Loka
Old Norse Dictionary - lokaMeaning of Old Norse word "loka" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
loka Old Norse word can mean:
- loka
- u, f. a lock (latch); hann rekr aptr hurð ok lætr fyrir loku, Ísl. ii. 135, FmS. vi. 189; lokur ok slagbranda, iv. 299; loka var engi fyrir hurðum, láta lokur frá hurðum, … Auðr lætr loku (lok MS., but loku 114, l. c.) frá hurðu, Gísl. 28–30, FmS. vi. 189, viii. 332, Eg. 601, Lv. 60: the phrase, margr seilisk um hurð til lokunnar, many a man reaches far to catch what is near at hand, (almost answering to the Lat. quod petis hic est), Grett. 107: prop. a peg, Jabel tók búðar-nagla sinn eða loku, ok hamar, Stj. 388, (Judges ii. 21, a nail of the tent.)
- loka
- II. a kind of song, verses running on without division of strophes, lang-loka; urðar-lokur, a warlock song, a charm; for a specimen of a langloka see Snót 72 (Ed. 1850).
- loka
- COMPDS: lokugat, lokulindi, lokurán, lokusveinn, lokuþollr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᚢᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- S.
- Saga.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Gísl.
- Gísla Saga. (D. II.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Lv.
- Ljósvetninga Saga. (D. II.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Snót
- Snót, poems.
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