Lindi
Old Norse Dictionary - lindiMeaning of Old Norse word "lindi" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
lindi Old Norse word can mean:
- lindi
- 1. a, m. [prop., as it seems, from lind = a string of lime-bast], a belt, girdle, Vkv. 17, Hkr. i. 82, Fms. i. 217, vi. 61, Bjarn. 19, 62, Rb. 438, 470, Magn. 468; eigi lagði verri maðr linda at sér, no worse man ever belted himself, Finnb. 260; lindi af lérepti, Bs. i. 317: a belt belonging to a priest’s dress, Vm. 115, = messufata-lindi, Fms. iv. 111. In mod. usage lindi is any twist of wool or hair wound round the waist, hár-lindi, band-lindi, silki-lindi, hnjósku-lindi, q. v.: poët. the sea is called Siggjar-lindi, Raðar-lindi, = the belt of the islands, Lex. poët.
- lindi
- COMPDS: lindabindi, lindalag, lindastaðr.
- lindi
- 2. n. a lime-tree, = lind, Lex. poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᛁᚾᛏᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bjarn.
- Bjarnar Saga. (D. II.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Finnb.
- Finnboga Saga. (D. V.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Magn.
- Magnús Saga jarls. (E. II.)
- Rb.
- Rímbegla. (H. III.)
- Vkv.
- Völundar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Vm.
- Vilkins-máldagi. (J. I.)
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