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bar-átta,
u,
f.
[North.
E.
barett
obsolete],
gener.
a
fight,
contest:
.
a
row,
Gþl.
176.
.
a
fight,
battle,
Fas.
i.
26.
.
now
freq.,
esp.
=
strife,
contest.
COMPDS:
baráttu-maðr,
m.
a
warrior,
þiðr.
67.
baráttu-samr,
adj.
troublesome,
Barl.
137.
barberr,
m.
(for.
word),
a
barber,
N.
G.
L.
iii.
no.
15.
BARÐ,
n.
[identical
in
etymology
but
not
in
sense
to
Lat.
barba,
Engl.
beard,
Germ,
bart;
the
Scandin.
dialects
all
call
the
beard
skegg;
Swed.
skägg;
Dan.
skjœg;
barð
in
the
sense
of
barba
is
quite
alien
from
the
Scandin.
idioms;
the
passages,
Edda
109
(skegg
heitir
barð)
and
höggva
börðum
í
gras,
Id.
UNCERTAIN
12,
a
poem
of
the
end
of
the
13th
century,
are
isolated
instances:
bart
in
Dan.
is
a
mod.
word]
:--
Lat.
ora,
margo:
.
a
brim
of
a
helmet
or
hat
(hjálmbarð,
hattbarð),
Fas.
iii.
341.
.
the
verge,
edge
of
a
hill
(holtbarð,
túnbarð,
brekkubarð,
hólbarð,
etc.),
freq.
in
local
names
of
farms
in
Icel.
.
the
wing
or
side
fin
of
some
fishes,
e.
g.
whales,
cp.
barðhvalr;
of
flat
fishes,
raja
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