Hlaða
Old Icelandic Dictionary - hlaðaMeaning of Old Icelandic word "hlaða" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
hlaða Old Icelandic word can mean:
- hlaða
- I)
- hlaða
- (hleð; hlóð, hlóðum; hlaðinn), v.
- hlaða
- 1) to pile up (h. korni í hjálma); h. grjóti (hellum) at höfði oðrum, to be present at another’s burial, to survive;
- hlaða
- 2) to build, with acc. (h. vegg, vörðu);
- hlaða
- 3) to load, esp. lade a ship (h. skip e-u, af e-u, með e-u); kistur hlaðnar af gulli, chests laden with gold;
- hlaða
- 4) to fell, lay prostrate, with dat. (gátu þeir hlaðit honum um síðir ok bundu hann); h. seglum, to take in sail;
- hlaða
- 5) to slay (bera vápn á Finnana ok fá hlaðit þeim);
- hlaða
- 6) refl., ~st at, to throng, crowd; vér viljum eigi, at fjölmenni hlaðist at (throng to see), er vér erum afklæddir; ~st á mara bóga, to mount the horses.
- hlaða
- II)
- hlaða
- f. store-house, barn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛚᛅᚦᛅ
Abbreviations used:
- acc.
- accusative.
- e-u
- einhverju.
- esp.
- especially.
- dat.
- dative.
- f.
- feminine.
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