gátt
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Icelandic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse gátt, from Proto-Germanic *ganhtiz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gátt f (genitive singular gáttar, nominative plural gáttir or gættir)
Declension[edit]
declension of gátt
Derived terms[edit]
- í hálfa gátt (ajar, half-open)
Old Norse[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *ganhtiz (“the act of going”).
Noun[edit]
gátt f (genitive gáttar, plural gáttir)
- the rabbet of a doorsill or doorpost
- (plural only) doorway
- verse 1 of the Hávamál
- Gáttir allar, / áðr gangi fram, / um skoðask skyli, / um skyggnask skyli, / því at óvíst er at vita, / hvar óvinir / sitja á fleti fyrir.
- [at] all doorways, / ere one goes forth, / one should spy, / one should be keen, / for 'tis impossible to know, / where foes / sit on the floor within.
- Synonym: dyrr
- verse 1 of the Hávamál
Declension[edit]
Declension of gátt (strong i-stem)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- gátt in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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