Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (Danish: Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog), abbreviated as ONP, is a dictionary of the vocabulary attested in medieval West Scandinavian prose texts. [1] The dictionary is funded through the Arnamagnæan Commission and is based in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen ...
The transformation of "lof" into "løv" most likely came from the Old Norse letter "F", which depending on the word, would have been pronounced either as "F" or "V". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Over time, this would have led to lof being written as lov .
Possibly from Old Norse krasa (="shatter") via Old French crasir [55] creek kriki ("corner, nook") through ME creke ("narrow inlet in a coastline") altered from kryk perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman crique itself from a Scandinavian source via Norman-French [56] crochet from Old Norse krokr "hook" via French crochet "small hook; canine tooth ...
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Dictionary of Old Norse Prose; E. E caudata; Eitr; Eivor; English surnames of Norse origin; Ergi; List of Old Norse exonyms; F ...
The First Grammatical Treatise (Icelandic: Fyrsta málfræðiritgerðin, [a] roughly: "first language studies writ act") is a 12th-century work on the phonology of the Old Norse or Old Icelandic language. It was given this name because it is the first of four grammatical works bound in the Icelandic manuscript Codex Wormianus. The anonymous ...
FREELANG Dictionary has its roots in the Dutch Dictionary Project, started in 1996 by Frits van Zanten and his friend Tom van der Meijden.The project initially consisted of electronic wordlists from Dutch to other languages, but with a team of volunteers around the world, they started to build websites to distribute the program and some word lists based on their language expertise.
The world known to the Norse. The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians. As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles.