Burr
Old Norse Dictionary - burrMeaning of Old Norse word "burr" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- burr
- m., gen. ar, pl. ir, a son, akin to bera and barn, but poët., being used in prose only in allit. phrases such as, eigi buri við bónda sínum, Stj. 428; sem burr eðr bróðir, Fms. xi. 75; áttu börn og buru (acc. pl.) grófu rætr og muru is a standing peroration of Icel. nursery tales, Ísl. Þjóðs. ii. 319, vide Lex. poët.: else in prose only used in the weak form in the compd words tví-buri, twins; þrí-buri, three at a birth, (in modern statistics even fleir-buri.)
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᚱᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- acc.
- accusative.
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- gen.
- genitive.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- lit.
- literally.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- poët.
- poetically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
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