Miðr
Old Icelandic Dictionary - miðrMeaning of Old Icelandic word "miðr" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
miðr Old Icelandic word can mean:
- miðr
- I)
- miðr
- (mið, mitt), a. middle, lying in the middle; nær miðri veröldinni, near the middle of the world; G. leggr í móti atgeirinum ok kom á hann miðjan, and struck him in the middle; áin var opin um mitt, in the middle; mið nótt, midnight (þá var mið nótt); m. dagr, midday (þat var nær miðjum degi, er þeir fundust); m. aptann, six o’clock p. m.; m. morginn, six o’clock a. m.; at miðjum vetri, um miðjan vetr, at midwinter; mitt sumar, midsummer; miðrar brautar, in the middle of the road.
- miðr
- II)
- miðr
- adv. = minnr, less.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛁᚦᚱ
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- adv.
- adverb.
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