enough time) to read /for reading/ у меня нет (достаточно) времени, чтобы читать /для чтения/; I've finished reading я дочитал; did he speak extempore or read? он говорил [без подготовки] или читал?
    2) what does the thermometer (speedometer, etc.) read ? что показывает термометр и т.д.?, какая температура и т.д.?
    2. II
    1) read i n some manner read slowly (fluently, softly, intelligibly, indistinctly, monotonously, etc.) читать медленно и т.д.; read aloud out loud/ (просчитать вслух; read word by word читать слово за словом; read at sight читать с листа; read for some time read all day long читать весь, день напролет; she's learning to read now сейчас она учится читать; read far into the night читать /зачитываться/ далека за полночь
    2) read in some manner the sentence (the passage, etc.) reads oddly /queerly/ это предложение и т.д. странно звучит; the play does not read well эта пьеса при чтении не производит впечатления; the play reads hatter than it acts пьеса читается лучше, чем звучит со сцены; the passage reads thus вот, что гласит этот отрывок; read at some time how does the sentence read now? как теперь звучит /сформулировано/ это предложение?
    3) read in some manner you must read harder [next term] вам надо больше заниматься [в будущем /следующем/ семестре]
    3. III
    read smth.
    1) read a letter (a book, a newspaper, a manuscript, poetry, Shakespeare, etc.) читать письмо и т.д.; read English (German, etc.) читать по-английски и т.д.; he can read several languages он умеет читать на нескольких языках; on the ring one can read these words... на кольце можно прочитать такие слова...; read a will зачитывать завещание; read proofs print. читать /держать, править/ корректуру
    2) read a lecture (a report, a paper, a sermon, etc.) читать лекцию и т.д.
    3) the clause reads both ways статьи можно понимать /толковать/ двояко; а rule that reads two different ways правило, которое можно понимать и так, и этак; for "fail", a misprint, read "fall" вкралась опечатка: вместо "fail" читайте "fall"
    4) read hieroglyphs (Chinese characters, the clock, etc.) разбирать /расшифровывать/ иероглифы и т.д.; read the Morse system знать азбуку Морзе; read a map читать карту; read a piece of music разобрать музыкальную пьесу; а motorist must be able to read traffic signs автомобилист должен уметь разбираться в дорожных знаках; read a riddle разгадать загадку; read dreams толковать /разгадывать/ сны; read smb.'s fortune предсказывать кому-л. судьбу; read smb.'s thought читать чьи-л. мысли; read men's hearts читать в людских сердцах
    6) read a thermometer (a barometer, an electric meter, etc.) снимать показания термометра и т.д.; read smb.'s blood pressure измерять кому-л. кровяное давление; read an angle topog. измерить угол
    7) read history (physics, etc.) изучать историю и т.д.
    4. IV
    1) read smth. in some manner read smth. silently (easily, clearly, aloud, etc.) читать что-л. молча и т.д., read smth. over and over снова и снова перечитывать что-л.; read it out loud прочтите это вслух; he cannot read English or German fluently он не умеет бегло читать ни по-английски, ни по-немецки; she reads poetry very well она очень хорошо читает стихи; read smth. at some time I like to read books at night я люблю читать книги ночью; have you read your mail yet? вы уже прочитали свою почту?; few read this author nowadays в наши дни немногие читают этого писателя
    2) read smth. at some time can the child read the clock yet? ребенок умеет уже узнавать время по часам? || read music at sight читать ноты с листа
    3) read smth. in some manner I read it differently я это не так понимаю
    5. V
    read smb. smth.
    1) read smb. a letter (a story, etc.) (просчитать кому-л. письмо и т.д.
    2) read smb. a lesson (a [severe] lecture) прочитать кому-л. нотацию (сделать [суровое] внушение)
    6. VI
    read smth. in some state few will read it dry-eyed немногие прочтут это, не прослезившись
    7. XI
    1) be read the boy had been read the story of Cinderella мальчику прочли сказку о Золушке; be read to for some time the invalid is read to for several hours daily больному каждый день читают вслух по нескольку часов; be read by smb. this is largely read by young men эту книгу больше всего читает молодежь
    2) be read after the will had been read после оглашения завещания; read and aproved заслушано и одобрено (о протоколе, плане и т.п.)
    3) be read in some manner clause that may be read several ways статья, допускающая несколько толкований; his letters have to be read between the lines его письма следует читать между строк; be read as smth. my silence is not to be read as consent мое молчание нельзя считать согласием /принимать за согласие/
    8. XVI
    1) read about /of /smth., smb. read about a disaster (of smb.'s death, of heroes of other days, of his success, etc.) (про)читать о катастрофе и т.д.; I've just been reading about it я как раз об этом только что читал; read from /out of /smth., smb. read from /out of/ a book a) вычитать [что-л.] в книге; б) процитировать что-л. из книги; read from Shakespeare читать из [произведений] Шекспира; read to smb. read to the children читать детям; read to oneself читать про себя; read before smb. read before the class читать перед классом /всему классу/; read at (by) smth. read at meals (at night, etc.) читать за едой и т.д., read by turns читать по очереди || read between the lines читать между строк; read in some place read in bed (in trains, etc.) читать в постели и т.д., read in a certain voice read in a low (in a firm, in a sure, in a clear, etc.) voice читать тихим и т.д. голосом; read with (without) smth. read with [much] enthusiasm (with expression, with poetical rapture, etc.) читать с [большим] энтузиазмом и т.д., read with the lips читать [шевели] губами; the blind read with their fingers слепые читают с помощью пальцев; read without expression читать без [всякого] выражения; read without glasses /spectacles/ читать без очков; read for smth. read for amusement and relaxation читать для развлечения и отдыха; read in smth. read in smb.'s eyes (in smb.'s heart, in smb.'s face, etc.) читать в чьих-л. глазах и т.д.; read in some language read in some foreign language (in Spanish, in Turkish, etc.) читать на каком-л. иностранном языке и т.д.
    2) read to (in) smth. this ticket reads to Boston в билете сказано "до Бостона"; how does this passage read in the original (in translation)? как звучит этот отрывок в оригинале (в переводе)?
    3) read for smth. read for an examination (for a degree, for honours, etc.) готовиться к экзамену и т.д.; read for the law учиться на юридическом факультете; read for the Bar готовиться к адвокатуре; read (up)on smth. read (up)on a subject готовиться [к экзамену] по какому-л. предмету
    9. XVIII
    read oneself into some state read oneself hoarse (stupid, blind, etc.) дочитаться до хрипоты и т.д.
    10. XIX1
    read like smth. the book reads like a translation (like a novel, like a wild dream, like a threat, like a lie, etc.) книга читается /воспринимается/ как перевод и т.д.; this does not read like a child's composition когда читаешь это сочинение, то не возникает /не создается/ впечатления, что оно написано ребенком; the autobiography reads like a novel эту автобиографию читаешь, как роман
    11. XX3
    || the document (the letter, etc.) reads as follows... документ и т.д. гласит следующее...; the passage quoted (the telegram, etc.) reads as follows... в цитате и т.д. говорится, что...
    12. XXI1
    1) read smth. to smb. read a story to the children (a letter to one's brother, etc.) (про)читать детям рассказ и т.д.; read the letter to yourself прочтите письмо про себя; read smth., smb. in smth. read smth. in the newspaper (in a book, etc.) (про)читать что-л. в газете и т.д.; read an author in the original читать какого-л. автора в оригинале; read smth. with (without) smth. read English poetry with interest (with intelligence, with appreciation, with expression, etc.) читать английскую поэзию с интересом и т.д.; I can't see to read the name without a light без света я не могу прочитать фамилию; read smth. by (in) a certain light read smth. by candle-light (by noonlight, in twilight, etc.) читать что-л. при свече и т.д.; read smb. to some state read smb. (oneself) to sleep усыпить кого-л. (себя) чтением
    2) read smth. to smb. read a report to the meeting a) огласить отчет на заседании; б) сделать доклад на собрании; read a sermon to smb. прочесть кому-л. нотацию, давать кому-л. наставления
    3) read smth. by smth. read a telegram by code расшифровать /прочитать/ телеграмму с помощью кода; read smth. in smth. read smb.'s thoughts (smb.'s open nature, etc.) in his eyes (in his countenance, etc.) читать чьи-л. мысли и т.д. по глазам и т.д.; you can read a person's character in his face по лицу можно определить характер человека; read smb.'s future in tea-leaves = гадать кому-л. на кофейной гуще; read smth. instead of smth. read "of" instead of "for" print. вместо "for" следует читать "of" || read smth. between the lines читать между строк; I could read jealousy between the lines между строк явно проглядывала ревность [, водившая пером автора]; read smth. into smth. видеть что-л. в чем-л.; read sarcasm into a letter усмотреть в письме насмешку; you read too much into the text вы вычитали из текста то, чего в нем нет; we sometimes read our own thoughts into a poet's words мы иногда вкладываем свой собственный смысл в слова поэта; read a compliment into what was meant as a rebuke истолковать как комплимент то, что должно было быть /звучать/ упреком
    4) read smth. at smth. he's reading physics at Cambridge он в Кембридже изучает физику
    13. XXIII1 |
    || read smb. like a book прекрасно понимать кого-л., видеть кого-л. насквозь
    14. XXIV1
    read smth. as smth. read silence as consent (the dark and cloudy sky as the threat of a storm, etc.) рассматривать /считать, толковать/ молчание как согласие и т.д.
    15. XXV
    1) read when... (that...) he was reading when I called он читал, когда я позвонил; I've read somewhere that it's not true (that revenge is wild justice, etc.) я где-то читал /прочел/, что это неправда и т.д.
    2) read that... the paragraph reads to the effect that all men are equal в этом абзаце говорится /провозглашается/, что все люди равны

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > read

  • 3 read

    1. [ri:d] n
    1. разг. чтение; время, проведённое за чтением

    time for a long read - время, чтобы всласть почитать

    2. вчт. считывание ( данных)
    2. [red] a
    1. ( часто in) начитанный, сведущий (в какой-л. области), имеющий какую-л. подготовку

    to be well [deeply, slightly, little] read in a subject - иметь хорошую [глубокую, некоторую, слабую] подготовку в какой-л. области

    2. прочитанный

    to hear a read speech - выслушать речь, которая читалась по тексту

    the most read of all books - книга, у которой больше всего читателей

    ♢ to take as read - а) утвердить без зачитывания; the minutes were taken as read - протокол предыдущего заседания был утверждён без его оглашения; б) принимать на веру, считать само собой разумеющимся

    we'll take this as read - ≅ это так, и нечего об этом толковать

    3. [ri:d] v (read [red])
    I
    1. 1) читать

    to read a book [a letter, Shakespeare] - читать книгу [письмо, Шекспира]

    to read smth. out of /from/ a book - а) вычитать что-л. в книге; б) процитировать что-л. из книги

    to read smth. over - а) прочитать (с начала до конца); б) перечитывать

    to read smth. over and over - снова и снова перечитывать что-л.

    to read smth. through - а) прочитать от начала до конца; he read the letter through six times - он прочитал всё письмо шесть раз; б) пробегать глазами ( текст)

    to read of smb.'s death [about a disaster] - прочитать о чьей-л. смерти [о катастрофе]

    to read round the class - школ. поочерёдно читать вслух ( в классе)

    to read oneself hoarse [stupid] - дочитаться до хрипоты [до одурения]

    to read smb. [oneself] to sleep - усыпить кого-л. [себя] чтением

    the boy has been read the story of Cinderella - мальчику прочли сказку о Золушке

    the invalid is read to for several hours daily - больному каждый день читают вслух по нескольку часов

    read❝of❞ instead of ❝for❞ - вместо of следует читать for

    did he speak extempore or read? - он говорил (без подготовки) или читал?

    I have read somewhere that... - я где-то прочёл, что...

    2) читаться

    the play reads better than it acts - пьеса читается лучше, чем звучит со сцены

    the book reads like a translation - книга читается /воспринимается/ как перевод

    this doesn't read like a child's composition - не похоже, чтобы это сочинение написал ребёнок

    2. зачитывать ( публично), оглашать

    to read a report to the meeting - а) огласить отчёт на заседании; б) сделать доклад на собрании

    read and approved - заслушано и одобрено (о протоколе, плане и т. п.)

    3. гласить

    the paragraph reads to the effect that all men are equal - в этом абзаце говорится /провозглашается/, что все люди равны

    how does the sentence read now? - как теперь звучит /сформулировано/ это предложение?

    this ticket reads to Boston - в билете сказано «до Бостона»

    the passage reads thus in early manuscripts - в ранних манускриптах это место читается так

    4. разбирать, расшифровывать; прочитать

    to read hieroglyphs [shorthand] - разбирать /расшифровывать/ иероглифы [стенограмму]

    the first letter on the coin is so rubbed that I cannot read it - первая буква на монете так стёрлась, что я не могу разобрать её

    to read a signal - воен., радио расшифровать сигнал

    do you read me? - как поняли?

    5. 1) толковать, интерпретировать

    (it is intended) to be read... - это надо понимать в том смысле, что...

    clause that may be read several ways - статья, допускающая несколько толкований

    my silence is not to be read as consent - моё молчание не следует считать согласием

    2) толковаться, подаваться в той или иной интерпретации

    the clause reads both ways - статью можно понимать /толковать/ двояко

    6. биол. «считывать» или декодировать генетическую информацию
    7. вчт. считывать информацию ( с носителя)
    II А
    1. 1) показывать (о приборе и т. п.)

    what does the speedometer read? - что на спидометре?; какая у нас сейчас скорость?

    2) снимать, считывать ( показания прибора)

    to read a thermometer [a barometer, an electric meter] - снимать показания термометра [барометра, электросчётчика]

    to read smb.'s blood pressure - измерять кому-л. кровяное давление

    to read an angle - топ. измерять угол

    2. 1) изучать (какой-л. предмет), заниматься (какой-л. отраслью знания)

    to read law [physics] - изучать право [физику]

    you must read harder next term - вам надо больше заниматься в будущем семестре

    2) (for) готовиться (к экзамену и т. п.)

    he spent three years reading for a degree in history - он потратил три года на подготовку к получению степени по истории

    3. парл. обсуждать и утверждать ( законопроект)

    the bill was read the first [the third] time - законопроект был принят в первом [в третьем] чтении [ср. reading 1 9]

    4. 1) разгадывать ( загадку)

    to read dreams - толковать /разгадывать/ сны

    to read men's hearts [men's thoughts] - читать в людских сердцах [чьи-л. мысли]

    you (can) read a person's character in his face - по лицу можно определить характер человека

    2) предсказывать (судьбу, будущее)

    to read smb.'s fortune - предсказывать чью-л. судьбу; гадать кому-л.

    to read futurity /the future/ - предсказывать будущее

    to read smb.'s hand /smb.'s palm/ - гадать кому-л. по руке

    to read the sky - а) предсказывать судьбу по звёздам; составлять гороскоп; б) предсказывать погоду; составлять прогноз погоды

    5. полигр. держать ( корректуру); вычитывать ( текст)

    to read proofs - читать /держать, править/ корректуру

    II Б
    1. to read smth. into smth. вкладывать особый смысл во что-л.; по-своему интерпретировать, толковать что-л.

    to read a compliment into what was intended as a rebuke - истолковать как комплимент то, что было задумано как упрёк

    to read into a sentence what is not there - видеть в предложении то, чего в нём нет, произвольно вносить в предложение свой смысл

    you are reading more into what I said than was intended - вы вкладываете в мои слова больше, чем я имел в виду

    you read too much into the text - вы вычитали из текста то, чего в нём нет

    we sometimes read our own thoughts into a poet's words - мы иногда склонны видеть в словах поэта то, что сами думаем

    2. 1) to read smb. out of smth. исключить кого-л. (из организации и т. п.; первоначально путём зачитывания решения об исключении)
    2) to be read out of smth. быть исключённым, изгнанным откуда-л., быть отлучённым от чего-л.
    3. to read oneself into smth. вчитываться во что-л.
    4. to read smth. into the record парл. заносить что-л. в протокол, приобщать что-л. к протоколу

    ♢

    to read smb. a lesson /a lecture/ - прочитать кому-л. нотацию, сделать внушение

    you wouldn't read about it - австрал. разг. вы представить себе не можете, что это такое ( выражает недоверие или отвращение)

    НБАРС > read

  • 4 read

    Ⅰ.
    read1 [ri:d]
    lire ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 2 (a), 2 (b), 2 (f), 2 (j), 3 (a), 3 (b) interpréter ⇒ 2 (c) comprendre ⇒ 2 (c) recevoir ⇒ 2 (d) étudier ⇒ 2 (e) indiquer ⇒ 2 (g) annoncer ⇒ 2 (h)
    (pt & pp read [red])
    1 noun
    ∎ to have a read lire;
    ∎ I enjoy a good read j'aime lire;
    ∎ he was having a quiet read il lisait tranquillement;
    ∎ can I have a read of your paper? est-ce que je peux jeter un coup d'œil sur ton journal?
    ∎ it's an easy read c'est facile à lire;
    ∎ her books are a good read ses livres se lisent bien
    (a) (book, magazine etc) lire; (bad handwriting, music) lire, déchiffrer;
    ∎ I read it in the paper je l'ai lu dans le journal;
    ∎ have you got anything to read? avez-vous de quoi lire ou quelque chose à lire?;
    ∎ to read sth over and over (again) lire et relire qch;
    ∎ everything I've read about the subject tout ce que j'ai lu à ce sujet;
    ∎ she read herself to sleep elle a lu jusqu'à ce qu'elle s'endorme;
    ∎ for "Barry" read "Harry" lire "Harry" à la place de "Barry";
    ∎ can you read music/braille/Italian? savez-vous lire la musique/le braille/l'italien?;
    ∎ to read sb's lips lire sur les lèvres de qn;
    ∎ figurative read my lips! écoutez-moi bien!;
    ∎ Administration read and approved (stamp on document) lu et approuvé;
    ∎ to take sth as read (evident) considérer qch comme allant de soi; (agreed upon) considérer qch comme entendu
    (b) (aloud) lire (à haute voix);
    ∎ to read sb sth, to read sth to sb lire qch à qn;
    ∎ read me a story lis-moi une histoire;
    ∎ to read a paper at a conference présenter un exposé à une conférence;
    ∎ Religion to read the lesson lire un passage de l'Évangile;
    ∎ to read the news Radio lire les informations; Television présenter le journal;
    ∎ Law to read a will exécuter la lecture d'un testament
    (c) (interpret → situation, behaviour) interpréter; (understand → person, mood) comprendre;
    ∎ I read it this way c'est comme ça que je l'interprète;
    ∎ to read sb's mind or thoughts lire dans les pensées de qn;
    ∎ to read sb's palm or hand lire les lignes de la main à qn;
    ∎ I can read him like a book! je sais comment il fonctionne!;
    ∎ Sport he reads the game very well c'est un très bon stratège;
    ∎ he read that well il a bien anticipé
    (d) (via radio) recevoir;
    ∎ do you read me? est-ce que vous me recevez?; figurative est-ce que tu me comprends?;
    ∎ reading you loud and clear je vous reçois cinq sur cinq; figurative oui, oui j'ai compris
    ∎ he read history il a étudié l'histoire, il a fait des études d'histoire;
    ∎ to read law/medicine faire son droit/sa médecine, faire des études de droit/de médecine
    (f) (temperature, thermometer, barometer) lire;
    ∎ to read the meter relever le compteur
    (g) (register → of gauge, dial, barometer) indiquer;
    ∎ the thermometer is reading 40° le thermomètre indique 40°
    (h) (announce → of notice) annoncer;
    ∎ a sign on the door read "staff only" un écriteau sur la porte indiquait "réservé au personnel";
    ∎ the inscription on the monument reads… on peut lire sur le monument…
    (i) (proofs) corriger
    (j) Computing (data, disk) lire;
    ∎ this computer only reads double-density disks cet ordinateur ne lit que les disquettes (à) double densité
    (a) (person) lire;
    ∎ she's learning to read elle apprend à lire;
    ∎ to read to sb faire la lecture à qn;
    ∎ to read aloud lire à haute voix;
    ∎ read quietly to yourselves lisez en silence;
    ∎ I enjoy reading j'aime beaucoup lire ou la lecture;
    ∎ I'd read about it in the papers je l'avais lu dans les journaux;
    ∎ we read of his death in the newspaper nous avons appris sa mort dans le journal;
    ∎ we've all read about or of such phenomena nous avons tous lu des textes qui traitent de tels phénomènes
    ∎ to read between the lines lire entre les lignes;
    ∎ she read in the cards that I would be famous elle a lu dans les cartes que je serais célèbre
    ∎ her article reads well/badly son article est bien/mal écrit;
    ∎ the table reads from left to right le tableau se lit de gauche à droite;
    ∎ the book reads like a translation à la lecture, on sent que ce roman est une traduction;
    ∎ article 22 reads as follows voici ce que dit l'article 22;
    ∎ her life story reads like a fairytale sa vie ressemble à un conte de fées
    (d) (gauge, meter etc)
    ∎ the dials read differently les cadrans n'indiquent pas le même chiffre
    ∎ what's he reading? qu'est-ce qu'il fait comme études?;
    ∎ British I'm reading history je fais des études d'histoire;
    ∎ to read for a degree préparer un diplôme;
    ∎ to read for the Bar faire des études de droit
    ►► Computing read head tête f de lecture
    Computing (data) lire (en mémoire)
    ∎ you shouldn't read too much into their silence vous ne devriez pas accorder trop d'importance à leur silence;
    ∎ you're reading far too much into it tu interprètes beaucoup trop
    (a) (names etc) énumérer ( from sur)
    (b) (figure on dial, scale etc) relever
    lire la suite
    (a) (aloud) lire (à haute voix)
    (b) Computing (data) sortir, extraire de la mémoire
    (c) American (expel) expulser
    (quickly) parcourir; (with special care) examiner; esp American (read again) relire
    (skim) parcourir; (examine closely) lire en détail, examiner;
    ∎ Theatre to read through a play faire la lecture d'une pièce
    étudier
    étudier
    ⓘ Read my lips Il s'agit d'un extrait de la formule utilisée par George Bush lors de sa campagne électorale de 1988, avant son élection à la présidence des États-Unis. La formule complète était: read my lips, no new taxes ("regardez bien mes lèvres: pas d'augmentation des impôts"). Aujourd'hui on utilise cette expression pour insister sur le fait que ce que l'on dit est vrai.
    Ⅱ.
    read2 [red]
    1 pt & pp of read
    ∎ he's widely read c'est un homme cultivé;
    ∎ her books are widely read ses livres sont très lus

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  • 7 read

    I [riːd]

    to have a read of — colloq. leggiucchiare [article, magazine]

    to be an easy read — essere un libro o una lettura facile

    II 1. [riːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere [book, map, music, sign]

    to read sth. to oneself — leggere qcs. in silenzio

    the card reads "Happy Birthday" — sul biglietto c'è scritto "buon compleanno"

    to read 29 degrees — [ thermometer] segnare 29 gradi

    3) (decipher) leggere [ braille]; decifrare [ handwriting]
    4) (interpret) riconoscere [ signs]; interpretare [intentions, reactions]; spiegare [ situation]

    to read sb.'s thoughts o mind leggere nei pensieri di qcn.; to read sb.'s mood capire di che umore è qcn.; to read palms leggere la mano; to read sth. into — leggere qcs. dietro a [comment, reply]

    5) BE univ. studiare [ history]
    6) (take a recording) leggere [meter, gauge, dial]
    7) rad. tel. sentire, ricevere [ person]
    8) inform. [ computer] leggere [data, file]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere (to sb. a qcn.)

    I read about it in the "Times" — ho letto qualcosa al proposito sul "Times"

    2) BE (study)
    •
    ••
    III 1. [red]
    passato, participio passato read II
    2.

    to take sth. as read — dare qcs. per scontato

    * * *
    [red]
    past tense, past participle; = read
    * * *
    read /ri:d/
    n.
    1 lettura: to have a quiet read, leggere in santa pace; a quick read, una lettura rapida
    3 (fam. USA) interpretazione: What's your read on it?, che interpretazione ne dai?
    ● (comput.) read access, accesso in lettura □ (comput.) read-only ► read-only □ (comput.) read permission, permesso (o autorizzazione) di lettura □ (comput., Internet) read receipt, conferma di lettura.
    ♦ (to) read /ri:d/
    (pass. e p. p. read /rɛd/), v. t. e i.
    1 leggere: Read it aloud, please, leggilo a voce alta, per favore!; to read a book [music], leggere un libro [la musica]; to read music at sight, leggere la musica a prima vista; to read French, leggere il francese
    2 interpretare: to read sb. 's silence as agreement, interpretare il silenzio di q. come consenso; I learned how to read their moods, ho imparato ad interpretare il loro umore; How do you read the situation?, come interpreti la situazione?; We read his words as an admission of failure, abbiamo interpretato le sue parole come un'ammissione di fallimento
    3 ( di scritta, cartello, ecc.) dire: The notice reads: keep out, il cartello dice: accesso vietato
    4 ( di strumento) registrare; segnare: The speedometer reads sixty miles per hour, il tachimetro segna sessanta miglia all'ora
    5 sembrare, suonare: His answer reads like a threat, la sua risposta suona come una minaccia; This book reads like a translation, questo libro dà l'impressione di essere una traduzione
    6 ( di libro, autore) – to read well [beautifully], essere piacevole [bello] a leggersi; to read badly, essere di lettura faticosa
    7 (antiq.) studiare ( all'università, ecc.): to read law [chemistry], studiar legge [chimica]; to read for the bar, studiare per diventare avvocato patrocinante
    8 (fam. USA) capire; afferrare l'idea: Do you read me?, mi hai capito?
    ● (fig.) to read between the lines, leggere fra le righe □ to read sb. like a book, leggere in q. come in un libro aperto □ to read sb. 's hand, leggere la mano a q. □ to read hieroglyphs, decifrare geroglifici □ (fam.) read my lips!, ficcatelo bene in testa! □ to read men's hearts, leggere nel cuore degli uomini □ to read the sky, scrutare il cielo □ (fig.) to take st. as read, dare qc. per scontato □ to read to oneself, leggere in silenzio □ to read oneself to sleep, leggere fino ad addormentarsi □ to read too much into sb. 's words, attribuire un significato eccessivo (o dare un peso eccessivo) alle parole di q. □ a well-read man, un uomo con una buona cultura generale □ well-read in history, che ha buone conoscenze di storia □ to read widely, leggere molto □ the most widely read poet, il poeta più letto.
    * * *
    I [riːd]

    to have a read of — colloq. leggiucchiare [article, magazine]

    to be an easy read — essere un libro o una lettura facile

    II 1. [riːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere [book, map, music, sign]

    to read sth. to oneself — leggere qcs. in silenzio

    the card reads "Happy Birthday" — sul biglietto c'è scritto "buon compleanno"

    to read 29 degrees — [ thermometer] segnare 29 gradi

    3) (decipher) leggere [ braille]; decifrare [ handwriting]
    4) (interpret) riconoscere [ signs]; interpretare [intentions, reactions]; spiegare [ situation]

    to read sb.'s thoughts o mind leggere nei pensieri di qcn.; to read sb.'s mood capire di che umore è qcn.; to read palms leggere la mano; to read sth. into — leggere qcs. dietro a [comment, reply]

    5) BE univ. studiare [ history]
    6) (take a recording) leggere [meter, gauge, dial]
    7) rad. tel. sentire, ricevere [ person]
    8) inform. [ computer] leggere [data, file]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere (to sb. a qcn.)

    I read about it in the "Times" — ho letto qualcosa al proposito sul "Times"

    2) BE (study)
    •
    ••
    III 1. [red]
    passato, participio passato read II
    2.

    to take sth. as read — dare qcs. per scontato

    English-Italian dictionary > read

  • 8 read

    ̈ɪri:d I
    1. гл.
    1) читать, прочитать Can you read French? ≈ Ты умеешь читать по-французски? It was sad to read of the death of the famous old actress. ≈ Было очень грустно узнать о смерти этой знаменитой старой актрисы. read to oneself
    2) понимать, разгадывать( что-л.), находить объяснение( чему-л.) read a riddle read the cards read smb.'s mind read smb.'s hand
    3) содержать( какой-л.) смысл, гласить a telegram reading as follows ≈ телеграмма следующего содержания
    4) а) показывать( о приборе и т. п.) What does the speedometer read? ≈ Каковы показания спидометра? б) снимать показания( прибора), измерять( что-л.) to read an angle ≈ измерить угол
    5) изучать to read history ≈ изучать историю ∙ read back read for read in read into read off read out read over read up read with read a lesson read between the lines read the time read the clock
    2. сущ. чтение;
    время, проведенное в чтении II прил. грамотный, знающий, начитанный, образованный, сведущий he is poorly read in history ≈ он слабо знает историю Syn: expert, versed( разговорное) чтение, время, проведенное за чтением - to enjoy a good * наслаждаться чтением интересной книги - to take a quick * at a book бегло просмотреть книгу - time for a long * время, чтобы всласть почитать( компьютерное) считывание (данных) (часто in) начитанный, сведущий (в какой-л. области), имеющий какую-л. подготовку - a widely * man широко образованный человек - to be well * in a subject иметь хорошую подготовку в какой-л. области прочитанный - to hear a * speech выслушать речь, которая читалась по тексту - the most * of all books книга, у которой больше всего читателей > to take as * утвердить без зачитывания;
    принимать на веру, считать само собой разумеющимся > the minutes were taken as * протокол предыдущего заседания был утвержден без его оглашения > we'll take this as * это так, и нечего об этом толковать читать - to * a book читать книгу - to * smth. out of /from/ a book вычитать что-л. в книге;
    процитировать что-л. из книги - to * to oneself читать про себя - * the letter to yourself прочтите письмо про себя - to * smth. over прочитать (с начала до конца) ;
    перечитывать - to * smth. over and over снова и снова перечитывать что-л. - to * smth. through прочитать от начала до конца;
    пробегать глазами (текст) - he read the letter through six times он прочитал все письмо шесть раз - to * through the contract просмотреть соглашение - to * of smb.'s death прочитать о чьей-л. смерти - to * aloud читать вслух - to * out /loud/ прочитать вслух - to * round the class (школьное) поочередно читать вслух (в классе) - he can * several languages он умеет читать на нескольких языках - to * oneself hoarse дочитаться до хрипоты - to * smb. to sleep усыпить кого-л. чтением - the boy has been read the story of Cinderella мальчику прочли сказку о Золушке - the invalid is read to for several hours daily больному каждый день читают вслух по нескольку часов - * "of" instead of "for" вместо "of" следует читать "for" - did he speak extempore or *? он говорил (без подготовки) или читал? - he does not * or write он не умеет не читать, ни писать - I have read somewhere that... я где-то прочел, что... - I have read of it я читал об этом читаться - the play *s better than it acts пьеса читается лучше, чем звучит со сцены - the book *s like a translation книга читается /воспринимается/ как перевод - the sentence *s oddly это предложение странно звучит - this doesn't * like a child's composition не похоже, чтобы это сочинение написал ребенок зачитывать (публично), оглашать - to * a report to the meeting огласить отчет на заседании;
    сделать доклад на собрании - read and approved заслушано и одобрено (о протоколе, плане и т. п.) - after the will had been read после оглашения завещания гласить - the document *s as follows документ гласит следующее - the paragraph *s to the effect that all men are equal в этом абзаце говорится /провозглашается/, что все люди равны - how does the sentence * now? как теперь звучит /сформулировано/ это предложение? - this ticket *s to Boston в билете сказано "до Бостона" - the passage *s thus in early manuscripts в ранних манускриптах это место читается так разбирать, расшифровывать;
    прочитать - to * hieroglyphs разбирать /расшифровывать/ иероглифы - to * the Morse system знать азбуку Морзе - to * a map читать карту - to * music at sight читать ноты с листа - to * a piece of music разобрать музыкальную пьесу - the first letter on the coin is so rubbed that I cannot * it первая буква на монете так стерлась, что я не могу разобрать ее - to * a signal( военное) (радиотехника) расшифровать сигнал - do you * me? как поняли? толковать, интерпретировать - (it is intended) to be read... это надо понимать в том смысле, что... - clause that may be read several ways статья, допускающая несколько толкований - my silence is not to be read as consent мое молчание не следует считать согласием толковаться, подаваться в той или иной интерпретации - the clause *s both ways статью можно понимать /толковать/ двояко (биология) "считывать" или декодировать генетическую информацию( компьютерное) считывать информацию( с носителя) показывать (о приборе и т. п.) - thermometer *s 33 degrees термометр показывает 33 градуса - what does the speedometer *? что на спидометре?;
    какая у нас сейчас скорость? снимать, считывать ( показания прибора) - to * a thermometer снимать показания термометра - to * smb.'s blood pressure измерять кому-л. кровяное давление - to * an angle (топография) измерять угол изучать (какой-л. предмет), заниматься( какой-л. отраслью знания) - to * law изучать право - to * for the law учиться на юридическом факультете - you must * harder next term вам надо больше заниматься в будущем семестре (for) готовиться( к экзамену и т. п.) - he spent three years *ing for a degree in history он потратил три года на подготовку к получению степени по истории (парламентское) обсуждать и утверждать (законопроект) - the bill was read the first time законопроект был принят в первом чтении разгадывать (загадку) - to * a riddle разгадать загадку - to * dreams толковать /разгадывать/ сны - to * an omen истолковать примету - to * men's hearts читать в людских сердцах - to * the signs of the times угадывать знамения времени - you (can) * a person's character in his face по лицу можно определить характер человека предсказывать( судьбу, будущее) - to * smb.'s fortune предсказывать чью-л. судьбу;
    гадать кому-л. - to * futurity /the future/ предсказывать будущее - to * smb.'s hand /smb.'s palm/ гадать кому-л. по руке - to * the cards гадать на картах - to * the sky предсказывать судьбу по звездам;
    составлять гороскоп;
    предсказывать погоду;
    составлять прогноз погоды (полиграфия) держать( корректуру) ;
    вычитывать( текст) - to * proofs читать /держать, править/ корректуру to read smth. into smth. вкладывать особый смысл во что-л.;
    по-своему интерпретировать, толковать что-л. - to * a compliment into what was intended as a rebuke истолковать как комплимент то, что было задумано как упрек - to * into a sentence what is not there видеть в предложении то, чего в нем нет;
    произвольно вносить в предложение свой смысл - you are *ing more into what I said than was intended вы вкладываете в мои слова больше, чем я имел в виду - you read too much into the text вы вычитали из текста то, чего в нем нет - we sometimes * our own thoughts into a poet's words мы иногда склонны видеть в словах поэта то, что сами думаем - to read smb. out of smth. исключить кого-л. (из организации и т. п.;
    первоначально путем зачитывания решения об исключении) - to be read out of smth. быть исключенным, изгнанным откуда-л., быть отлученным от чего-л. - to read oneself into smth. вчитываться во что-л. - to * oneself into a langauge овладеть языком путем чтения - to read smth. into the record( парламентское) заносить что-л. в протокол, приобщать что-л. к протоколу > to * smb. sa lesson /a lecture/ прочитать кому-л. нотацию, сделать внушение > to * between the lines читать между строк > you wouldn't * about it (австралийское) (разговорное) вы представить себе не можете, что это такое (выражает недоверие или отвращение) amount ~ is less than size in header вчт. объем считанных данных меньше указанного взаголовке backward ~ вчт. чтение в обратном направлении to ~ a piece of music муз. разобрать пьесу;
    the bill was read парл. законопроект был представлен на обсуждение check ~ вчт. котнтрольное считывание concurrent ~ вчт. параллельное чтение destructive ~ вчт. считывание с разрушением exclusive ~ вчт. монопольное чтение ~ чтение;
    время, проведенное в чтении;
    to have a quiet read почитать в тишине ~ в сочетаниях) начитанный, сведущий, знающий, образованный;
    he is poorly read in history он слабо знает историю ~ изучать;
    he is reading law он изучает право;
    to read for the Bar готовиться к адвокатуре;
    read off разг. объяснять, выражать his face doesn't ~ off его лицо ничего не выражает;
    read out исключать из организации;
    read up специально изучать;
    to read up for examinations готовиться к экзаменам it is intended to be ~... это надо понимать в том смысле, что..., to read one's thoughts into a poet's words вкладывать собственный смысл в слова поэта ~ толковать;
    объяснять;
    my silence is not to be read as consent мое молчание не следует принимать за согласие nondestructive ~ вчт. считывание без разрушения ~ гласить;
    the passage quoted reads as follows в цитате говорится ~ with заниматься (с кем-л.) ;
    to read (smb.) a lesson сделать выговор, внушение ( кому-л.) to ~ a piece of music муз. разобрать пьесу;
    the bill was read парл. законопроект был представлен на обсуждение to ~ a riddle разгадать загадку;
    to read the cards гадать на картах ~ (~) читать;
    to read aloud, to read out (loud) читать вслух;
    to read (smb.) to sleep усыплять( кого-л.) чтением ~ as follows гласит следующее ~ снимать показания (прибора и т. п.) ;
    to read the electric meter снимать показания электрического счетчика;
    to read (smb.'s) blood pressure измерять кровяное давление ~ изучать;
    he is reading law он изучает право;
    to read for the Bar готовиться к адвокатуре;
    read off разг. объяснять, выражать to ~ (smb.'s) mind (или thoughts) читать чужие мысли;
    to read (smb.'s) hand (или palm) гадать по руке ~ изучать;
    he is reading law он изучает право;
    to read for the Bar готовиться к адвокатуре;
    read off разг. объяснять, выражать it is intended to be ~... это надо понимать в том смысле, что..., to read one's thoughts into a poet's words вкладывать собственный смысл в слова поэта to ~ oneself hoarse (stupid) дочитаться до хрипоты (одурения) ;
    to read to oneself читать про себя ~ (~) читать;
    to read aloud, to read out (loud) читать вслух;
    to read (smb.) to sleep усыплять (кого-л.) чтением his face doesn't ~ off его лицо ничего не выражает;
    read out исключать из организации;
    read up специально изучать;
    to read up for examinations готовиться к экзаменам to ~ a riddle разгадать загадку;
    to read the cards гадать на картах ~ снимать показания (прибора и т. п.) ;
    to read the electric meter снимать показания электрического счетчика;
    to read (smb.'s) blood pressure измерять кровяное давление to ~ between the lines читать между строк;
    to read the time (или the clock) уметь определять время по часам( о ребенке) to ~ oneself hoarse (stupid) дочитаться до хрипоты (одурения) ;
    to read to oneself читать про себя ~ (~) читать;
    to read aloud, to read out (loud) читать вслух;
    to read (smb.) to sleep усыплять (кого-л.) чтением his face doesn't ~ off его лицо ничего не выражает;
    read out исключать из организации;
    read up специально изучать;
    to read up for examinations готовиться к экзаменам his face doesn't ~ off его лицо ничего не выражает;
    read out исключать из организации;
    read up специально изучать;
    to read up for examinations готовиться к экзаменам ~ with заниматься (с кем-л.) ;
    to read (smb.) a lesson сделать выговор, внушение (кому-л.) the ~s вчт. прочитанное ~ показывать (о приборе и т. п.) ;
    the thermometer reads three degrees above freezing-point термометр показывает три градуса выше нуля

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > read

  • 9 read

    1. transitive verb,

    read somebody something, read something to somebody — jemandem etwas vorlesen; see also academic.ru/73191/take">take 1. 31)

    2) (show a reading of) anzeigen
    3) (interpret) deuten

    read somebody's hand — jemandem aus der Hand lesen

    read somebody's mind or thoughts — jemandes Gedanken lesen

    read something into something — etwas in etwas (Akk.) hineinlesen

    4) (Brit. Univ.): (study) studieren
    2. intransitive verb,
    2) (convey meaning) lauten
    3) (affect reader) sich lesen
    3. noun
    1)

    have a quiet read — in Ruhe lesen

    2) (Brit. coll.): (reading matter)
    4.
    [red] adjective

    widely or deeply read — sehr belesen [Person]

    the most widely read book/author — das meistgelesene Buch/der meistgelesene Autor

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [red]
    past tense, past participle; = read
    * * *
    read1
    [ri:d]
    1. BRIT, AUS (act of reading) Lesen nt
    to have a quiet \read ( fam) in Ruhe lesen
    to have a \read of sth in etw akk hineinschauen fam, einen Blick in etw akk werfen
    2. ( fam: book)
    good/bad \read spannende/langweilige Lektüre
    to be a good \read sich akk gut lesen [lassen]
    3. AM (interpretation) Lesart f
    II. vt
    <read, read>
    1. (understand written material)
    ▪ to \read sth etw lesen; handwriting etw entziffern
    to \read sth avidly etw leidenschaftlich gern lesen
    to \read sth voraciously etw geradezu verschlingen
    to \read a map eine Karte lesen
    2. MUS
    to \read music Noten lesen
    3. (speak aloud)
    to \read sth aloud [or out loud] etw laut vorlesen
    ▪ to \read sb sth [or sth to sb] jdm etw vorlesen
    4. (discern)
    to \read an emotion ein Gefühl erraten
    to \read sb's face in jds Gesicht lesen
    to \read sth in sb's face jdm etw vom Gesicht ablesen
    5. (interpret) interpretieren, deuten
    if I've \read the situation aright,... wenn ich die Situation richtig verstehe,...
    ▪ to \read sth for sth:
    on page 19, for Blitish, please \read British auf Seite 19 muss es statt Blitish British heißen
    ▪ to \read sth etw Korrektur lesen
    to \read a proof Korrektur lesen
    8. POL, LAW
    to \read a bill/measure eine Gesetzesvorlage/gesetzliche Verfügung lesen
    9. (inspect and record)
    ▪ to \read sth etw ablesen
    to \read a meter einen Zählerstand ablesen
    10. (show information)
    ▪ to \read sth etw anzeigen
    the thermometer is \reading 40°C in the shade das Thermometer zeigt 40°C im Schatten an
    ▪ to \read sth chemistry, English, history etw studieren
    12. COMPUT
    to \read a card eine Karte [ein]lesen
    to \read data Daten lesen
    \read/write head Lese-/Schreibkopf
    \read only nur zum Lesen
    \read-only memory Festwertspeicher m
    13. RADIO, TELEC
    ▪ to \read sb jdn verstehen; ( fig: understand sb's meaning) jdn verstehen
    do you \read me? — loud and clear können Sie mich verstehen? — laut und deutlich
    I don't \read you ich verstehe nicht, was du meinst
    14. (prophesy)
    to \read sb's palm jdm aus der Hand lesen
    to \read the tea leaves aus dem Kaffeesatz lesen
    to \read sth in the cards etw in den Karten lesen
    15.
    ▶ to \read sb like a book in jdm lesen können wie in einem [offenen] Buch
    ▶ to \read sb a lecture ( form) jdm die Leviten lesen fam
    ▶ \read my lips! hör [mal] ganz genau zu!
    ▶ to \read sb's lips jdm von den Lippen lesen
    ▶ to \read sb's mind [or thoughts] jds Gedanken lesen
    ▶ to \read sb the Riot Act jdm gehörig die Leviten lesen fam
    ▶ to \read the runes BRIT die Zeichen der Zeit erkennen
    III. vi
    <read, read>
    to \read avidly leidenschaftlich gern lesen
    to \read voraciously Bücher geradezu verschlingen
    ▪ to \read about [or of] sb/sth über jdn/etw lesen
    to \read aloud [or out loud] [to sb] [jdm] laut vorlesen
    3. (create impression)
    to \read well book, letter, article, magazine sich akk gut lesen
    4. (have wording) lauten
    there was a sign \reading “No Smoking” auf einem Schild stand „Rauchen verboten“
    5. THEAT, FILM
    to \read for a part sich akk in eine Rolle einlesen
    ▪ to \read for sth etw studieren
    to \read for the Bar Jura [o ÖSTERR Jus] studieren
    7. (be interpreted as)
    ▪ to \read as sth als etw akk interpretiert werden
    8.
    ▶ to \read between the lines zwischen den Zeilen lesen
    read2
    [red]
    I. vt, vi pt, pp of read
    II. adj
    ▶ to take sth as \read etw als selbstverständlich voraussetzen
    we will take the minutes as \read wir setzen das Protokoll als bekannt voraus
    * * *
    I [riːd] vb: pret, ptp read [red]
    1. vt
    1) (ALSO COMPUT) lesen; (to sb) vorlesen (
    to +dat)

    I read him to sleep — ich las ihm vor, bis er einschlief

    for "meet" read "met" — anstelle or an Stelle von "meet" soll "met" stehen

    2) (= interpret) thoughts, feelings lesen; dream deuten; words verstehen; person einschätzen können

    to read sb's thoughts/mind — jds Gedanken lesen

    to read the tea leaves —

    3) (Brit UNIV form = study) studieren
    4) thermometer, barometer etc sehen auf (+acc), ablesen
    5) (meter) (an)zeigen, stehen auf (+dat); (flight etc instruments) anzeigen

    the thermometer reads 37° — das Thermometer steht auf or zeigt 37°

    6) (TELEC) verstehen

    do you read me? (Telec) — können Sie mich verstehen?; (fig) haben Sie mich verstanden?

    2. vi
    1) (= read books etc) lesen; (to sb) vorlesen (
    to +dat)

    she reads well — sie liest gut; (learner, beginner) sie kann schon gut lesen

    will you read to me, Mummy? — Mutti, liest du mir etwas vor?

    2)

    (= convey impression when read) this paragraph reads/doesn't read well — dieser Abschnitt liest sich gut/nicht gut

    this reads like an official report/a translation — das klingt wie ein offizieller Bericht/eine Übersetzung

    that's how it reads to me — so verstehe ich das

    3) (= have wording) lauten

    the letter reads as follows — der Brief geht so or lautet folgendermaßen

    4) (Brit UNIV form

    = study) to read for an examination — sich auf eine Prüfung vorbereiten

    See:
    → bar
    3. n
    II [red] pret, ptp of read I
    adj

    he is well/not very well read — er ist sehr/wenig belesen

    * * *
    read1 [riːd]
    A s
    a) Lesen n:
    can I have a read in your paper? kann ich mal in deine Zeitung schauen?;
    give sth a careful read etwas sorgfältig durchlesen
    b) Lektüre f:
    it is a good read es liest sich gut
    B v/t prät und pperf read [red]
    1. a) allg lesen:
    for “Jean” read “John” statt „Jean“ lies „John“;
    take sth as read etwas als selbstverständlich voraussetzen;
    we can take it as read that … wir können davon ausgehen, dass …;
    ability to read the game SPORT Spielübersicht f
    b) auch read out vorlesen ( sth to sb jemandem etwas): → riot A 1
    c) auch read from notes eine Rede etc ablesen
    d) einen Text Korrektur lesen
    e) eine Vorlesung, einen Vortrag halten
    f) eine Erklärung etc verlesen:
    read back ein Stenogramm etc noch einmal vorlesen ( to sb jemandem);
    read sth into etwas in einen Text hineinlesen;
    read off (sich) etwas durchlesen ( → B 9);
    read out jemanden ausstoßen (of aus einer Partei etc)( → B 10);
    a) auch read through (sich) etwas durchlesen
    b) (formell) vor-, verlesen (Notar etc);
    a) sich in etwas einlesen oder -arbeiten,
    b) etwas nachlesen
    2. Funkverkehr: verstehen:
    do you read me?
    a) können Sie mich verstehen?,
    b) fig haben Sie mich verstanden?
    3. PARL eine Gesetzesvorlage lesen:
    the bill was read for the third time die Gesetzesvorlage wurde in dritter Lesung behandelt
    4. eine Kurzschrift etc lesen (können), Zeichensprache verstehen:
    he reads ( oder can read) the clock er kennt die Uhr;
    read music Noten lesen
    5. einen Traum etc deuten: → fortune 3, palm1 A 1
    6. ein Rätsel lösen
    7. jemandes Charakter etc durchschauen:
    read sb like a book in jemandem lesen wie in einem Buch;
    read sb’s face in jemandes Gesicht lesen; → thought1 1
    8. einen Satz etc auslegen, auffassen, deuten, verstehen
    9. a) (an)zeigen:
    the thermometer reads 20°
    b) auch read off einen Instrumentenstand etc ablesen ( → B 1)
    10. COMPUT lesen, abfühlen:
    read in einlesen, -geben;
    read out auslesen, -geben ( → B 1)
    11. besonders Br studieren, hören: → law1 5
    C v/i
    1. lesen:
    he has no time to read er hat keine Zeit zum Lesen;
    I have read about it ich habe davon gelesen; → line1 A 3
    2. (vor)lesen:
    read to sb jemandem vorlesen ( from aus)
    3. eine (Vor)Lesung oder einen Vortrag halten
    4. (for) besonders Br sich vorbereiten (auf eine Prüfung etc), (etwas) studieren:
    read up on sich in etwas einlesen oder -arbeiten; → bar A 19
    5. sich gut etc lesen (lassen):
    it reads like a translation es liest sich oder klingt wie eine Übersetzung
    6. lauten:
    7. sich auslegen lassen:
    read2 [red]
    A prät und pperf von read1
    B adj
    1. gelesen:
    the most-read book das meistgelesene Buch
    2. → well-read
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,

    read somebody something, read something to somebody — jemandem etwas vorlesen; see also take 1. 31)

    3) (interpret) deuten

    read somebody's mind or thoughts — jemandes Gedanken lesen

    4) (Brit. Univ.): (study) studieren
    2. intransitive verb,
    3) (affect reader) sich lesen
    3. noun
    1)
    2) (Brit. coll.): (reading matter)
    4.
    [red] adjective

    widely or deeply read — sehr belesen [Person]

    the most widely read book/author — das meistgelesene Buch/der meistgelesene Autor

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    p.p.
    gelesen p.p. v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: read)
    = eingeben v.
    einlesen v.
    lesen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: las, gelesen)

    English-german dictionary > read

  • 10 read

    red
    past tense, past participle; = read
    read vb leer
    tr[riːd]
    transitive verb (pt & pp read tr[red])
    1 (gen) leer
    ■ have you read his latest novel? ¿has leído su última novela?
    2 (meter) hacer la lectura de
    3 (interpret) interpretar; (decipher) descifrar
    ■ the situation as I read it... la situación tal como la veo yo...
    4 (at university) estudiar
    5 (instrument) indicar, marcar
    6 (sign, notice) decir, poner
    ■ 'Closed for holidays" read the sign on the door "Cerrado por vacaciones" decía el letrero en la puerta
    1 (gen) leer
    ■ have you read about the accident in the paper? ¿has leído lo del accidente en el diario?
    2 (text, passage)
    1
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be well read / widely read tener una gran cultura
    to take something as read dar algo por sentado
    read ['ri:d] v, read ['rɛd] ; reading vt
    1) : leer
    to read a story: leer un cuento
    2) interpret: interpretar
    it can be read two ways: se puede interpretar de dos maneras
    3) : decir, poner
    the sign read „No smoking”: el letrero decía „No Fumar”
    4) : marcar
    the thermometer reads 70°: el termómetro marca 70°
    read vi
    1) : leer
    he can read: sabe leer
    2) say: decir
    the list reads as follows: la lista dice lo siguiente
    read n
    to be a good read : ser una lectura amena
    adj.
    • leído, -a adj.
    pret., p.p.
    (Preterito definido y participio pasivo de "to read")
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: read) = leer v.

    I
    1. riːd
    (past & past p read red) transitive verb
    1) \<\<book/words/map/music\>\> leer*

    for `800', read `80' — donde dice 800 léase 80

    to read somebody's mind o thoughts — adivinarle or leerle* el pensamiento a alguien

    to take something as read — red dar* algo por sentado or por hecho

    2)
    a) ( interpret) \<\<sign/mood/situation\>\> interpretar

    to read something INTO something: I think you're reading too much into it — creo que le estás dando demasiada importancia

    b) (hear, receive) ( Telec colloq)

    do you read me, alpha? — ¿alfa, me recibe?

    3)
    a) \<\<sign/notice\>\> decir*

    the sign read red `closed for repairs' — el letrero decía or ponía `cerrado por reformas'

    b) ( indicate) \<\<thermometer/gauge\>\> marcar*
    c) ( note indication) \<\<thermometer/meter\>\> leer*
    4) (BrE Educ) estudiar ( en la universidad)

    2.
    vi
    1) \<\<person\>\> leer*

    to read TO somebody — leerle* a alguien

    to read ABOUT something/somebody: I read red about it in the paper lo leí en el diario; to read THROUGH something — leer* algo

    2)
    b) ( have as text) decir*

    his letter reads as follows:... — su carta dice lo siguiente...

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II riːd
    noun (no pl)

    it's a good read — es ameno, es de lectura amena

    to give something a quick read — hojear or leer* algo por encima


    III red

    to be widely o well read — ser* muy leído, ser* de gran or amplia cultura

    [riːd] (pt, pp read) [ˌred]
    1. VT
    1) [+ book, poem, story, music, sign] leer; [+ author] leer a

    can you read Russian? — ¿sabes leer en ruso?

    I can't read your writing — no entiendo tu letra, no puedo leer tu letra

    for "boon" read "bone" — en lugar de "boon" léase "bone"

    I read "good" as "mood" — al leer confundí "good" con "mood"

    to read sth to sb, to read sb sth — leer algo a algn

    to read sth to o.s. — leer algo para sí mismo

    • to read sb's lips — leer los labios a algn

    read my lips — (fig) fíjate bien en lo que digo

    • to read the news — leer las noticias

    to read o.s. to sleep — leer hasta quedarse dormido

    - take sth as read

    to take the minutes as read — (in meeting) dar las actas por leídas

    riot
    2) (esp Brit)
    (Univ) (=study)

    to read chemistry — estudiar química, cursar estudios de química

    3) (=interpret) [+ map, meter, thermometer] leer; [+ information, remarks, expression, situation] interpretar; [+ person] entender

    • to read sth as sth — interpretar algo como algo

    • to read the future — leer or adivinar el porvenir

    • to read sb's hand or palm — leerle la mano a algn

    • to read sth into sth, you're reading too much into it — le estás dando demasiada importancia

    • to read sb's mind or thoughts — leerle el pensamiento a algn, adivinar el pensamiento a algn

    book 1., 1)
    4) (Telec)

    do you read me? — ¿me oye?

    5) (=say, indicate) [notice] decir; [thermometer, instrument] indicar, marcar

    it should read "friends" not "fiends" — debería decir or poner "friends", no "fiends"

    the sign on the bus read "private, not in service" — el letrero del autobús decía or en el letrero del autobús ponía "privado, fuera de servicio"

    6) (Comput) leer
    2. VI
    1) [person] leer

    • to read about sth/sb — leer sobre or acerca de algo/algn

    I've read about him — he leído sobre or acerca de él

    I'm reading about Napoleon — me estoy documentando sobre Napoleón, estoy leyendo acerca de Napoleón

    • to read aloud — leer en voz alta

    • the reading public — el público que lee

    • to read silently — leer para sí

    • to read through sth — leer algo de principio a fin

    • to read to sb, he read to us from the Bible — nos leyó extractos de la Biblia

    to read to o.s. — leer para sí

    - read between the lines
    2) (=give impression)

    it would read better if you put... — quedaría mejor si pusieras...

    3) (=say, indicate) decir
    4) (=study) estudiar

    • to read for a degree — hacer una carrera, estudiar la licenciatura

    3.

    can I have a read of your paper? — ¿puedo echarle un vistazo a tu periódico?

    4.
    CPD

    read head N — (Comput) cabezal m lector

    * * *

    I
    1. [riːd]
    (past & past p read [red]) transitive verb
    1) \<\<book/words/map/music\>\> leer*

    for `800', read `80' — donde dice 800 léase 80

    to read somebody's mind o thoughts — adivinarle or leerle* el pensamiento a alguien

    to take something as read — [red] dar* algo por sentado or por hecho

    2)
    a) ( interpret) \<\<sign/mood/situation\>\> interpretar

    to read something INTO something: I think you're reading too much into it — creo que le estás dando demasiada importancia

    b) (hear, receive) ( Telec colloq)

    do you read me, alpha? — ¿alfa, me recibe?

    3)
    a) \<\<sign/notice\>\> decir*

    the sign read [red] `closed for repairs' — el letrero decía or ponía `cerrado por reformas'

    b) ( indicate) \<\<thermometer/gauge\>\> marcar*
    c) ( note indication) \<\<thermometer/meter\>\> leer*
    4) (BrE Educ) estudiar ( en la universidad)

    2.
    vi
    1) \<\<person\>\> leer*

    to read TO somebody — leerle* a alguien

    to read ABOUT something/somebody: I read [red] about it in the paper lo leí en el diario; to read THROUGH something — leer* algo

    2)
    b) ( have as text) decir*

    his letter reads as follows:... — su carta dice lo siguiente...

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II [riːd]
    noun (no pl)

    it's a good read — es ameno, es de lectura amena

    to give something a quick read — hojear or leer* algo por encima


    III [red]

    to be widely o well read — ser* muy leído, ser* de gran or amplia cultura

    English-spanish dictionary > read

  • 11 read

    n. lezen
    --------
    v. lezen; voorlezen; begrijpen; leren; uitleggen
    read1
    [ rie:d] 〈zelfstandig naamwoord; geen meervoud〉
    ♦voorbeelden:
    she had a quiet read • zij zat rustig te lezen
         that book is a terrific read • dat is een heerlijk boek om te lezen
    ————————
    read2
    〈 read, read [ red]〉
    1  studeren ⇒ leren
    2  zich laten lezen ⇒ lezen, ken
    3  moeten worden gelezen ⇒ gaan, lopen
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   read for a degree in Law • rechten studeren
    2   your essay reads like a translation • je opstel kt als een vertaling
         Ibsen's plays read easily • de stukken van Ibsen lezen gemakkelijk
    3   the law reads that • volgens de wet
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   read over/through • doorlezen, overlezen
    2   read out the instructions • de instructies voorlezen
    1  lezen ⇒ begrijpen, weten te gebruiken
    2  uitleggen ⇒ interpreteren, voorspellen 〈 toekomst〉; 〈 figuurlijk〉 doorgronden, doorzien
    4  aangeven ⇒ tonen, laten zien
    5 〈 computer〉in/uitvoeren 〈 gegevens〉 ⇒ (in)lezen, opnemen uit
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   〈 sport〉 read the game • spelinzicht/overzicht hebben
         〈 sport〉 read the game • iemand tegen het zere been schoppen
         read music • muziek lezen
    3   read psychology • psychologie studeren
         widely read • zeer belezen
         read up • bestuderen
    4   the thermometer reads twenty degrees • de thermometer geeft twintig graden aan
    〈 Amerikaans-Engels〉 read out someone • iemand royeren/uitstoten
         he read more into her words than she'd ever meant • hij had meer in haar woorden gelegd dan zij ooit had bedoeld

    English-Dutch dictionary > read

  • 12 read

    read [ri:d]
    (preterite, past participle read) [red]
       a. [+ book, letter] lire ; [+ music, bad handwriting] déchiffrer
    • read my lips! vous m'avez bien compris ?
       b. ( = understand) comprendre
       c. ( = study) étudier
    • to read medicine/law faire (des études de) médecine/droit
       d. [instruments] indiquer
    • the thermometer reads 37° le thermomètre indique 37°
    • do you read me? est-ce que vous me recevez ? ; (figurative) vous me comprenez ?
       a. lire
    • the letter reads thus... voici ce que dit la lettre...
    3. noun
    * * *
    1. [riːd]

    to have a read of — (colloq) lire [article, magazine]

    2. [riːd]
    transitive verb (prét, pp read [red])
    1) ( in text etc) lire [book, map, music, sign]
    2) ( say)

    the card reads ‘Happy Birthday Dad’ — sur la carte il est écrit ‘bon anniversaire Papa’

    3) ( decipher) lire [braille, handwriting]
    4) ( interpret) reconnaître [signs]; interpréter [intentions, reactions]; voir [situation]

    to read somebody's thoughts ou mind — lire dans les pensées de quelqu'un

    5) University faire des études de [history etc]
    6) ( take a recording) relever [meter]; lire [dial]
    7) Radio, Telecommunications recevoir [person]
    3. [riːd]
    intransitive verb (prét, pp read [red])
    1) ( look at or articulate text) lire ( to somebody à quelqu'un)
    2) GB University

    to read for a degree — ≈ préparer une licence (in de)

    the document reads well/badly — le document se lit bien/mal

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    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    English-French dictionary > read

  • 13 Read

    I [riːd]

    to have a read of — colloq. leggiucchiare [article, magazine]

    to be an easy read — essere un libro o una lettura facile

    II 1. [riːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere [book, map, music, sign]

    to read sth. to oneself — leggere qcs. in silenzio

    the card reads "Happy Birthday" — sul biglietto c'è scritto "buon compleanno"

    to read 29 degrees — [ thermometer] segnare 29 gradi

    3) (decipher) leggere [ braille]; decifrare [ handwriting]
    4) (interpret) riconoscere [ signs]; interpretare [intentions, reactions]; spiegare [ situation]

    to read sb.'s thoughts o mind leggere nei pensieri di qcn.; to read sb.'s mood capire di che umore è qcn.; to read palms leggere la mano; to read sth. into — leggere qcs. dietro a [comment, reply]

    5) BE univ. studiare [ history]
    6) (take a recording) leggere [meter, gauge, dial]
    7) rad. tel. sentire, ricevere [ person]
    8) inform. [ computer] leggere [data, file]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere (to sb. a qcn.)

    I read about it in the "Times" — ho letto qualcosa al proposito sul "Times"

    2) BE (study)
    •
    ••
    III 1. [red]
    passato, participio passato read II
    2.

    to take sth. as read — dare qcs. per scontato

    * * *
    [red]
    past tense, past participle; = read
    * * *
    (Surnames) Read, Reade /ri:d/
    * * *
    I [riːd]

    to have a read of — colloq. leggiucchiare [article, magazine]

    to be an easy read — essere un libro o una lettura facile

    II 1. [riːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere [book, map, music, sign]

    to read sth. to oneself — leggere qcs. in silenzio

    the card reads "Happy Birthday" — sul biglietto c'è scritto "buon compleanno"

    to read 29 degrees — [ thermometer] segnare 29 gradi

    3) (decipher) leggere [ braille]; decifrare [ handwriting]
    4) (interpret) riconoscere [ signs]; interpretare [intentions, reactions]; spiegare [ situation]

    to read sb.'s thoughts o mind leggere nei pensieri di qcn.; to read sb.'s mood capire di che umore è qcn.; to read palms leggere la mano; to read sth. into — leggere qcs. dietro a [comment, reply]

    5) BE univ. studiare [ history]
    6) (take a recording) leggere [meter, gauge, dial]
    7) rad. tel. sentire, ricevere [ person]
    8) inform. [ computer] leggere [data, file]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. read [red])
    1) leggere (to sb. a qcn.)

    I read about it in the "Times" — ho letto qualcosa al proposito sul "Times"

    2) BE (study)
    •
    ••
    III 1. [red]
    passato, participio passato read II
    2.

    to take sth. as read — dare qcs. per scontato

    English-Italian dictionary > Read

  • 14 AT

    I) prep.
    A. with dative.
    I. Of motion;
    1) towards, against;
    Otkell laut at Skamkatli, bowed down to S.;
    hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge against A.;
    Brynjólfr gengr alit at honum, quite up to him;
    þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters with him;
    3) to, at;
    koma at landi, to come to land;
    ganga at dómi, to go into court;
    4) along (= eptir);
    ganga at stræti, to walk along the street;
    dreki er niðr fór at ánni (went down the river) fyrir strauminum;
    refr dró hörpu at ísi, on the ice;
    5) denoting hostility;
    renna (sœkja) at e-m, to rush at, assault;
    gerði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog;
    6) around;
    vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a veil round one’s head;
    bera grjót at e-m, to heap stones upon the body;
    7) denoting business, engagement;
    ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after horses, watching sheep;
    fara at landskuldum, to go collecting rents.
    II. Of position, &c.;
    1) denoting presence at, near, by, upon;
    at kirkju, at church;
    at dómi, in court;
    at lögbergi, at the hill of laws;
    2) denoting participation in;
    vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, wedding;
    3) ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at;
    kvalararnir, er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him;
    var þar at kona nökkur at binda (was there busy dressing) sár manna;
    4) with proper names of places (farms);
    konungr at Danmörku ok Noregi, king of;
    biskup at Hólum, bishop of Holar;
    at Helgafelli, at Bergþórshváli;
    5) used ellipt. with a genitive, at (a person’s) house;
    at hans (at his house) gisti fjölmenni mikit;
    at Marðar, at Mara’s home;
    at hins beilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church;
    at Ránar, at Ran’s (abode).
    III. Of time;
    1) at, in;
    at upphafi, at first, in the beginning;
    at skilnaði, at parting, when they parted;
    at páskum, at Easter;
    at kveldi, at eventide;
    at fjöru, at the ebb;
    at flœðum, at the floodtide;
    2) adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr’;
    at ári komanda, next year;
    at vári, er kemr, next spring;
    generally with ‘komanda’ understood;
    at sumri, hausti, vetri, vári, next summer, &c.;
    3) used with an absolute dative and present or past part.;
    at sér lifanda, duing his lifetime;
    at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all;
    at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the hearing of the chief;
    at upprennandi sólu, at sunrise;
    at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks are past;
    at honum önduðum, after his death;
    4) denoting uninterrupted succession, after;
    hverr at öðrum, annarr at öðrum, one after another;
    skildu menn at þessu, thereupon, after this;
    at því (thereafter) kómu aðrar meyjar.
    IV. fig. and in various uses;
    1) to, into, with the notion of destruction or change;
    brenna (borgina) at ösku, to burn to ashes;
    verða at ormi, to become a snake;
    2) for, as;
    gefa e-t at gjöf, as a present;
    eiga e-n at vin, to have one as friend;
    3) by;
    taka sverð at hjöltum, by the hilt;
    draga út björninn at hlustunum, by the ears;
    kjósa at afli, álitum, by strength, appearrance;
    auðigr at fé, wealthy in goods;
    vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face;
    5) as a law term, on the grounds of, by reason of;
    ryðja ( to challenge) dóm at mægðum, kvið at frændsemi;
    6) as a paraphrase of a genitive;
    faðir, móðir at barni (= barns, of a child);
    aðili at sök = aðili sakar;
    7) with adjectives denoting colour, size, age, of;
    hvítr, svartr, rauðr at lit, while, black, red of colour;
    mikill, lítill at stœrð, vexti, tall, small of stature;
    tvítugr at aldri, twenty years of age;
    kýr at fyrsta, öðrum kálfi, a cow that has calved once, twice;
    8) determining the source from which anything comes, of, from;
    Ari nam ok marga frœði at Þuríði (from her);
    þiggja, kaupa, geta, leigja e-t at e-m, to receive, buy, obtain, borrow a thing from one;
    hafa veg (virðing) styrk at e-m, to derive honour, power, from one;
    9) according, to, after (heygðr at fornum sið);
    at ráði allra vitrustu manna, by the advice of;
    at landslögum, by the law of the land;
    at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave;
    10) in adverbial phrases;
    gróa (vera grœddr) at heilu, to be quite healed;
    bíta af allt gras at snøggu, quite bare;
    at fullu, fully;
    at vísu, surely;
    at frjálsu, freely;
    at eilífu, for ever and ever;
    at röngu, at réttu, wrongly, rightly;
    at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same;
    at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent.
    B. with acc., after, upon (= eptir);
    sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, to take the inheritance after his father;
    at þat (= eptir þat), after that, thereafter;
    connected with a past part. or a., at Gamla fallinn, after the fall of Gamli;
    at Hrungni dauðan, upon the death of Hrungnir.
    1) as the simple mark of the infinitive, to;
    at ganga, at ríða, at hlaupa, to walk, to ride, to run;
    2) in an objective sense;
    hann bauð þeim at fara, sitja, he bade (ordered) them to go, sit;
    gefa e-m at eta, at drekka, to give one to eat, to drink;
    3) denoting design or purpose, in order to (hann gekk í borg at kaupa silfr).
    1) demonstrative particle before a comparative, the, all the, so much the;
    hón grét at meir, she wept the more;
    þykkir oss at líkara, all the more likely;
    þú ert maðr at verri (so much the worse), er þú hefir þetta mælt;
    2) rel. pron., who, which, that (= er);
    þeir allir, at þau tíðindi heyrðu, all those who heard;
    sem þeim er títt, at ( as is the custom of those who) kaupferðir reka.
    conj., that;
    1) introducing a subjective or objective clause;
    þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, it happened once that H.;
    vilda ek, at þú réðist austr í fjörðu, I should like you to go;
    2) relative to svá, denoting proportion, degree;
    svá mikill lagamaðr, at, so great a lawyer, that;
    3) with subj., denoting end or purpose, in order that (skáru þeir fyrir þá (viz. hestana) melinn, at þeir dœi eigi af sulti);
    4) since, because, as (= því at);
    5) connected with þó, því, svá;
    þó at (with subj.), though, although;
    því at, because, for;
    svá at, so that;
    6) temp., þá at (= þá er), when;
    þegar at (= þegar er), as soon as;
    þar til at (= þar til er), until, till;
    áðr at (= á. en), before;
    7) used superfluously after an int. pron. or adv.;
    Ólafr spurði, hvern styrk at hann mundi fá honum, what help he was likely to give him;
    in a relative sense; með fullkomnum ávexti, hverr at (which) þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða.
    V)
    negative verbal suffix, = ata; var-at, was not.
    odda at, Yggs at, battle.
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    1.
    and að, prep., often used ellipt. dropping the case and even merely as an adverb, [Lat. ad; Ulf. at = πρός and παρά, A. S. ät; Engl. at; Hel. ad = apud; O. H. G. az; lost in mod. Germ., and rare in Swed. and Dan.; in more freq. use in Engl. than any other kindred language, Icel. only excepted]:—the mod. pronunciation and spelling is að (aþ); this form is very old, and is found in Icel. vellum MSS. of the 12th century, e. g. aþ, 623. 60; yet in earlier times it was sounded with a tenuis, as we may infer from rhymes, e. g. jöfurr hyggi at | hve ek yrkja fat, Egill: Sighvat also makes it rhyme with a t. The verse by Thorodd—þar vastu at er fjáðr klæðið þvat (Skálda 162)—is hardly intelligible unless we accept the spelling with an aspirate (að), and say that þvað is = þvá = þváði, lavabat; it may be that by the time of Thorodd and Ari the pure old pronunciation was lost, or is ‘þvat’ simply the A. S. þvât, secuit? The Icelanders still, however, keep the tenuis in compounds before a vowel, or before h, v, or the liquids l, r, thus—atyrða, atorka, athöfn, athugi, athvarf, athlægi; atvinna, atvik; atlaga, atlíðanði ( slope), atriði, atreið, atróðr: but aðdjúpr, aðfinsla (critic), aðferð, aðkoma, aðsókn, aðsúgr (crowding), aðgæzla. In some words the pronunciation is irregular, e. g. atkvæði not aðkv-; atburðr, but aðbúnaðr; aðhjúkran not athjúkran; atgörvi not aðgörfi. At, to, towards; into; against; along, by; in regard to; after.
    Mostly with dat.; rarely with acc.; and sometimes ellipt.—by dropping the words ‘home,’ ‘house,’ or the like—with gen.
    WITH DAT.
    A. LOC.
    I. WITH MOTION; gener. the motion to the borders, limits of an object, and thus opp. to frá:
    1. towards, against, with or without the notion of arrival, esp. connected with verbs denoting motion (verba movendi et eundi), e. g. fara, ganga, koma, lúta, snúa, rétta at…; Otkell laut at Skamkatli, O. louted (i. e. bowed down) towards S., Nj. 77, Fms. xi. 102; sendimaðrinn sneri ( turned) hjöltum sverðsins at konungi, towards the king, i. 15; hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge towards A., Nj. 220; rétta e-t at e-m, to reach, hand over, Ld. 132; ganga at, to step towards, Ísl. ii. 259.
    2. denoting proximity, close up to, up to; Brynjólfr gengr … allt at honum, B. goes quite up to him, Nj. 58; Gunnarr kom þangat at þeim örunum, G. reached them even there with his arrows, 115; þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters, id.; reið maðr at þeim (up to them), 274; þeir höfðu rakit sporin allt at ( right up to) gammanum, Fms. i. 9; komu þeir at sjó fram, came down to the sea, Bárð. 180.
    3. without reference to the space traversed, to or at; koma at landi, to land, Ld. 38, Fms. viii. 358; ríða at dyrum, Boll. 344; hlaupa at e-m, to run up to, run at, Fms. vii. 218, viii. 358; af sjáfarganginum er hann gekk at landinu, of the surf dashing against the shore, xi. 6; vísa ólmum hundi at manni, to set a fierce hound at a man, Grág. ii. 118; leggja e-n at velli, to lay low, Eg. 426, Nj. 117; hníga at jörðu, at grasi, at moldu, to bite the dust, to die, Njarð. 378; ganga at dómi, a law term, to go into court, of a plaintiff, defendant, or bystander, Nj. 87 (freq.)
    4. denoting a motion along, into, upon; ganga at stræti, to walk along the street, Korm. 228, Fms. vii. 39; at ísi, on the ice, Skálda 198, Fms. vii. 19, 246, viii. 168, Eb. 112 new Ed. (á is perh. wrong); máttu menn ganga bar yfir at skipum einum, of ships alone used as a bridge, Fas. i. 378; at höfðum, at nám, to trample on the slain on the battle-field, Lex. Poët.; at ám, along the rivers; at merkiósum, at the river’s mouth, Grág. ii. 355; at endilöngu baki, all along its back, Sks. 100.
    5. denoting hostility, to rush at, assault; renna at, hlaupa at, ganga, fara, ríða, sækja, at e-m, (v. those words), whence the nouns atrenna, athlaup, atgangr, atför, atreið, atsókn, etc.
    β. metaph., kom at þeim svefnhöfgi, deep sleep fell on them, Nj. 104. Esp. of weather, in the impers. phrase, hríð, veðr, vind, storm görir at e-m, to be overtaken by a snow storm, gale, or the like; görði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog, Bárð. 171.
    6. denoting around, of clothing or the like; bregða skikkju at höfði sér, to wrap his cloak over his head, Ld. 62; vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a snood round her head, 188; sauma at, to stick, cling close, as though sewn on; sauma at höndum sér, of tight gloves, Bs. i. 453; kyrtill svá þröngr sem saumaðr væri at honum, as though it were stitched to him, Nj. 214; vafit at vándum dreglum, tight laced with sorry tags, id.; hosa strengd fast at beini, of tight hose, Eg. 602; hann sveipar at sér iðrunum ok skyrtunni, he gathers up the entrails close to him and the skirt too, Gísl. 71; laz at síðu, a lace on the side, to keep the clothes tight, Eg. 602.
    β. of burying; bera grjót at einum, to heap stones upon the body, Eg. 719; var gör at þeim dys or grjóti, Ld. 152; gora kistu at líki, to make a coffin for a body, Eb. 264, Landn. 56, Ld. 142.
    γ. of summoning troops or followers; stefna at sér mönnum, to summon men to him, Nj. 104; stefna at sér liði, Eg. 270; kippa mönnum at sér, to gather men in haste, Ld. 64.
    7. denoting a business, engagement; ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after after horses, watching sheep, Glúm. 362, Nj. 75; fara at fé, to go to seek for sheep, Ld. 240; fara at heyi, to go a-haymaking, Dropl. 10; at veiðum, a-hunting; at fuglum, a-fowling; at dýrum, a-sbooting; at fiski, a-fishing; at veiðiskap, Landn. 154, Orkn. 416 (in a verse), Nj. 25; fara at landskuldum, to go a-collecling rents, Eg. 516; at Finnkaupum, a-marketing with Finns, 41; at féföngum, a-plundering, Fms. vii. 78; ganga at beina, to wait on guests, Nj. 50; starfa at matseld, to serve at table, Eb. 266; hitta e-n at nauðsynjum, on matters of business; at máli, to speak with one, etc., Fms. xi. 101; rekast at e-m, to pursue one, ix. 404; ganga at liði sér, to go suing for help, Grág. ii. 384.
    β. of festivals; snúa, fá at blóti, veizlu, brullaupi, to prepare for a sacrificial banquet, wedding, or the like, hence at-fangadagr, Eb. 6, Ld. 70; koma at hendi, to happen, befall; ganga at sínu, to come by one’s own, to take it, Ld. 208; Egill drakk hvert full er at honum kom, drained every horn that came to him, Eg. 210; komast at keyptu, to purchase dearly, Húv. 46.
    8. denoting imaginary motion, esp. of places, cp. Lat. spectare, vergere ad…, to look or lie towards; horfði botninn at höfðanum, the bight of the bay looked toward the headland, Fms. i. 340, Landn. 35; also, skeiðgata liggr at læknum, leads to the brook, Ísl. ii. 339; á þann arminn er vissi at sjánum, on that wing which looked toward the sea, Fms. viii. 115; sár þau er horft höfðu at Knúti konungi, xi. 309.
    β. even connected with verbs denoting motion; Gilsáreyrr gengr austan at Fljótinu, G. extends, projects to F. from the east, Hrafh. 25; hjá sundi því, er at gengr þingstöðinni, Fms. xi. 85.
    II. WITHOUT MOTION; denoting presence at, near, by, at the side of, in, upon; connected with verbs like sitja, standa, vera…; at kirkju, at church, Fms. vii. 251, K. f). K. 16, Ld. 328, Ísl. ii. 270, Sks. 36; vera at skála, at húsi, to be in, at home, Landn. 154; at landi, Fms. i. 82; at skipi, on shipboard, Grág. i. 209, 215; at oldri, at a banquet, inter pocula; at áti, at dinner, at a feast, inter edendum, ii. 169, 170; at samförum ok samvistum, at public meetings, id.; at dómi, in a court; standa (to take one’s stand) norðan, sunnan, austan, vestan at dómi, freq. in the proceedings at trials in lawsuits, Nj.; at þingi, present at the parliament, Grág. i. 142; at lögbergi, o n the hill of laws, 17, Nj.; at baki e-m, at the back of.
    2. denoting presence, partaking in; sitja at mat, to sit at meat, Fms. i. 241; vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, nuptials, Nj. 51, Ld. 70: a law term, vera at vígi, to be an accessory in manslaying, Nj. 89, 100; vera at e-u simply means to be about, be busy in, Fms. iv. 237; standa at máli, to stand by one in a case, Grág. ii. 165, Nj. 214; vera at fóstri, to be fostered, Fms. i. 2; sitja at hégóma, to listen to nonsense, Ld. 322; vera at smíð, to be at one’s work, Þórð. 62: now absol., vera at, to go on with, be busy at.
    3. the law term vinna eið at e-u has a double meaning:
    α. vinna eið at bók, at baugi, to make an oath upon the book by laying the band upon it, Landn. 258, Grág., Nj.; cp. Vkv. 31, Gkv. 3. 3, Hkv. 2. 29, etc.: ‘við’ is now used in this sense.
    β. to confirm a fact (or the like) by an oath, to swear to, Grág. i. 9, 327.
    γ. the law phrase, nefna vátta at e-u, of summoning witnesses to a deed, fact, or the like; nefna vátta at benjum, to produce evidence, witnesses as to the wounds, Nj., Grág.; at görð, Eg. 738; at svörum, Grág. i. 19: this summoning of witnesses served in old lawsuits the same purpose as modern pleadings and depositions; every step in a suit to be lawful must be followed by such a summoning or declaration.
    4. used ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at; kvalararnir er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him; þar varstu at, you were there present, Skálda 162; at várum þar, Gísl. (in a verse): as a law term ‘vera at’ means to be guilty, Glúm. 388; vartattu at þar, Eg. (in a verse); hence the ambiguity of Glum’s oath, vask at þar, I was there present: var þar at kona nokkur ( was there busy) at binda sár manna, Fms. v. 91; hann var at ok smíðaði skot, Rd. 313; voru Varbelgir at ( about) at taka af, þau lög …, Fms. ix. 512; ek var at ok vafk, I was about weaving, xi. 49; þeir höfðu verit at þrjú sumur, they had been busy at it for three summers, x. 186 (now very freq.); koma at, come in, to arrive unexpectedly; Gunnarr kom at í því, G. came in at that moment; hvaðan komtú nú at, whence did you come? Nj. 68, Fms. iii. 200.
    5. denoting the kingdom or residence of a king or princely person; konungr at Danmörk ok Noregi, king of…, Fms. i. 119, xi. 281; konungr, jarl, at öllum Noregi, king, earl, over all N., íb. 3, 13, Landn. 25; konungr at Dyflinni, king of Dublin, 25; but í or yfir England!, Eg. 263: cp. the phrase, sitja at landi, to reside, of a king when at home, Hkr. i. 34; at Joini, Fms. xi. 74: used of a bishop; biskup at Hólum, bishop of Hólar, Íb. 18, 19; but biskup í Skálaholti, 19: at Rómi, at Rome, Fbr. 198.
    6. in denoting a man’s abode (vide p. 5, col. 1, l. 27), the prep. ‘at’ is used where the local name implies the notion of by the side of, and is therefore esp. applied to words denoting a river, brook, rock, mountain, grove, or the like, and in some other instances, by, at, e. g. at Hofi (a temple), Landn. 198; at Borg ( a castle), 57; at Helgafelli (a mountain), Eb. constantly so; at Mosfelli, Landn. 190; at Hálsi (a hill), Fms. xi. 22; at Bjargi, Grett. 90; Hálsum, Landn. 143; at Á ( river), 296, 268; at Bægisá, 212; Giljá, 332; Myrká, 211; Vatnsá, id.; þverá, Glúm. 323; at Fossi (a ‘force’ or waterfall), Landn. 73; at Lækjamoti (waters-meeting), 332; at Hlíðarenda ( end of the lithe or hill), at Bergþórshváli, Nj.; at Lundi (a grove), at Melum (sandhill), Landn. 70: the prep. ‘á’ is now used in most of these cases, e. g. á Á, á Hofi, Helgafelli, Felli, Hálsi, etc.
    β. particularly, and without any regard to etymology, used of the abode of kings or princes, to reside at; at Uppsölum, at Haugi, Alreksstöðum, at Hlöðum, Landn., Fms.
    γ. konungr lét kalla at stofudyrum, the king made a call at the hall door, Eg. 88; þeir kölluðu at herberginu, they called at the inn, Fms. ix. 475.
    7. used ellipt. with a gen., esp. if connected with such words as gista, to be a guest, lodge, dine, sup (of festivals or the like) at one’s home; at Marðar, Nj. 4; at hans, 74; þingfesti at þess bóanda, Grág. i. 152; at sín, at one’s own home, Eg. 371, K. Þ. K. 62; hafa náttstað at Freyju, at the abode of goddess Freyja, Eg. 603; at Ránar, at Ran’s, i. e. at Ran’s house, of drowned men who belong to the queen of the sea, Ran, Eb. 274; at hins heilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church, Fms. vi. 63: cp. ad Veneris, εις Κίμωνος.
    B. TEMP.
    I. at, denoting a point or period of time; at upphafi, at first, in the beginning, Ld. 104; at lyktum, at síðustu, at lokum, at last; at lesti, at last, Lex. Poët., more freq. á lesti; at skilnaði, at parting, at last, Band. 3; at fornu, in times of yore, formerly, Eg. 267, D. I. i. 635; at sinni, as yet, at present; at nýju, anew, of present time; at eilífu, for ever and ever; at skömmu, soon, shortly, Ísl. ii. 272, v. l.
    II. of the very moment when anything happens, the beginning of a term; denoting the seasons of the year, months, weeks, the hours of the day; at Jólum, at Yule, Nj. 46; at Pálmadegi, on Palm Sunday, 273; at Páskum, at Easter; at Ólafsvöku, on St. Olave’s eve, 29th of July, Fms.; at vetri, at the beginning of the winter, on the day when winter sets in, Grág. 1. 151; at sumarmálum, at vetrnáttum; at Tvímánaði, when the Double month (August) begins, Ld. 256, Grág. i. 152; at kveldi, at eventide, Eg. 3; at því meli, at that time; at eindaga, at the term, 395; at eykð, at 4 o’clock p. m., 198; at öndverðri æfi Abra hams, Ver. II; at sinni, now at once, Fms. vi. 71; at öðruhverju, every now and then.
    β. where the point of time is marked by some event; at þingi, at the meeting of parliament (18th to the 24th of June), Ld. 182; at féránsdómi, at the court of execution, Grág. i. 132, 133; at þinglausnum, at the close of the parliament (beginning of July), 140; at festarmálum, eðr at eiginorði, at betrothal or nuptials, 174; at skilnaði, when they parted, Nj. 106 (above); at öllum minnum, at the general drinking of the toasts, Eg. 253; at fjöru, at the ebb; at flæðum, at flood tide, Fms. viii. 306, Orkn. 428; at hrörum, at an inquest, Grág. i. 50 (cp. ii. 141, 389); at sökum, at prosecutions, 30; at sinni, now, as yet, v. that word.
    III. ellipt., or adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr,’ of the future time:
    1. ellipt., komanda or the like being understood, with reference to the seasons of the year; at sumri, at vetri, at hausti, at vári, next summer, winter…, Ísl. ii. 242; at miðju sumri, at ári, at Midsummer, next year, Fas. i. 516; at miðjum vetri, Fms. iv. 237,
    2. adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr;’ at ári komanda, Bárð. 177; at vári er kemr, Dipl. iii. 6.
    IV. used with an absolute dat. and with a pres. part.:
    1. with pres. part.; at morni komanda, on the coming morrow, Fms. i. 263; at sér lifanda, in vivo, in his life time, Grág. ii. 202; at þeim sofundum, illis dormientibus, Hkr. i. 234; at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all, Fms. x. 329; at úvitanda konungi, illo nesciente, without his knowledge, 227; at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the chief’s bearing, 235.
    2. of past time with a past part. (Lat. abl. absol.); at hræjum fundnum, on the bodies being found, Grág. ii. 87; at háðum dómum ok föstu þingi, during the session, the courts being set, i. 484; at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks past, Band. 13; at svá búnu, so goru, svá komnu, svá mæltu (Lat. quibus rebus gestis, dictis, quo facto, dicto, etc.), v. those words; at úreyndu, without trial, without put ting one to the test, Ld. 76; at honum önduðum, illo mortuo.
    3. ellipt. without ‘at;’ en þessum hlutum fram komnum, when all this has been done, Eb. 132.
    V. in some phrases with a slight temp, notion; at görðum gildum, the fences being strong, Gþl. 387; at vörmu spori, at once, whilst the trail is warm; at úvörum, unawares, suddenly, Nj. 95, Ld. 132; at þessu, at this cost, on that condition, Eb. 38, Nj. 55; at illum leiki, to have a narrow escape, now við illan leik, Fms. ix. 473; at því, that granted, Grág. ii. 33: at því, at pessu, thereafter, thereupon, Nj. 76.
    2. denoting succession, without interruption, one after another; hverr at öðrum, annarr maðr at öðrum, aðrir at öðrum; eina konu at annarri, Eg. 91, Fms. ii. 236, vi. 25, Bs. i. 22, 625. 80, H. E. i. 522.
    C. METAPH. and in various cases:
    I. denoting a transformation or change into, to, with the notion of destruction; brenna at ösku, at köldum kolum, to burn to ashes, to be quite destroyed, Fms. i. 105, Edda 3, Sturl. ii. 51: with the notion of transformation or transfiguration, in such phrases as, verða at e-u, göra e-t at e-u, to turn it into:
    α. by a spell; verða at ormi, to become a snake, Fms. xi. 158; at flugdrekum, Gullþ. 7; urðu þau bönd at járni, Edda 40.
    β. by a natural process it can often be translated by an acc. or by as; göra e-n at urðarmanni, to make him an outlaw, Eg. 728; græða e-n at orkumlamanni, to heal him so as to maim him for life, of bad treatment by a leech, Eb. 244: in the law terms, sár görist at ben, a wound turning into a ben, proving to be mortal, Grág., Nj.; verða at ljúgvætti, to prove to be a false evidence, Grág. i. 44; verða at sætt, to turn into reconciliation, Fms. i. 13; göra e-t at reiði málum, to take offence at, Fs. 20; at nýjum tíðindum, to tell as news, Nj. 14; verða fátt at orðum, to be sparing of words, 18; kveðr (svá) at orði, to speak, utter, 10; verða at þrifnaði, to geton well, Fms. vii. 196: at liði, at skaða, to be a help or hurt to one; at bana, to cause one’s death, Nj. 223, Eg. 21, Grág. ii. 29: at undrum, at hlátri, to become a wonder, a laughing-stock, 623. 35, Eg. 553.
    II. denoting capacity, where it may be translated merely by as or for; gefa at Jólagjöf, to give for a Christmas-box, Eg. 516; at gjöf, for a present; at erfð, at láni, launum, as an inheritance, a loan; at kaupum ok sökum, for buying and selling, Ísl. ii. 223, Grág. i. 423; at solum, ii. 204; at herfangi, as spoil or plunder; at sakbótum, at niðgjöldum, as a compensation, weregeld, i. 339, ii. 171, Hkr. ii. 168; taka at gíslingu, to take as an hostage, Edda 15; eiga e-n at vin, at óvin, to have one as friend or foe, illt er at eiga þræl at eingavin, ‘tis ill to have a thrall for one’s bosom friend (a proverb), Nj. 77; fæða, eiga, at sonum (syni), to beget a son, Edda 8, Bs. i. 60 (but eiga at dóttur cannot be said); hafa möttul at yfirhöfn, Fms. vii. 201; verða nökkut at manni (mönnum), to turn out to be a worthy man; verða ekki at manni, to turn out a worthless person, xi. 79, 268.
    2. in such phrases as, verða at orðum, to come towards, Nj. 26; var þat at erindum, Eg. 148; hafa at veizlum, to draw veizlur ( dues) from, Fms. iv. 275, Eg. 647; gora e-t at álitum, to take it into consideration, Nj. 3.
    III. denoting belonging to, fitting, of parts of the whole or the like; vóru at honum (viz. the sword) hjölt gullbúin, the sword was ornamented with a hilt of gold, Ld. 330; umgörð at ( belonging to) sverði, Fs. 97 (Hs.) in a verse; en ef mór er eigi at landinu, if there be no turf moor belonging to the land, Grág. ii. 338; svá at eigi brotnaði nokkuð at Orminum, so that no harm happened to the ship Worm, Fms. x. 356; hvatki er meiðir at skipinu eðr at reiðinu eðr at viðum, damage done t o …, Grág. ii. 403; lesta ( to injure) hús at lásum, við eðr torfi, 110; ef land hefir batnað at húsum, if the land has been bettered as to its buildings, 210; cp. the phrase, göra at e-u, to repair: hamlaðr at höndum eðr fótum, maimed as to hands or feet, Eg. 14; heill at höndum en hrumr at fótum, sound in band, palsied in foot, Fms. vii. 12; lykill at skrá, a key belonging, fitting, to the latch; hurð at húsi; a key ‘gengr at’ ( fits) skrá; and many other phrases. 2. denoting the part by which a thing is held or to which it belongs, by; fá, taka at…, to grasp by …; þú tókt við sverði hans at hjöltunum, you took it by the bill, Fms. i. 15; draga út björninn at hlustum, to pull out the bear by the ears, Fas. ii. 237; at fótum, by the feet, Fms. viii. 363; mæla ( to measure) at hrygg ok at jaðri, by the edge or middle of the stuff, Grág. i. 498; kasta e-m at höfði, head foremost, Nj. 84; kjósa e-n at fótum, by the feet alone, Edda 46; hefja frændsemi at bræðrum, eða at systkynum, to reckon kinship by the brother’s or the sister’s side, Grág. i. 28; kjósa at afli, at álitum, by strength, sight, Gs. 8, belongs rather to the following.
    IV. in respect of, as regards, in regard to, as to; auðigr at fé, wealthy of goods, Nj. 16, 30, 51; beztir hestar at reið, the best racehorses, 186; spekingr at viti, a man of great intellect, Ld. 124; vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face, Nj. 30, Bs. i. 61; kvenna vænst at ásjónu ok vits munum, of surpassing beauty and intellect, Ld. 122; fullkominn at hyggju, 18; um fram aðra menn at vinsældum ok harðfengi, of surpassing popularity and hardihood, Eb. 30.
    2. a law term, of challenging jurors, judges, or the like, on account of, by reason of; ryðja ( to challenge) at mægðum, guðsifjum, frændsemi, hrörum …; at leiðarlengd, on account of distance, Grág. i. 30, 50, Nj. (freq.)
    3. in arithm. denoting proportion; at helmingi, þriðjungi, fjórðungi, tíunda hluta, cp. Lat. ex asse, quadrante, for the half, third… part; máttr skal at magni (a proverb), might and main go together, Hkr. ii. 236; þú munt vera at því mikill fræðimaðr á kvæði, in the same proportion, as great, Fms. vi. 391, iii. 41; at e-s hluta, at… leiti, for one’s part, in turn, as far as one is con cerned, Grág. i. 322, Eg. 309, Fms. iii. 26 (freq.): at öðrum kosti, in the other case, otherwise (freq.) More gener., at öllu, öngu, in all (no) respects; at sumu, einhverju, nokkru, partly; at flestu, mestu, chiefly.
    4. as a paraphrase of a genitive; faðir, móðir at barni (= barns); aðili at sök (= sakar a.); morðingi at barni (= barns), faðerni at barni (barns); illvirki at fé manna (cp. Lat. felo de se), niðrfall at sökum (saka), land gangr at fiskum (fiska), Fms. iv. 274, Grág. i. 277, 416, N. G. L. i. 340, K. Þ. K. 112, Nj. 21.
    5. the phrase ‘at sér,’ of himself or in himself, either ellipt. or by adding the participle görr, and with the adverbs vel, ilia, or the like; denoting breeding, bearing, endowments, character …; væn kona, kurteis ok vel at sér, an accomplished, well-bred, gifted lady, Nj. I; vitr maðr ok vel at sér, a wise man and thoroughly good in feeling and bearing, 5; þú ert maðr vaskr ok vel at þér, 49; gerr at sér, accomplished, 51; bezt at sér görr, the finest, best bred man, 39, Ld. 124; en þó er hann svá vel at sér, so generous, Nj. 77; þeir höfðingjar er svá vóru vel at sér, so noble-minded, 198, Fms. i. 160: the phrase ‘at sér’ is now only used of knowledge, thus maðr vel að sér means clever, a man of great knowledge; illa að sér, a blockhead.
    6. denoting relations to colour, size, value, age, and the like; hvitr, svartr, grár, rauðr … at lit, white, swarthy, gray, red … of colour, Bjarn. 55, 28, Ísl. ii. 213, etc.; mikill, lítill, at stærð, vexti, tall, small of size, etc.; ungr, gamall, barn, at aldri, young, old, a child of age; tvítugr, þrítugr … at aldri, twenty, thirty … years of age (freq.): of animals; kyr at fyrsta, öðrum … kálfi, a cow having calved once, twice…, Jb. 346: value, amount, currency of money, kaupa e-t at mörk, at a mark, N. G. L. 1. 352; ok er eyririnn at mörk, amounts to a mark, of the value of money, Grág. i. 392; verðr þá at hálfri murk vaðmála eyrir, amounts to a half a mark, 500.
    β. metaph. of value, connected with verbs denoting to esteem, hold; meta, hafa, halda at miklu, litlu, vettugi, engu, or the like, to hold in high or low esteem, to care or not to care for (freq.): geta e-s at góðu, illu, öngu, to mention one favourably, unfavourably, indifferently … (freq.), prop. in connection with. In many cases it may be translated by in; ekki er mark at draumum, there is no meaning in dreams, no heed is to be paid to dreams, Sturl. ii. 217; bragð er at þá barnið finnr, it goes too far, when even a child takes offence (a proverb): hvat er at því, what does it mean? Nj. 11; hvert þat skip er vöxtr er at, any ship of mark, i. e. however small, Fms. xi. 20.
    V. denoting the source of a thing:
    1. source of infor mation, to learn, perceive, get information from; Ari nam ok marga fræði at Þuríði, learnt as her pupil, at her hands, as St. Paul at the feet of Gamaliel, (just as the Scotch say to speer or ask at a person); Ari nam at Þorgeiri afraðskoll, Hkr. (pref.); nema kunnáttu at e-m, used of a pupil, Fms. i. 8; nema fræði at e-m, xi. 396.
    2. of receiving, acquiring, buying, from; þiggja e-t at e-m, to receive a thing at his hands, Nj. 51; líf, to be pardoned, Fms. x. 173; kaupa land at e-m, to buy it from, Landn. 72, Íb. II, (now af is more freq. in this sense); geta e-t at e-m, to obtain, procure at one’s hands, impetrare; þeirra manna er þeir megu þat geta at, who are willing to do that, Grág. i. I; heimta e-t at e-m (now af), to call in, demand (a debt, money), 279; fala e-t at e-m (now af), to chaffer for or cheapen anything, Nj. 73; sækja e-t at e-m, to ask, seek for; sækja heilræði ok traust at e-m, 98; leiga e-t at e-m (now af), to borrow, Grág. ii. 334; eiga e-t (fé, skuld) at e-m, to be owed money by any one, i. 399: metaph. to deserve of one, Nj. 113; eiga mikit at e-m, to have much to do with, 138; hafa veg, virðing, styrk, at, to derive honour, power from, Fms. vi. 71, Eg. 44, Bárð. 174; gagn, to be of use, Ld. 216; mein, tálma, mischief, disadvantage, 158, 216, cp. Eg. 546; ótta, awe, Nj. 68.
    VI. denoting conformity, according to, Lat. secundum, ex, after; at fornum sið, Fms. i. 112; at sögn Ara prests, as Ari relates, on his authority, 55; at ráði allra vitrustu manna, at the advice of, Ísl. ii. 259, Ld. 62; at lögum, at landslögum, by the law of the land, Grág., Nj.; at líkindum, in all likelihood, Ld. 272; at sköpum, in due course (poet.); at hinum sama hætti, in the very same manner, Grág. i. 90; at vánum, as was to be expected, Nj. 255; at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave, Eg. 35; úlofi, Grág. ii. 215; at ósk, vilja e-s, as one likes…; at mun, id. (poet.); at sólu, happily (following the course of the sun), Bs. i. 70, 137; at því sem …, as to infer from …, Nj. 124: ‘fara, láta, ganga at’ denotes to yield, agree to, to comply with, give in, Ld. 168, Eg. 18, Fms. x. 368.
    VII. in phrases nearly or quite adverbial; gróa, vera græddr, at heilu, to be quite healed, Bárð. 167, Eb. 148; bíta at snöggu, to bite it bare, Fms. xi. 6; at þurru, till it becomes dry, Eb. 276; at endilöngu, all along, Fas. ii; vinnast at litlu, to avail little, 655 x. 14; at fullu, fully, Nj. 257, Hkr. i. 171; at vísu, of a surety, surely, Ld. 40; at frjálsu, freely, 308; at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same, Hom. 80, Nj. 267; at röngu, wrongly, 686 B. 2; at hófi, temperately, Lex. Poët.; at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent; at hringum, utterly, all round, (rare), Fms. x. 389; at einu, yet, Orkn. 358; svá at einu, því at einu, allt at einu, yet, however, nevertheless.
    VIII. connected with comparatives of adverbs and adjectives, and strengthening the sense, as in Engl. ‘the,’ so much the more, all the more; ‘at’ heldr tveimr, at ek munda gjarna veita yðr öllum, where it may be translated by so much the more to two, as I would willingly grant it to all of you; hon grét at meir, she grat (wept) the more, Eg. 483; þykir oss at líkara, all the more likely, Fms. viii. 6; þess at harðari, all the harder, Sturl. iii. 202 C; svá at hinn sé bana at nær, Grág. ii. 117; at auðnara, at hólpnara, the more happy, Al. 19, Grett. 116 B; þess at meiri, Fms. v. 64; auvirðismaðr at meiri, Sturl. ii. 139; maðr at vaskari, id.; at feigri, any the more fey, Km. 22; maðr at verri, all the worse, Nj. 168; ok er ‘at’ firr…, at ek vil miklu heldr, cp. Lat. tantum abest… ut, Eg. 60.
    β. following after a negation; eigi at síðr, no less, Nj. 160, Ld. 146; eigi… at meiri maðr, any better, Eg. 425, 489; erat héra at borgnara, any the better off for that, Fms. vii. 116; eigi at minni, no less for that, Edda (pref.) 146; eigi at minna, Ld. 216, Fms. ix. 50; ekki at verri drengr, not a bit worse for that, Ld. 42; er mér ekki son minn at bættari, þótt…, 216; at eigi vissi at nær, any more, Fas. iii. 74.
    IX. following many words:
    1. verbs, esp. those denoting, a. to ask, enquire, attend, seek, e. g. spyrja at, to speer (ask) for; leita at, to seek for; gæta, geyma at, to pay attention to; huga, hyggja at; hence atspurn, to enquire, aðgæzla, athugi, attention, etc.
    β. verbs denoting laughter, play, joy, game, cp. the Engl. to play at …, to laugh at …; hlæja, brosa at e-u, to laugh, smile at it; leika (sér) at e-u, to play at; þykja gaman at, to enjoy; hæða, göra gys at …, to make sport at …
    γ. verbs denoting assistance, help; standa, veita, vinna, hjálpa at; hence atstoð, atvinna, atverk:—mode, proceeding; fara at, to proceed, hence atför and atferli:—compliance; láta, fara at e-u, v. above:— fault; e-t er at e-u, there is some fault in it, Fms. x. 418; skorta at e-u, to fall short of, xi. 98:—care, attendance; hjúkra at, hlýja at, v. these words:—gathering, collecting; draga, reiða, flytja, fá at, congerere:—engagement, arrival, etc.; sækja at, to attack; ganga at, vera at, to be about; koma at, ellipt. to arrive: göra at, to repair: lesta at, to impair (v. above); finna at, to criticise (mod.); telja at, id.: bera at, to happen; kveða at e-m, to address one, 625. 15, (kveða at (ellipt.) now means to pronounce, and of a child to utter (read) whole syllables); falla at, of the flood-tide (ellipt.): metaph. of pains or straits surrounding one; þreyngja, herða at, to press hard: of frost and cold, with regard to the seasons; frjósa at, kólna at, to get really cold (SI. 44), as it were from the cold stiffening all things: also of the seasons themselves; hausta, vetra að, when the season really sets in; esp. the cold seasons, ‘sumra at’ cannot be used, yet we may say ‘vára að’ when the spring sets in, and the air gets mild.
    δ. in numberless other cases which may partly be seen below.
    2. connected ellipt. with adverbs denoting motion from a place; norðan, austan, sunnan, vestan at, those from the north, east…; utan at, innan at, from the outside or inside.
    3. with adjectives (but rarely), e. g. kærr, elskr, virkr (affectionate), vandr (zealous), at e-m; v. these words.
    WITH ACC.
    TEMP.: Lat. post, after, upon, esp. freq. in poetry, but rare in prose writers, who use eptir; nema reisi niðr at nið (= maðr eptir mann), in succession, of erecting a monument, Hm. 71; in prose, at þat. posthac, deinde, Fms. x. 323, cp. Rm., where it occurs several times, 2, 6, 9, 14, 18, 24, 28, 30, 35; sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, has to take the inheritance after his father, Grág. i. 170 new Ed.; eiga féránsdóm at e-n, Grág. i. 89; at Gamla fallinn, after the death of G., Fms. x. 382; in Edda (Gl.) 113 ought to be restored, grét ok at Oð, gulli Freyja, she grat (wept) tears of gold for her lost husband Od. It is doubtful if it is ever used in a purely loc. sense; at land, Grág. (Sb.)ii. 211, is probably corrupt; at hönd = á hönd, Grág. (Sb.) i. 135; at mót = at móti, v. this word.
    ☞ In compounds (v. below) at- or að- answers in turn to Lat. ad- or in- or con-; atdráttr e. g. denotes collecting; atkoma is adventus: it may also answer to Lat. ob-, in atburðr = accidence, but might also be compared with Lat. occurrere.
    2.
    and að, the mark of the infinitive [cp. Goth. du; A. S. and Engl. to; Germ. zu]. Except in the case of a few verbs ‘at’ is always placed immediately before the infinitive, so as to be almost an inseparable part of the verb.
    I. it is used either,
    1. as, a simple mark of the infinitive, only denoting an action and independent of the subject, e. g. at ganga, at hlaupa, at vita, to go, to run, to know; or,
    2. in an objective sense when following such verbs as bjóða segja…, to invite, command …; hann bauð þeim at ganga, at sitja, be bade, ordered them to go, sit, or the like; or as gefa and fá; gefa e-m at drekka, at eta, to give one to drink or to eat, etc. etc.
    β. with the additional notion of intention, esp. when following verba cogitandi; hann ætlaði, hafði í hyggju at fara, he had it in his mind to go (where ‘to go’ is the real object to ætlaði and hafði í hyggju).
    3. answering to the Gr. ινα, denoting intention, design, in order to; hann gékk í borg at kaupa silfr, in order to buy, Nj. 280; hann sendi riddara sína með þeim at varðveita þær, 623. 45: in order to make the phrase more plain, ‘svá’ and ‘til’ are frequently added, esp. in mod. writers, ‘svá at’ and contr. ‘svát’ (the last however is rare), ‘til at’ and ‘til þess at,’ etc.
    II. in the earlier times the infin., as in Greek and Lat., had no such mark; and some verbs remain that cannot be followed by ‘at;’ these verbs are almost the same in Icel. as in Engl.:
    α. the auxiliary verbs vil, mun ( μέλλω), skal; as in Engl. to is never used after the auxiliaries shall, will, must; ek vil ganga, I will go; ek mun fara, (as in North. E.) I mun go; ek skal göra þat, I shall do that, etc.
    β. the verbs kunna, mega, as in Engl. I can or may do, I dare say; svá hygginn at hann kunni fyrir sökum ráða, Grág. ii. 75; í öllu er prýða má góðan höfðingja, Nj. 90; vera má, it may be; vera kann þat, id.: kunnu, however, takes ‘at’ whenever it means to know, and esp. in common language in phrases such as, það kann að vera, but vera kann þat, v. above.
    γ. lata, biðja, as in Engl. to let, to bid; hann lét (bað) þá fara, he let (bade) them go.
    δ. þykkja, þykjast, to seem; hann þykir vera, he is thought to be: reflex., hann þykist vera, sibi videtur: impers., mér þykir vera, mibi videtur, in all cases without ‘at.’ So also freq. the verbs hugsa, hyggja, ætla, halda, to think, when denoting merely the act of thinking; but if there be any notion of intention or purpose, they assume the ‘at;’ thus hann ætlaði, hugði, þá vera góða menn, he thought them to be, acc. c. inf.; but ætlaði at fara, meant to go, etc.
    ε. the verbs denoting to see, bear; sjá, líta, horfa á … ( videre); heyra, audire, as in Engl. I saw them come, I heard him tell, ek sá þá koma, ek heyrði hann tala.
    ζ. sometimes after the verbs eiga and ganga; hann gékk steikja, be went to roast, Vkv. 9; eiga, esp. when a mere periphrasis instead of skal, móður sína á maðr fyrst fram færa (better at færa), Grág. i. 232; á þann kvið einskis meta, 59; but at meta, id. l. 24; ráða, nema, göra …, freq. in poetry, when they are used as simple auxiliary verbs, e. g. nam hann sér Högna hvetja at rúnum, Skv. 3. 43.
    η. hljóta and verða, when used in the sense of must (as in Engl. he must go), and when placed after the infin.of another verb; hér muntu vera hljóta, Nj. 129; but hljóta at vera: fara hlýtr þú, Fms. 1. 159; but þú hlýtr at fara: verða vita, ii. 146; but verða at vita: hann man verða sækja, þó verðr (= skal) maðr eptir mann lifa, Fms. viii. 19, Fas. ii. 552, are exceptional cases.
    θ. in poetry, verbs with the verbal neg. suffix ‘-at,’ freq. for the case of euphony, take no mark of the infinitive, where it would be indispensable with the simple verb, vide Lex. Poët. Exceptional cases; hvárt sem hann vill ‘at’ verja þá sök, eða, whatever he chooses, either, Grág. i. 64; fyrr viljum vér enga kórónu at bera, en nokkut ófrelsi á oss at taka, we would rather bear no crown than …, Fms. x. 12; the context is peculiar, and the ‘at’ purposely added. It may be left out ellipt.; e. g. þá er guð gefr oss finnast (= at finnast), Dipl. ii. 14; gef honum drekka (= at drekka), Pr. 470; but mostly in unclassical writers, in deeds, or the like, written nastily and in an abrupt style.
    3.
    and að, conj. [Goth. þatei = οτι; A. S. þät; Engl. that; Germ, dass; the Ormul. and Scot. at, see the quotations sub voce in Jamieson; in all South-Teutonic idioms with an initial dental: the Scandinavian idioms form an exception, having all dropped this consonant; Swed. åt, Dan. at]. In Icel. the Bible translation (of the 16th century) was chiefly based upon that of Luther; the hymns and the great bulk of theol. translations of that time were also derived from Germany; therefore the germanised form það frequently appears in the Bible, and was often employed by theol. authors in sermons since the time of the Reformation. Jón Vidalin, the greatest modern Icel. preacher, who died in 1720, in spite of his thoroughly classical style, abounds in the use of this form; but it never took root in the language, and has never passed into the spoken dialect. After a relative or demonstr. pronoun, it freq. in mod. writers assumes the form eð, hver eð, hverir eð, hvað eð, þar eð. Before the prep. þú (tu), þ changes into t, and is spelt in a single word attú, which is freq. in some MS.;—now, however, pronounced aððú, aððeir, aððið …, = að þú…, with the soft Engl. th sound. It gener. answers to Lat. ut, or to the relat. pron. qui.
    I. that, relative to svá, to denote proportion, degree, so…, that, Lat. tam, tantus, tot…, ut; svá mikill lagamaðr, at…, so great a lawyer, that…, Nj. 1; hárið svá mikit, at þat…, 2; svá kom um síðir því máli, at Sigvaldi, it came so far, that…, Fms. xi. 95, Edda 33. Rarely and unclass., ellipt. without svá; Bæringr var til seinn eptir honum, at hann … (= svá at), Bær. 15; hlífði honum, at hann sakaði ekki, Fas. iii. 441.
    II. it is used,
    1. with indic, in a narrative sense, answering partly to Gr. οτι, Lat. quod, ut, in such phrases as, it came to pass, happened that …; þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, Nj. 2; þat var á palmdrottinsdag, at Ólafr konungr gékk út um stræti, Fms. ii. 244.
    2. with subj. answering to Lat. acc. with infin., to mark the relation of an object to the chief verb, e. g. vilda ek at þú réðist, I wished that you would, Nj. 57.
    β. or in an oblique sentence, answering to ita ut…; ef svá kann verða at þeir láti…, if it may be so that they might…, Fms. xi. 94.
    γ. with a subj. denoting design, answering to ϊνα or Lat. ut with subj., in order that; at öll veraldar bygðin viti, ut sciat totus orbis, Stj.; þeir skáru fyrir þá melinn, at þeir dæi eigi af sulti, ut ne fame perirent, Nj. 265; fyrsti hlutr bókarinnar er Kristindómsbálkr, at menn skili, in order that men may understand, Gþl. p. viii.
    III. used in connection with conjunctions,
    1. esp. þó, því, svá; þó at freq. contr. þótt; svát is rare and obsolete.
    α. þóat, þótt (North. E. ‘thof’), followed by a subjunctive, though, although, Lat. etsi, quamquam (very freq.); þóat nokkurum mönnum sýnist þetta með freku sett… þá viljum vér, Fms. vi. 21: phrases as, gef þú mér þó at úverðugri, etsi indignae (dat.), Stj. MS. col. 315, are unclass., and influenced by the Latin: sometimes ellipt. without ‘þó,’ eigi mundi hón þá meir hvata göngu sinni, at (= þóat) hon hraeddist bana sinn, Edda 7, Nj. 64: ‘þó’ and ‘at’ separated, svarar hann þó rétt, at hann svari svá, Grág. i. 23; þó er rétt at nýta, at hann sé fyrr skorinn, answering to Engl. yet—though, Lat. attamen —etsi, K. Þ. K.
    β. því at, because, Lat. nam, quia, with indic.; því at allir vóru gerfiligir synir hans, Ld. 68; því at af íþróttum verðr maðr fróðr, Sks. 16: separated, því þegi ek, at ek undrumst, Fms. iii. 201; því er þessa getið, at þat þótti, it i s mentioned because …, Ld. 68.
    γ. svá at, so that, Lat. ut, ita ut; grátrinn kom upp, svá at eingi mátti öðrum segja, Edda 37: separated, so … that, svá úsvúst at …, so bad weather, that, Bs. i. 339, etc.
    2. it is freq. used superfluously, esp. after relatives; hver at = hverr, quis; því at = því, igitur; hverr at þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða, Fms. v. 159; hvern stvrk at hann mundi fá, 44; ek undrumst hvé mikil ógnarraust at liggr í þér, iii. 201; því at ek mátti eigi þar vera elligar, því at þar var kristni vel haldin, Fas. i. 340.
    IV. as a relat. conj.:
    1. temp, when, Lat. quum; jafnan er ( est) mér þá verra er ( quum) ek fer á braut þaðan, en þá at ( quum) ek kem, Grett. 150 A; þar til at vér vitum, till we know, Fms. v. 52; þá at ek lýsta (= þá er), when, Nj. 233.
    2. since, because; ek færi yðr (hann), at þér eruð í einum hrepp allir, because of your being all of the same Rape, Grág. i. 260; eigi er kynlegt at ( though) Skarphéðinn sé hraustr, at þat er mælt at…, because (since) it is a saying that…, Nj. 64.
    V. in mod. writers it is also freq. superfluously joined to the conjunctions, ef að = ef, si, (Lv. 45 is from a paper MS.), meðan að = meðan, dum; nema að, nisi; fyrst að = fyrst, quoniam; eptir að, síðan að, postquam; hvárt að = hvárt, Lat. an. In the law we find passages such as, þá er um er dæmt eina sök, at þá eigu þeir aptr at ganga í dóminn, Grág. i. 79; ef þing ber á hina helgu viku, at þat á eigi fyrir þeim málum at standa, 106; þat er ok, at þeir skulu reifa mál manna, 64; at þeir skulu með váttorð þá sök sækja, 65: in all these cases ‘at’ is either superfluous or, which is more likely, of an ellipt. nature, ‘the law decrees’ or ‘it is decreed’ being understood. The passages Sks. 551, 552, 568, 718 B, at lokit (= at ek hefi lokit), at hugleitt (= at ek hefi h.), at sent (= at ek hefi sent) are quite exceptional.
    4.
    and að, an indecl. relat. pronoun [Ulf. þatei = ος, ος αν, οστις, οσπερ, οιος, etc.; Engl. that, Ormul. at], with the initial letter dropped, as in the conj. at, (cp. also the Old Engl. at, which is both a conj. and a pronoun, e. g. Barbour vi. 24 in Jamieson: ‘I drede that his gret wassalage, | And his travail may bring till end, | That at men quhilc full litil wend.’ | ‘His mestyr speryt quhat tithings a t he saw.’—Wyntoun v. 3. 89.) In Icel. ‘er’ (the relat. pronoun) and ‘at’ are used indifferently, so that where one MS. reads ‘er,’ another reads ‘at,’ and vice versâ; this may easily be seen by looking at the MSS.; yet as a rule ‘er’ is much more freq. used. In mod. writers ‘at’ is freq. turned into ‘eð,’ esp. as a superfluous particle after the relative pron. hverr (hver eð, hvað eð, hverir eð, etc.), or the demonstr. sá (sá eð, þeir eð, hinir eð, etc.):—who, which, that, enn bezta grip at ( which) hafði til Íslands komið, Ld. 202; en engi mun sá at ( cui) minnisamara mun vera, 242; sem blótnaut at ( quae) stærst verða, Fms. iii. 214; þau tiðendi, at mér þætti verri, Nj. 64, etc. etc.
    5.
    n. collision (poët.); odda at, crossing of spears, crash of spears, Höfuðl. 8.
    β. a fight or bait of wild animals, esp. of horses, v. hesta-at and etja.
    6.
    the negative verbal suffix, v. -a.

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    A n surtout GB to have a read of ○ jeter un coup d'œil sur ○, lire [article, magazine] ; I enjoy a quiet read j'aime bien lire tranquillement ; I've already seen the newspaper, do you want a read? j'ai déjà regardé le journal, est-ce que tu veux le lire? ; to be an easy/exciting read être facile/passionnant à lire ; this book is a good read c'est un bon livre.
    B vtr ( prét, pp read)
    1 ( in text etc) lire [book, instructions, map, music, sign] (in dans) ; I read somewhere that j'ai lu quelque part que ; to read sth to sb, to read sb sth lire qch à qn ; to read sth aloud lire qch à haute voix ; to read sth to oneself lire qch ; she can read elle sait lire ; I can read German je lis l'allemand ;
    2 ( say) the card reads ‘Happy Birthday Dad’ sur la carte il est écrit ‘bon anniversaire Papa’ ; the thermometer reads 20 degrees le thermomètre indique 20 degrés ; the sentence should read as follows la phrase correcte est ;
    3 ( decipher) lire [braille, handwriting] ; ⇒ lip-read ;
    4 ( interpret) reconnaître [signs] ; interpréter [intentions, reactions] ; voir [situation] ; to read sb's thoughts ou mind lire dans les pensées de qn ; to read sb's mood connaître les humeurs de qn ; to read sb's tea-leaves ≈ lire dans le marc de café ; to read palms lire les lignes de la main ; to read a remark/statement as considérer une remarque/déclaration comme ; don't read his comments as proof of his sincerity ne considère pas ses commentaires comme une preuve de sa sincérité ; the book can be read as a satire le livre peut se lire comme une satire ; to read sth into lire qch derrière [comment, message, sentence] ; don't read too much into his reply ne va pas imaginer des choses qu'il n'a pas dites ;
    5 GB Univ étudier ; she is reading history at Oxford elle fait des études d'histoire à Oxford ;
    6 ( take a recording) relever [meter] ; lire [dial, barometer, gauge] ; I can't read what the dial says je n'arrive pas à lire le cadran ;
    7 Radio, Telecom recevoir [person, pilot] ; I can read you loud and clear je vous reçois cinq sur cinq ;
    8 Publg lire ; for ‘cat’ in line 12 read ‘cart’ au lieu de ‘cat’ à la ligne 12, (il faut) lire ‘cart’ ;
    9 Comput [computer] lire [data, file].
    C vi ( prét, pp read)
    1 ( look at or articulate text) lire (to sb à qn) ; to read aloud lire à haute voix (to sb à qn) ; to read about sth lire quelque chose sur [accident, discovery] ; I read about it in the ‘Times’ j'ai lu quelque chose là-dessus dans le ‘Times’ ; I read about him yesterday j'ai lu quelque chose à son sujet hier ; to read to sb from sth lire qch à qn ;
    2 GB ( study) to read for a degree ≈ préparer une licence (in de) ; to read for the Bar GB Jur préparer son entrée au barreau ;
    3 ( create an impression) the document reads well/badly le document se lit bien/mal ; the translation reads like the original la traduction est aussi bonne que l'original.
    D read pp adj to take sth as read considérer qch comme lu [minutes, report] ; the press took it as read that he was lying pour la presse il était évident qu'il mentait ; can we take it as read that everybody will agree? pouvons-nous considérer que tout le monde sera d'accord?
    to read between the lines lire entre les lignes.
    ■ read back:
    ▶ read [sth] back relire [message, sentence] (to à).
    ■ read in:
    ▶ read [sth] in, read in [sth] [computer] enregistrer [data].
    ■ read off:
    ▶ read off [sth], read [sth] off annoncer [names, scores].
    ■ read on continuer à lire.
    ■ read out:
    ▶ read [sth] out, read out [sth] lire [qch] à haute voix.
    ■ read over, read through:
    ▶ read over ou through [sth], read [sth] over ou through ( for the first time) lire [article, essay] ; ( reread) relire [notes, speech].
    ■ read up: to read up on sth/sb étudier qch/qn à fond, potasser ○.

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  • 16 Á

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    a negative suffix to verbs, not;
    era útmakligt, at it is not unmeet that.
    * * *
    1.
    á, prep., often used elliptically, or even adverbially, [Goth. ana; Engl. on; Germ. an. In the Scandinavian idioms the liquid n is absorbed. In English the same has been supposed to happen in adverbial phrases, e. g. ‘along, away, abroad, afoot, again, agate, ahead, aloft, alone, askew, aside, astray, awry,’ etc. It is indeed true that the Ormulum in its northern dialect freq. uses o, even in common phrases, such as ‘o boke, o land, o life, o slæpe, o strande, o write, o naht, o loft,’ etc., v. the glossary; and we may compare on foot and afoot, on sleep (Engl. Vers. of Bible) and asleep; A. S. a-butan and on-butan (about); agen and ongean (again, against); on bæc, aback; on life, alive; on middan, amid. But it is more than likely that in the expressions quoted above, as well as in numberless others, as well in old as in modern English, the English a- as well as the o- of the Ormulum and the modern Scottish and north of England o- are in reality remains of this very á pronounced au or ow, which was brought by the Scandinavian settlers into the north of England. In the struggle for supremacy between the English dialects after the Conquest, the Scandinavian form á or a won the day in many cases to the exclusion of the Anglo-Saxon on. Some of these adverbs have representatives only in the Scandinavian tongues, not in Anglo-Saxon; see below, with dat. B. II, C. VII; with acc. C. I. and VI. The prep. á denotes the surface or outside; í and ór the inside; at, til, and frá, nearness measured to or from an object: á thus answers to the Gr. επί; the Lat. in includes á and i together.]
    With dat. and acc.: in the first case with the notion of remaining on a place, answering to Lat. in with abl.; in the last with the notion of motion to the place, = Lat. in with acc.
    WITH DAT.
    A. Loc.
    I. generally on, upon; á gólfi, on the floor, Nj. 2; á hendi, on the hand (of a ring), 48, 225; á palli, 50; á steini, 108; á vegg, 115; á sjá ok á landi, on sea and land. In some instances the distinction between d and i is loose and wavering, but in most cases common sense and usage decide; thus ‘á bók’ merely denotes the letters, the penmanship, ‘í’ the contents of a book; mod. usage, however, prefers ‘í,’ lesa í bók, but stafr á bók. Old writers on the other hand; á bókum Enskum, in English books, Landn. 24, but í Aldafars bók, 23 (in the book De Mensurâ Temporum, by Bede), cp. Grág. i. 76, where á is a false reading instead of at; á bréfi, the contents of a letter: of clothing or arms, mítr á höfði, sverð á hlið, mitre on head, sword on side, Fms. i. 266, viii. 404; hafa lykil á sér, on one’s person, 655 xxvii. 22; möttull á tyglum, a mantle hanging on (i. e. fastened by) laces, Fms. vii. 201: á þingi means to be present at a meeting; í þingi, to abide within a jurisdiction; á himni, á jörðu, on (Engl. in) heaven and earth, e. g. in the Lord’s Prayer, but í helviti, in hell; á Gimli, Edda (of a heavenly abode); á báti, á skipi denote crew and cargo, ‘í’ the timber or materials of which a ship is built, Eg. 385; vera í stafni á skipi, 177: á skógi, to be abroad in a wood (of a hunter, robber, deer); but to be situated (a house), at work (to fell timber), í skógi, 573, Fs. 5, Fms. iii. 122, viii. 31, xi. 1, Glúm. 330, Landn. 173; á mörkinni, Fms. i. 8, but í mörk, of a farm; á firðinum means lying in a firth, of ships or islands (on the surface of the water), þær eyjar liggja á Breiðafirði, Ld. 36; but í firði, living in a district named Firth; á landi, Nj. 98, Fms. xi. 386.
    II. á is commonly used in connection with the pr. names or countries terminating in ‘land,’ Engl. in, á Englandi, Írlandi, Skotlandi, Bretlandi, Saxlandi, Vindlandi, Vínlandi, Grænalandi, Íslandi, Hálogalandi, Rogalandi, Jótlandi, Frakklandi, Hjaltlandi, Jamtalandi, Hvítramannalandi, Norðrlöndum, etc., vide Landn. and the index to Fms. xii. In old writers í is here very rare, in modern authors more frequent; taste and the context in many instances decide. An Icelander would now say, speaking of the queen or king, ‘á Englandi,’ ruling over, but to live ‘í Englandi,’ or ‘á Englandi;’ the rule in the last case not being quite fixed.
    2. in connection with other names of countries: á Mæri, Vörs, Ögðum, Fjölum, all districts of Norway, v. Landn.; á Mýrum (in Icel.), á Finnmörk, Landn., á Fjóni (a Danish island); but í Danmörk, Svíþjóð (á Svíþjóðu is poët., Gs. 13).
    3. before Icel. farms denoting open and elevated slopes and spaces (not too high, because then ‘at’ must be used), such as ‘staðr, völlr, ból, hjalli, bakki, heimr, eyri,’ etc.; á Veggjum, Landn. 69; á Hólmlátri, id.: those ending in ‘-staðr,’ á Geirmundarstöðum, Þórisstöðum, Jarðlangsstöðum…, Landn.: ‘-völlr,’ á Möðruvöllum: á Fitjum (the farm) í Storð (the island), í Fenhring (the island) á Aski (the farm), Landn., Eg.: ‘-nes’ sometimes takes á, sometimes í (in mod. usage always ‘í’), á Nesi, Eb. 14, or í Krossnesi, 30; in the last case the notion of island, νησος, prevails: so also, ‘fjörðr,’ as, þeir börðust á Vigrafirði (of a fight o n the ice), Landn. 101, but orusta í Hafrsfirði, 122: with ‘-bær,’ á is used in the sense of a farm or estate, hón sa á e-m bæ mikit hús ok fagrt, Edda 22; ‘í bæ’ means within doors, of the buildings: with ‘Bær’ as pr. name Landn. uses ‘í,’ 71, 160, 257, 309, 332.
    4. denoting on or just above; of the sun, when the time is fixed by regarding the sun in connection with points in the horizon, a standing phrase in Icel.; sól á gjáhamri, when the sun is on the crag of the Rift, Grág. i. 26, cp. Glúm. 387; so, brú á á, a bridge on a river, Fms. viii. 179, Hrafn. 20; taka hús á e-m, to surprise one, to take the house over his head, Fms. i. 11.
    III. á is sometimes used in old writers where we should now expect an acc., esp. in the phrase, leggja sverði (or the like) á e-m, or á e-m miðjum, to stab, Eg. 216, Gísl. 106, Band. 14; þá stakk Starkaðr sprotanum á konungi, then Starkad stabbed the king with the wand, Fas. iii. 34; bíta á kampi (vör), to bite the lips, as a token of pain or emotion, Nj. 209, 68; taka á e-u, to touch a thing, lay hold of it, v. taka; fá á e-u, id. (poët.); leggja hendr á (better at) síðum, in wrestling, Fms. x. 331; koma á úvart á e-m, to come on one unawares, ix. 407 (rare).
    B. TEMP. of a particular point or period of time, at, on, in:
    I. gener. denoting during, in the course of; á nótt, degi, nætrþeli …, Bs. i. 139; or spec. adding a pron. or an adject., á næsta sumri, the next summer; á því ári, þingi, misseri, hausti, vári, sumri …, during, in that year …, Bs. i. 679, etc.; á þrem sumrum, in the course of three summers, Grág. i. 218; á þrem várum, Fms. ii. 114; á hálfs mánaðar fresti, within half a month’s delay, Nj. 99; á tvítugs, sextugs … aldri, á barns, gamals aldri, etc., at the age of …, v. aldr: á dögum e-s, in the days of, in his reign or time, Landn. 24, Hrafn. 3, Fms. ix. 229.
    II. used of a fixed recurrent period or season; á várum, sumrum, haustum, vetrum, á kveldum, every spring, summer …, in the evenings, Eg. 711, Fms. i. 23, 25, vi. 394, Landn. 292: with the numeral adverbs, cp. Lat. ter in anno, um sinn á mánuði, ári, once a month, once a year, where the Engl. a is not the article but the preposition, Grág. i. 89.
    III. of duration; á degi, during a whole day, Fms. v. 48; á sjau nóttum, Bárð. 166; á því meli, during that time, in the meantime, Grág. i. 259.
    IV. connected with the seasons (á vetri, sumri, vári, hausti), ‘á’ denotes the next preceding season, the last winter, summer, autumn, Eb. 40, 238, Ld. 206: in such instances ‘á’ denotes the past, ‘at’ the future, ‘í’ the present; thus í vetri in old writers means this winter; á vetri, last winter; at vetri, next winter, Eb. 68 (in a verse), etc.
    C. In various other relations, more or less metaphorically, on, upon, in, to, with, towards, against:
    I. denoting object, in respect of, against, almost periphrastically; dvelja á náðum e-s, under one’s protection, Fms. i. 74; hafa metnað á e-u, to be proud of, to take pride in a thing, 127.
    2. denoting a personal relation, in; bæta e-t á e-m, to make amends, i. e. to one personally; misgöra e-t á e-m, to inflict wrong on one; hafa elsku (hatr) á e-m, to bear love ( hatred) to one, Fms. ix. 242; hefna sín á e-m, to take revenge on one’s person, on anyone; rjúfa sætt á e-m, to break truce on the person of any one, to offend against his person, Nj. 103; hafa sár á sér, 101; sjá á e-m, to read on or in one’s face; sér hann á hverjum manni hvárt til þín er vel eðr illa, 106; var þat brátt auðséð á hennar högum, at …, it could soon be seen in all her doings, that …, Ld. 22.
    3. also generally to shew signs of a thing; sýna fáleika á sér, to shew marks of displeasure, Nj. 14, Fs. 14; taka vel, illa, lítt, á e-u, to take a thing well, ill, or indifferently, id.; finna á sér, to feel in oneself; fann lítt á honum, hvárt …, it could hardly be seen in his face, whether …, Eb. 42; líkindi eru á, it is likely, Ld. 172; göra kost á e-u, to give a choice, chance of it, 178; eiga vald á e-u, to have power over …, Nj. 10.
    II. denoting encumbrance, duty, liability; er fimtardómsmál á þeim, to be subject to …, Nj. 231; the phrase, hafa e-t á hendi, or vera á hendi e-m, on one’s hands, of work or duty to be done; eindagi á fé, term, pay day, Grág. i. 140; ómagi (skylda, afvinna) á fé, of a burden or encumbrance, D. I. and Grág. in several passages.
    III. with a personal pronoun, sér, mér, honum …, denoting personal appearance, temper, character, look, or the like; vera þungr, léttr … á sér, to be heavy or light, either bodily or mentally; þungr á sér, corpulent, Sturl. i. 112; kátr ok léttr á sér, of a gay and light temper, Fms. x. 152; þat bragð hafði hann á sér, he looked as if, … the expression of his face was as though …, Ld., cp. the mod. phrase, hafa á sér svip, bragð, æði, sið, of one’s manner or personal appearance, to bear oneself as, or the like; skjótr (seinn) á fæti, speedy ( slow) of foot, Nj. 258.
    IV. as a periphrasis of the possessive pronoun connected with the limbs or parts of the body. In common Icel. such phrases as my hands, eyes, head … are hardly ever used, but höfuð, eyru, hár, nef, munnr, hendr, fætr … á mér; so ‘í’ is used of the internal parts, e. g. hjarta, bein … í mér; the eyes are regarded as inside the body, augun í honum: also without the possessive pronoun, or as a periphrasis for a genitive, brjóstið á e-m, one’s breast, Nj. 95, Edda 15; súrnar í augum, it smarts in my eyes, my eyes smart, Nj. 202; kviðinn á sér, its belly, 655 xxx. 5, Fms. vi. 350; hendr á henni, her hands, Gísl. (in a verse); í vörunum á honum, on his lips, Band. 14; ristin á honum, his step, Fms. viii. 141; harðr í tungu, sharp of tongue, Hallfred (Fs. 114); kalt (heitt) á fingrum, höndum, fótum …, cold ( warm) in the fingers, hands, feet …, i. e. with cold fingers, etc.; cp. also the phrase, verða vísa (orð) á munni, of extemporising verses or speeches, freq. in the Sagas; fastr á fótum, fast by the leg, of a bondsman, Nj. 27: of the whole body, díla fundu þeir á honum, 209. The pers. pron. is used only in solemn style (poetry, hymns, the Bible), and perhaps only when influenced by foreign languages, e. g. mitt hjarta hví svo hryggist þú, as a translation of ‘warumb betrübst du dich mein Herz?’ the famous hymn by Hans Sachs; instead of the popular hjartað í mér, Sl. 43, 44: hjartað mitt is only used as a term of endearment, as by a husband to his wife, parents to their child, or the like, in a metaphorical sense; the heart proper is ‘í mér,’ not ‘mitt.’
    2. of other things, and as a periphrasis of a genitive, of a part belonging to the whole, e. g. dyrr á husi = húsdyrr, at the house-doors; turn á kirkju = kirkju turn; stafn, skutr, segl, árar … á skipi, the stem, stern, sail … of a ship, Fms. ix. 135; blöð á lauk, á tré …, leaves of a leek, of a tree …, Fas. i. 469; egg á sverði = sverðs egg; stafr á bók; kjölr á bók, and in endless other instances.
    V. denoting instrumentality, by, on, or a-, by means of; afla fjár á hólmgöngum, to make money a-duelling, by means of duels, Eg. 498; á verkum sínum, to subsist on one’s own work, Njarð. 366: as a law term, sekjast á e-ju, to be convicted upon …, Grág. i. 123; sekst maðr þar á sínu eigini ( a man is guilty in re sua), ef hann tekr af þeim manni er heimild ( possessio) hefir til, ii. 191; falla á verkum sínum, to be killed flagranti delicto, v. above; fella e-n á bragði, by a sleight in wrestling; komast undan á flótta, to escape by flight, Eg. 11; á hlaupi, by one’s feet, by speed, Hkr. ii. 168; lifa á e-u, to feed on; bergja á e-u, to taste of a thing; svala sér á e-u, to quench the thirst on.
    VI. with subst. numerals; á þriðja tigi manna, up to thirty, i. e. from about twenty to thirty, Ld. 194; á öðru hundraði skipa, from one to two hundred sail strong, Fms. x. 126; á níunda tigi, between eighty and ninety years of age, Eg. 764, v. above: used as prep., á hendi, on one’s hand, i. e. bound to do it, v. hönd.
    VII. in more or less adverbial phrases it may often be translated in Engl. by a participle and a- prefixed; á lopti, aloft; á floti, afloat; á lífi, alive; á verðgangi, a-begging; á brautu, away; á baki, a-back, behind, past; á milli, a-tween; á laun, alone, secretly; á launungu, id.; á móti, against; á enda, at an end, gone; á huldu, hidden; fara á hæli, to go a-heel, i. e. backwards, Fms. vii. 70;—but in many cases these phrases are transl. by the Engl. partic. with a, which is then perh. a mere prefix, not a prep., á flugi, a-flying in the air, Nj. 79; vera á gangi, a-going; á ferli, to be about; á leiki, a-playing, Fms. i. 78; á sundi, a-swimming, ii. 27; á verði, a-watching, x. 201; á hrakningi, a-wandering; á reiki, a-wavering; á skjálfi, a-shivering; á-hleri, a-listening; á tali, a-talking, Ísl. ii. 200; á hlaupi, a-running, Hkr. ii. 268; á verki, a-working; á veiðum, a-hunting; á fiski, a-fishing; á beit, grazing: and as a law term it even means in flagranti, N. G. L. i. 348.
    VIII. used absolutely without a case in reference to the air or the weather, where ‘á’ is almost redundant; þoka var á mikil, a thick fog came on, Nj. 267; niðamyrkr var á, pitch darkness came on, Eg. 210; allhvast á norðan, a very strong breeze from the north, Fms. ix. 20; þá var á norðrænt, a north wind came on, 42, Ld. 56; hvaðan sem á er, from whatever point the wind is; var á hríð veðrs, a snow storm came on, Nj. 282; görði á regn, rain came on, Fms. vi. 394, xi. 35, Ld. 156.
    WITH ACC.
    A. Loc.
    I. denoting simple direction towards, esp. connected with verbs of motion, going, or the like; hann gékk á bergsnös, Eg. 389; á hamar, Fas. ii. 517.
    2. in phrases denoting direction; liggja á útborða, lying on the outside of the ship, Eg. 354; á annat borð skipinu, Fms. vii. 260; á bæði borð, on both sides of the ship, Nj. 124, Ld. 56; á tvær hliðar, on both sides, Fms. v. 73. Ísl. ii. 159; á hlið, sidewards; út á hlið, Nj. 262, Edda 44; á aðra hönd henni, Nj. 50, Ld. 46; höggva á tvær hendr, to hew or strike right and left, Ísl. ii. 368, Fas. i. 384, Fms. viii. 363, x. 383.
    3. upp á, upon; hann tók augu Þjaza ok kastaði upp á himin, Edda 47: with verbs denoting to look, see, horfa, sjá, líta, etc.; hann rak skygnur á land, he cast glances towards the land, Ld. 154.
    II. denoting direction with or without the idea of arriving:
    1. with verbs denoting to aim at; of a blow or thrust, stefna á fótinn, Nj. 84; spjótið stefnir á hann miðjan, 205: of the wind, gékk veðrit á vestr, the wind veered to west, Fms. ix. 28; sigla á haf, to stand out to sea, Hkr. i. 146, Fms. i. 39: with ‘út’ added, Eg. 390, Fms. x. 349.
    2. conveying the notion of arriving, or the intervening space being traversed; spjótið kom á miðjan skjöldinn, Eg. 379, Nj. 96, 97; langt upp á land, far up inland, Hkr. i. 146: to reach, taka ofan á belti, of the long locks of a woman, to reach down to the belt, Nj. 2; ofan á bringu, 48; á þa ofan, 91.
    III. without reference to the space traversed, connected with verbs denoting to go, turn, come, ride, sail, throw, or the like, motion of every kind; hann kastar honum á völlinn, he flings him down, Nj. 91; hlaupa á skip sitt, to leap on board his ship, 43; á hest, to mount quickly, Edda 75; á lend hestinum, Nj. 91; hann gengr á sáðland sitt, he walks on to his fields, 82: on, upon, komast á fætr, to get upon one’s legs, 92; ganga á land, to go a-shore, Fms. i. 40; ganga á þing, vii. 242, Grág. (often); á skóg, á merkr ok skóga, into a wood, Fb. i. 134, 257, Fms. xi. 118, Eg. 577, Nj. 130; fara á Finnmörk, to go travelling in Finmark, Fms. i. 8; koma, fara á bæ, to arrive at the farm-house; koma á veginn, Eg. 578; stíga á bát, skip, to go on board, 158; hann gékk upp á borg, he went up to the burg (castle), 717; en er þeir komu á loptriðið, 236; hrinda skipum á vatn, to float the ships down into the water, Fms. i. 58; reka austr á haf, to drift eastwards on the sea, x. 145; ríða ofan á, to ride down or over, Nj. 82.
    IV. in some cases the acc. is used where the dat. would be used, esp. with verbs denoting to see or hear, in such phrases as, þeir sá boða mikinn inn á fjörðinn, they saw great breakers away up in the bight of the firth, the acc. being due perhaps to a motion or direction of the eye or ear towards the object, Nj. 124; sá þeir fólkit á land, they saw the people in the direction of land, Fas. ii. 517: in phrases denoting to be placed, to sit, to be seated, the seat or bench is freq. in the acc. where the dat. would now be used; konungr var þar á land upp, the king was then up the country, the spectator or narrator is conceived as looking from the shore or sea-side, Nj. 46; sitja á miðjan bekk, to be seated on the middle bench, 50; skyldi konungs sæti vera á þann bekk … annat öndvegi var á hinn úæðra pall; hann setti konungs hásæti á miðjan þverpall, Fms. vi. 439, 440, cp. Fagrsk. l. c., Sturl. iii. 182; eru víða fjallbygðir upp á mörkina, in the mark or forest, Eg. 58; var þar mörk mikil á land upp, 229; mannsafnaðr er á land upp (viewed from the sea), Ld. 76; stóll var settr á mótið, Fas. i. 58; beiða fars á skip, to beg a passage, Grág. i. 90.
    V. denoting parts of the body; bíta e-n á barka, to bite one in the throat, Ísl. ii. 447; skera á háls, to cut the throat of any one, Nj. 156; brjóta e-n á háls, to break any one’s neck; brjóta e-n á bak, to break any one’s back, Fms. vii. 119; kalinn á kné, frozen to the knees with cold, Hm. 3.
    VI. denoting round; láta reipi á háls hesti, round his horse’s neck, 623. 33; leggja söðul á hest, Nj. 83; and ellipt., leggja á, to saddle; breiða feld á hofuð sér, to wrap a cloak over his head, 164; reyta á sik mosa, to gather moss to cover oneself with, 267; spenna hring á hönd, á fingr, Eg. 300.
    VII. denoting a burden; stela mat á tvá hesta, hey á fimtán hesta, i. e. a two, a fifteen horse load, Nj. 74: metaph., kjósa feigð á menn, to choose death upon them, i. e. doom them to death, Edda 22.
    B. TEMP.
    I. of a period of time, at, to; á morgun, to-morrow (í morgun now means the past morning, the morning of to-day), Ísl. ii. 333.
    II. if connected with the word day, ‘á’ is now used before a fixed or marked day, a day of the week, a feast day, or the like; á Laugardag, á Sunnudag …, on Saturday, Sunday, the Old Engl. a-Sunday, a-Monday, etc.; á Jóladaginn, Páskadaginn, on Yule and Easter-day; but in old writers more often used ellipt. Sunnudaginn, Jóladaginn …, by dropping the prep. ‘á,’ Fms. viii. 397, Grág. i. 18.
    III. connected with ‘dagr’ with the definite article suffixed, ‘á’ denotes a fixed, recurring period or season, in; á daginn, during the day-time, every day in turn, Grett. 91 A.
    IV. connected with ‘evening, morning, the seasons,’ with the article; á kveldit, every evening, Ld. 14; á sumarit, every summer, Vd. 128, where the new Ed. Fs. 51 reads sumrum; á haust, every autumn, Eg. 741 (perh. a misprint instead of á haustin or á haustum); á vetrinn, in the winter time, 710; á várit, every spring, Gþl. 347; the sing., however, is very rare in such cases, the old as well as mod. usage prefers the plur.; á nætrnar, by night, Nj. 210; á várin, Eg. 710; á sumrin, haustin, á morgnana, in the morning (á morgin, sing., means to-morrow); á kveldin, in the evening, only ‘dagr’ is used in sing., v. above (á daginn, not á dagana); but elliptically and by dropping the article, Icelanders say, kveld og morgna, nótt og dag, vetr sumar vor og haust, in the same sense as those above mentioned.
    V. denoting duration, the article is dropped in the negative phrase, aldri á sinn dag, never during one’s life; aldri á mína daga, never in my life, Bjarn. 8, where a possess. pron. is put between noun and prep., but this phrase is very rare. Such phrases as, á þann dag, that day, and á þenna dag, Stj. 12, 655 xxx. 2. 20, are unclassical.
    VI. á dag without article can only be used in a distributive sense, e. g. tvisvar á dag, twice a-day; this use is at present freq. in Icel., yet instances from old writers are not on record.
    VII. denoting a movement onward in time, such as, liðið á nótt, dag, kveld, morgun, sumar, vetr, vár, haust (or nóttina, daginn …), jól, páska, föstu, or the like, far on in the night, day …, Edda 33; er á leið vetrinn, when the winter was well on, as the winter wore on, Nj. 126; cp. áliðinn: also in the phrase, hniginn á inn efra aldr, well stricken in years, Ld. 68.
    C. Metaph. and in various relations:
    I. somewhat metaphorically, denoting an act only (not the place); fara á fund, á vit e-s, to call for one, Eg. 140; koma á ræðu við e-n, to come to a parley with, to speak, 173; ganga á tal, Nj. 103; skora á hólm, to challenge to a duel on an island; koma á grið, to enter into a service, to be domiciled, Grág. i. 151; fara á veiðar, to go a-hunting, Fms. i. 8.
    β. generally denoting on, upon, in, to; bjóða vöxtu á féit, to offer interest on the money, Grág. i. 198; ganga á berhögg, to come to blows, v. berhögg; fá á e-n, to make an impression upon one, Nj. 79; ganga á vápn e-s, to throw oneself on an enemy’s weapon, meet him face to face, Rd. 310; ganga á lagið, to press on up the spear-shaft after it has passed through one so as to get near one’s foe, i. e. to avail oneself of the last chance; bera fé á e-n, to bribe, Nj. 62; bera öl á e-n, to make drunk, Fas. i. 13; snúinn á e-t, inclined to, Fms. x. 142; sammælast á e-t, to agree upon, Nj. 86; sættast, verða sáttr á e-t, in the same sense, to come to an agreement, settlement, or atonement, 78, Edda 15, Eb. 288, Ld. 50, Fms. i. 279; ganga á mála, to serve for pay as a soldier, Nj. 121; ganga á vald e-s, to put oneself in his power, 267; ganga á sætt, to break an agreement; vega á veittar trygðir, to break truce, Grág. ii. 169.
    II. denoting in regard to, in respect to:
    1. of colour, complexion, the hue of the hair, or the like; hvítr, jarpr, dökkr … á hár, having white, brown, or dark … hair, Ísl. ii. 190, Nj. 39; svartr á brún ok brá, dark of brow and eyebrow; dökkr á hörund, id., etc.
    2. denoting skill, dexterity; hagr á tré, a good carpenter; hagr á járn, málm, smíðar …, an expert worker in iron, metals …, Eg. 4; fimr á boga, good at the bow: also used of mastership in science or arts, meistari á hörpuslátt, a master in striking the harp, Fas. iii. 220; fræðimaðr á kvæði, knowing many poems by heart, Fms. vi. 391; fræðimaðr á landnámssögur ok forna fræði, a learned scholar in histories and antiquities (of Are Frode), Ísl. ii. 189; mikill á íþrótt, skilful in an art, Edda (pref.) 148; but dat. in the phrase, kunna (vel) á skíðum, to be a cunning skater, Fms. i. 9, vii. 120.
    3. denoting dimensions; á hæð, lengd, breidd, dýpt …, in the heighth, length, breadth, depth …, Eg. 277; á hvern veg, on each side, Edda 41 (square miles); á annan veg, on the one side, Grág. i. 89.
    β. the phrase, á sik, in regard to oneself, vel (illa) á sik kominn, of a fine ( ugly) appearance, Ld. 100, Fas. iii. 74.
    III. denoting instrumentality; bjargast á sínar hendr, to live on the work of one’s own hands, (á sínar spýtur is a mod. phrase in the same sense); (vega) á skálir, pundara, to weigh in scales, Grág. ii. 370; at hann hefði tvá pundara, ok hefði á hinn meira keypt en á hinn minna selt, of a man using two scales, a big one for buying and a little one for selling, Sturl. i. 91; á sinn kostnað, at one’s own expense; nefna e-n á nafn, by name, Grág. i. 17, etc. The Icel. also say, spinna á rokk, snældu, to spin on or with a rock or distaff; mala á kvern, to grind in a ‘querne,’ where Edda 73 uses dat.; esp. of musical instruments, syngja, leika á hljóðfæri, hörpu, gígju …; in the old usage, leika hörpu …, Stj. 458.
    IV. denoting the manner or way of doing:
    1. á þessa lund, in this wise, Grág. ii. 22; á marga vega, á alla, ymsa vega, in many, all, respects, Fms. i. 114; á sitt hóf, in its turn, respectively, Ld. 136, where the context shews that the expression answers to the Lat. mutatis mutandis; á Þýðersku, after German fashion, Sks. 288.
    2. esp. of language; mæla, rita á e-a tungu, to speak, write in a tongue; á Írsku, in Irish, Ld. 76; Norrænu, in Norse, Eb. 330, Vm. 35; a Danska tungu, in Danish, i. e. Scandinavian, Norse, or Icelandic, Grág. i. 18; á Vára tungu, i. e. in Icelandic, 181; rita á Norræna tungu, to write in Norse, Hkr. (pref.), Bs. i. 59:—at present, dat. is sometimes used.
    3. in some phrases the acc. is used instead of the dat.; hann sýndi á sik mikit gaman, Fms. x. 329; hann lét ekki á sik finna, he shewed no sign of motion, Nj. 111; skaltú önga fáleika á þik gera (Cod. Kalf.), 14.
    V. used in a distributive sense; skal mörk kaupa gæzlu á kú, eðr oxa fim vetra gamlan, a mark for every cow, Grág. i. 147; alin á hvert hross, 442; á mann, per man (now freq.): cp. also á dag above, lit. B.
    VI. connected with nouns,
    1. prepositional; á hendr (with dat.), against; á hæla, at heel, close behind; á bak, at back, i. e. past, after; á vit (with gen.), towards.
    2. adverbially; á braut, away, abroad; á víxl, in turns; á mis, amiss; á víð ok dreif, a-wide and a-drift, i. e. dispersedly.
    3. used almost redundantly before the following prep.; á eptir, after, behind; á undan, in front of; á meðal, á milli, among; á mót, against; á við, about, alike; á frá (cp. Swed. ifrån), from (rare); á fyrir = fyrir, Haustl. 1; á hjá, beside (rare); á fram, a-head, forwards; á samt, together; ávalt = of allt, always: following a prep., upp á, upon; niðr á, down upon; ofan á, eptir á, post eventum, (temp.) á eptir is loc., id., etc.
    VII. connected with many transitive verbs, answering to the Lat. ad- or in-, in composition, in many cases periphrastically for an objective case. The prep. generally follows after the verb, instead of being prefixed to it as in Lat., and answers to the Engl. on, to; heita kalla, hrópa á, to call on; heyra, hlusta, hlyða á, to hearken to, listen to; hyggja, hugsa á, to think on; minna á, to remind; sjá, líta, horfa, stara, mæna, glápa, koma auga … á, to look on; girnast á, to wish for; trúa á, to believe on; skora á, to call on any one to come out, challenge; kæra á, to accuse; heilsa á, to greet; herja, ganga, ríða, hlaupa, ráða … á, to fall on, attack, cp. ágangr, áreið, áhlaup; ljúga á, to tell lies of, to slander; telja á, to carp at; ausa, tala, hella, kasta, verpa … á, to pour, throw on; ríða, bera, dreifa á, to sprinkle on; vanta, skorta á, to fall short of; ala á, to plead, beg; leggja á, to throw a spell on, lay a saddle on; hætta á, to venture on; gizka á, to guess at; kveða á, to fix on, etc.: in a reciprocal sense, haldast á, of mutual strife; sendast á, to exchange presents; skrifast á, to correspond (mod.); kallast á, to shout mutually; standast á, to coincide, so as to be just opposite one another, etc.
    2.
    f. [Lat. aqua; Goth. ahva; Hel. aha; A. S. eâ; O. H. G. aha, owa; cp. Germ. ach and aue; Fr. eau, eaux; Engl. Ax-, Ex-, etc., in names of places; Swed.-Dan. å; the Scandinavians absorb the hu, so that only a single vowel or diphthong remains of the whole word]:—a river. The old form in nom. dat. acc. sing. is , v. the introduction to A, page 1, Bs. i. 333 sq., where ́n, ́ (acc.), and ́na; so also Greg. 677; the old fragm. of Grág. ii. 222, 223, new Ed. In the Kb. of the Edda the old form occurs twice, viz. page 75, ́na (acc.), (but two lines below, ána), í ́nni (dat.) The old form also repeatedly occurs in the Kb. and Sb. of the Grág., e. g. ii. 266, 267: gen. sing. ár; nom. pl. ár, gen. á contracted, dat. ám, obsolete form ́m; Edda 43, Eg. 80, 99, 133, 185: proverbs, at ósi skal á stemma, answering to the Lat. principiis obsta, Edda 60; hér kemr á til sæfar, here the river runs into the sea, metaph. = this is the very end, seems to have been a favourite ending of old poems; it is recorded in the Húsdrápa and the Norðsetadrápa, v. Edda 96, Skálda 198; cp. the common saying, oil vötn renna til sævar, ‘all waters run into the sea.’ Rivers with glacier water are in Icel. called Hvítá, White river, or Jökulsá: Hitá, Hot river, from a hot spring, opp. to Kaldá, v. Landn.: others take a name from the fish in them, as Laxá, Lax or Salmon river (freq.); Örriða á, etc.: a tributary river is þverá, etc.: ár in the Njála often means the great rivers Ölfusá and Þjórsá in the south of Iceland. Áin helga, a river in Sweden, Hkr. ii: á is also suffixed to the names of foreign rivers, Tempsá = Thames; Dóná, Danube (Germ. Don-au), (mod.), etc. Vide Edda (Gl.) 116, 117, containing the names of over a hundred North-English and Scottish rivers.
    COMPDS: áráll, árbakki, árbrot, ardjúp, árfarvegr, árfors, árgljúfr, árhlutr, ármegin, árminni, ármót, áróss, árreki, árstraumr, árströnd, árvað, árvegr, árvöxtr.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > Á

  • 17 who

    hu:
    1. pronoun
    ((used as the subject of a verb) what person(s)(?): Who is that woman in the green hat?; Who did that?; Who won?; Do you know who all these people are?) quién, quiénes

    2. relative pronoun
    1) ((used to refer to a person or people mentioned previously to distinguish him or them from others: used as the subject of a verb: usually replaceable by that) (the) one(s) that: The man who/that telephoned was a friend of yours; A doctor is a person who looks after people's health.)
    2) (used, after a comma, to introduce a further comment on a person or people: His mother, who was so proud, gave him a hug.) que
    •

    3. pronoun
    1) (no matter who: Whoever rings, tell him/them I'm out.)
    2) ((also who ever) used in questions to express surprise etc: Whoever said that?) quienquiera que, cualquiera que
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    4. relative pronoun
    (used as the object of a verb or preposition but in everyday speech sometimes replaced by who)
    1) ((used to refer to a person or people mentioned previously, to distinguish him or them from others: able to be omitted or replaced by that except when following a preposition) (the) one(s) that: The man (whom/that) you mentioned is here; Today I met some friends (whom/that) I hadn't seen for ages; This is the man to whom I gave it; This is the man (whom/who/that) I gave it to.)
    2) (used, after a comma, to introduce a further comment on a person or people: His mother, who was so proud of him, gave him a hug.) que, quien, quienes
    •
    who pron
    1. quién
    who was at the party? ¿quién había en la fiesta?
    2. que
    tr['dʌbəljʊː'eɪʧ'əʊ]
    1 ( World Health Organization) Organización Mundial de la Salud; (abbreviation) OMS nombre femenino
    who ['hu:] pron
    who is that?: ¿quién es ése?
    who did it?: ¿quién lo hizo?
    we know who they are: sabemos quiénes son
    the lady who lives there: la señora que vive allí
    for those who wait: para los que esperan, para quienes esperan
    pron.
    • cual pron.
    • el que pron.
    • que pron.
    • quien pron.
    • quién pron.
    noun (= World Health Organization) OMS f
    [huː]
    1. PRON

    who is it? — ¿quién es?

    who are they? — ¿quiénes son?

    who are you looking for? — ¿a quién buscas?

    who does she think she is? * — ¿quién se cree que es?

    guess who! — ¡a ver si adivinas quién soy!

    who should it be but Neil! — ¿a que no sabes quién era? ¡Neil!, ¡no era otro que Neil!

    3) (relative) que; (after preposition) el/la que, quien, el/la cual more frm

    the girl who you spoke to has since left the company — la chica con la que or con quien or more frm con la cual hablaste ya no trabaja en la empresa

    he who wishes to... — el que desee...

    2.
    CPD

    Who's Who N — (=book) libro que contiene una lista de británicos famosos y destacados

    their client list reads like a celebrity Who's Who — su lista de clientes incluye a todos los que son alguien en el mundo de la fama

    WHO, WHOM
    In direct and indirect questions
    ► In direct and indirect questions as well as after expressions of (un)certainty and doubt (e.g. no sé), translate who using quién/quiénes w hen it is the subject of a verb:
    Who broke the window? ¿Quién rompió la ventana?
    She had no idea who her real parents were Ignoraba quiénes eran sus verdaderos padres ► When who/ whom is the object of a verb or preposition, translate using quién/quiénes p receded by personal a or another preposition as relevant:
    Who(m) did you call? ¿A quién llamaste?
    Who(m) is she going to marry? ¿Con quién se va a casar?
    You must tell me who you are going to go out with Tienes que decirme con quién/quiénes vas a salir
    In exclamations
    ► Translate using quién/quiénes w ith an accent as in the interrogative form:
    Who would have thought it! ¡Quién lo hubiera pensado!
    As relative
    ► When who/ whom follows the noun it refers to, the most common translation is que:
    Do you recognize the three girls who have just come in? ¿Reconoces a las tres chicas que acaban de entrar?
    Peter, who was at the match, has told me all about it Peter, que estuvo en el partido, me lo ha contado todo
    That man (who(m)) you saw wasn't my father El hombre que viste no era mi padre NOTE: Personal a is not used before que.
    "Who" as subject of a verb
    ► When who is the subject, que can sometimes be substituted by el cual/ la cual or quien (singular) and los cuales/ las cuales or quienes (plural). This can help avoid ambiguity:
    I bumped into Ian and Sue, who had just come back from Madrid Me encontré con Ian y con Sue, la cual or quien acababa de regresar de Madrid ► Only que is possible in cases where subject who can be substituted by that, i.e. where who defines the person in question and the sentence does not make sense if you omit the who clause:
    The little boy who won the cycle race is Sarah's nephew El niñito que ganó la carrera ciclista es el sobrino de Sarah
    "Who(m)" as object of a verb or preposition
    ► When who (m) is the object of a verb, you can translate it using que as above. Alternatively, especially in formal language, use personal a + quien/ quienes or personal a + ((article)) + cual/ cuales {etc} or personal a + ((article)) + que:
    The woman (who or whom) you're describing is my music teacher La señora que or a quien or a la cual or a la que describes es mi profesora de música
    "Who(m)" as object of a preposition
    ► After prepositions, you should usually use que or cual preceded by the article or quien:
    This is the girl (who or whom) I talked to you about esta es la chica de la que or de la cual or de quien te hablé For further uses and examples, see who, whom
    * * *
    noun (= World Health Organization) OMS f

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