Hjúfa
Old Norse Dictionary - hjúfaMeaning of Old Norse word "hjúfa" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
hjúfa Old Norse word can mean:
- hjúfa
- or hjúfra, [Ulf. hiufan = θρηνειν, Matth. xi. 17, Luke vii. 32; A. S. heofjan; Hel. hiovan; O. H. G. hiufan; and no doubt also Engl. to heave = to pant, breathe with pain, which is not to be confounded with heave = to lift]:—to pant, heave, Gkv. 1. 1, 2. 11 (obsolete).
- hjúfa
- II. in provincial Icel. to drizzle; and hjúfr-skúrir, f. pl. a drizzling shower, Lex. Poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᚢᚠᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Hel.
- Heliand.
- l.
- line.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- S.
- Saga.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- pl.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Gkv.
- Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.