Kví
Old Norse Dictionary - kvíMeaning of Old Norse word "kví" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
kví Old Norse word can mean:
- kví
- f., pl. kvíar, [quey or quoy, Orkn. and Shetl.], a fold, pen, esp. where sheep are milked; reka fé í kvíar, Hrafn. 8; ær í kvíum, Dipl. ii. 14; útlagask hann við þann er kvína á, Grág. ii. 329; ór kví þeirri, id.; ef búfé gengr ór kvíum, Js. 100; kvía gimbill, a young sheep, Sturl. ii. 150; sem sauðir í kví, Fms. viii. 219; hugðisk mundu taka þá í kvíum sem sauði til skurðar, 60:—in mod. usage in pl. the pen where sheep are milked, moka kvíar, Bjarn. (in a verse), Ísl. Þjóðs., Piltr og Stúlka, Snót:—metaph. a lane of men branching like a fork = klömbr, Ó. H. 119, Orkn. 468, Eg. 232, Sturl. i. 29, Fms. vi. 69: in plur., Lv. 95, Glúm. 386.
- kví
- COMPDS: kvíaból, kvíagarðr, kvíaveggr, Kvíarmið, Kví-á, Kvía-bekkr, Landn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚢᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- esp.
- especially.
- f.
- feminine.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- plur.
- plural.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bjarn.
- Bjarnar Saga. (D. II.)
- Dipl.
- Diplomatarium. (J. I.)
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Glúm.
- Víga-Glúms Saga. (D. II.)
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Hrafn.
- Hrafnkels Saga. (D. II.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
- Js.
- Járnsíða. (B. III.)
- Lv.
- Ljósvetninga Saga. (D. II.)
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Snót
- Snót, poems.
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
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