Skera

Old Icelandic Dictionary - skera

Meaning of Old Icelandic word "skera" in English.

As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):

skera Old Icelandic word can mean:

skera: (sker; skar, skárum; skorinn), v.

skera: 1) to cut (þeir skáru böndin);

skera: ~ e-n á háls, to cut one’s throat (Karkr þræll skar hann á háls);

skera: ~ út ór, to cut right through;

skera: 2) to slaughter (~ sauði, kálf, kið, dilk, geldinga);

skera: 3) to shape, cut (hann skar hár hans ok negl);

skera: 4) to cut, mow, reap (~ akr);

skera: 5) to carve, cut out (á brúðum stólsins var skorinn Þórr, ok var þat líkneski mikit);

skera: 6) ~ e-m höfuð, to make faces at one;

skera: skapa ok ~, to have all the say in a matter;

skera: láta skapat ~, to let fate decide;

skera: 7) with preps. and advs.:

skera: ~ e-t af, to cut off;

skera: ~ af manni, to be reserved or reticent;

skera: ~ lítt af manni, to speak one’s mind;

skera: ~ niðr kvikfé, to slaughter the live stock (for want of fodder);

skera: ~ ór e-u, to decide, settle (~ ór vanda-málum);

skera: nú er þat vili várr, at einn veg skeri ór, that the case be settled;

skera: ~ upp herör, þingboð, to dispatch a war-arrow, gathering-stick;

skera: ~ upp akr, to reap a field;

skera: 8) refl., ~st, to stretch, branch, of a fjord, valley;

skera: fjörðr skarst langt inn í landit, stretched far into the land;

skera: höfðarnir skárust á víxl, the headlands stretched across, overlapped one another;

skera: s. í setgeira-brœkr, to put on a mzn’s breeches;

skera: ef nökkut skerst í, if anything happens;

skera: skarst allt í odda með þeim, þat sem við bar, they fell at odds about everything that happened;

skera: s. ór e-u máli, to withdraw (shrink) from a cause (gangi nú allir til mín ok sveri eiða, at engi skerist ór þessu máli);

skera: s. undan e-u, to refuse, decline doing a thing (mun lokit okkrum samförum, ef þú skerst undan förinni);

skera: s. undan, to hang back (Þeir fýstu hann at sættast, en hann skarst undan).

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛁᚱᛅ

Abbreviations used:

e-m: einhverjum.

e-t: eitthvat.

e-u: einhverju.

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