a border or bordering strip, usually of cloth. a selvage. selvages collectively. a strip of cloth or other material. a strip or band of any kind. a stripe of color. a division of the hair or beard. one of the ridges or furrows of earth made by alister. ...
- Old Norse for "narrative." See also related terms for narrative. Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. saga - a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally ...
"Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order" [Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTable Talk] "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them" [Marianne MoorePoetry] "Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history" [AristotlePoetics]...
Old English lust "desire, appetite; inclination, pleasure; sensuous appetite," from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch lust, German Lust, Old Norse lyst, Gothic lustus "pleasure, desire, lust"), abstract noun from PIE *las- "to be eager, wanton, or ...
"a narrow strip," Old Englishliste"border, hem, edge, strip," from Proto-Germanic*liston(cognates: Old High Germanlista"strip, border, list," Old Norselista"border, selvage,"Germanleiste), from PIE*leizd-"border, band" (see list (n.1)). The Germanic root also is the source of Fre...
"a narrow strip," Old Englishliste"border, hem, edge, strip," from Proto-Germanic*liston(cognates: Old High Germanlista"strip, border, list," Old Norselista"border, selvage,"Germanleiste), from PIE*leizd-"border, band" (see list (n.1)). The Germanic root also is the source of Fre...
The application to the study of mutual intelligibility between closely related languages on the other hand has never gained much traction. This article will analyse the degree of mutual intelligibility between the vocabularies of Old English (Anglian) and Old Norse (Old Icelandic) with the use of ...
Old Englishblæc"absolutely dark, absorbing all light, of the color of soot or coal," reconstructed to be from Proto-Germanic*blakaz"burned" (source also of Old Norseblakkr"dark," Old High Germanblah"black," Swedishbläck"ink," Dutchblaken"to burn"), from PIE*bhleg-"to burn, glea...
The name comes from Old Norse and means "Might of the Æsir" or "Might of the Gods". Ásmegin's lyrics are written in Norwegian as well as some in Old Norse and older Norwegian. Some of the tracks on Hin vordende Sod og Sø are modeled after the Norwegian play Peer Gynt by...
French and Italian borrowed their words from an ancient Germanic language, such as Old High German lista or Old Norse lista. Only the Germanic languages kept the PIE word, leizd-/loizd- "border, band". So, our word list originally referred to something long and narrow. Article comes from...