Leggja
Viking Language Dictionary - leggjaMeaning of Old Norse / Old Icelandic word "leggja"
- leggja
vb (3) to lay, place, put; appoint, fix; stab, thrust; leggja á impose; leggja frá withdraw; leggja í spánu smash into pieces; leggja til attack (by stabbing); leggja til barðaga attack; leggja til [f somebody or something,’ genetive)">e-s] með [e-u] attack [sb] with [sth]; leggja undir sik conquer; lífit á leggja lay down one’s life; leggjask mid lay, set oneself; leggjask á [e-t] prey upon (of robbers, beasts of prey, etc), fall upon, attack [sth]; leggjask niðr lay oneself down; leggjask út set out (into the wilderness to live as an outlaw)
Possible runic inscriptions in Younger Futhark:
- - Long branch (Danish):ᛚᛁᚴᚴᛁᛅ
- - Short twig (Swedish & Norwegian):ᛚᛁᚴᚴᛁᛆ
Abbreviations used:
- e-s
- einhvers ‘of somebody or something,’ genetive)
- e-t
- einhvern, eitthvat ‘somebody, something’ accusative
- e-u
- einhverjum, einhverju ‘for somebody, something,’ dative
- etc
- et cetera
- f
- feminine
- imp
- imperative
- leg
- legal usage
- mid
- middle voice
- n
- neuter
- pl
- plural
- sb
- somebody
- sth
- something
- vb
- verb