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1 auki
m.1) addition, increase (auki fagnaðar, pínsla);verða at moldar auka, to become dust, to die;til auka, in addition, to boot;fœrast í alla auka (afls síns), to exert to the utmost one’s bodily strength;2) seed, progeny, offspring (eigi gaft þú mér auka eðr afkvæmi);* * *1. increase, addition; Abram tók þann auka nafns síns, Ver. 14; a. öfundar ok hatrs, Stj. 192: cp. also in the phrase, verða at moldar auka, to become dust, to die, in a verse in the Hervar. S. Fas. i. 580; cp. maðr er moldu samr, man is but dust, Sl. 47; and another proverb, lauki er lítið gæft til auka, used by Sighvat (Lex. Poët.), the leek needs but little care to grow; sárs-auki, pain, Mirm. 47; Danmerkr auki is a poët. name of Zealand used by Bragi, Edda I: the phrase, í miklum auka, in a huge, colossal shape, Glúm. 345 (in a verse); hence perhaps comes the popular phrase, að færast í aukana (or haukana), to exert to the utmost one’s bodily strength, Glámr færðist í alla auka (of one wrestling), Grett. 114 A, (Ed. 1853 has færðist í aukana.)2. metaph. seed, germs, thou hast given me no seed, Stj. III. Gen. xv. 2; esp. the sperm of whales, amber, Sks. 137.β. produce of the earth, Barl. 193, 200.γ. interest of capital, N. G. L. ii. 380; vide áauki, sársauki, sakauki, i. 187.COMPDS: aukadagr, aukahlutr, aukanafn, aukasmíði, aukatungl, aukaverk, aukavika.
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