Því
Old Icelandic Dictionary - þvíMeaning of Old Icelandic word "því" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
því Old Icelandic word can mean:
- því
- (prop. dat. from þat), adv. and conj.
- því
- 1) therefore (varð ~ ekki af ferðinni);
- því
- af ~, therefore;
- því
- 2) af ~ at, ~ at, because, for (tókst eigi atreiðin, því at búendr frestuðu);
- því
- 3) ~ at eins, only on that condition
- því
- 4) why, = hví (only in later texts);
- því
- 5) with compar., the; hann var ~ ástsælli sem hann var ellri, he was the more beloved the older he grew.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚦᚢᛁ
Abbreviations used:
- adv.
- adverb.
- conj.
- conjunction.
- dat.
- dative.
- compar.
- comparative.
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