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Source: Torp, page b0492, entry 2
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staigô f. Steig, Weg, stga, stgu m. Steg, Weg. g. staiga f. Steig, Weg; an. (Ortsname) steig; ahd. steiga, mhd. steige f. steile Fahrstraße, oberdeutsch mundartl. staig f. Ablautend an. stîgr und stgr g. -s. -ar pl. acc. -a, -u m. Fußsteig; mnd. stîch (-g-) und stech (-g-) m. Steig, Fußweg, Steg, ahd. stîc, stîg, mhd. stîc (-g-) m. Steig, Pfad, Stufe, nhd. Steig, ahd. steg, mhd. stec (-g-) m. Steg, kleine Brücke. Vgl. ags. stîg f. Steig, ndl. steeg f. Gäßchen (germ. stgô). Vgl. lett. stiga, Pfad; asl. stdza, stza dass., stgna Straße. - alb. tek (aus stoigh) Durchgang, Eingang. - lat. vestigium Spur. - gr. [sti'xos] pl. [sti'xes] Reihe, [stoi=xos] m. Reihe, Linie.

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Source: Bosworth/Toller, page b0920, entry 1
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Ðá stáh hé on scip ascendit navem, Bd. 5, 9 ; S. 623, 27. Beornas on stefn stigon, Beo. Th. 429 ; B. 212, In ceól stigon, Andr. Kmbl. 697 ; An. 349. Ðá gé on holm stigon, 858 ; An. 429. Leóde on wang stigon they landed, Beo. Th. 456 ; B. 225. Æ-acute;r hé on bed stige, 1357 ; B. 676. Stígan on wægn, Exon. Th. 404, 16 ; Rä. 23, 8. Hét hé nne mon stígan on ðone mæst (adscendere in arborem navis), Ors. 4, 10 ; Swt. 202, 2. (3) Where the movement is downwards, to descend :--Ne stíhþ hé nyðer ne descendat, Lk. Skt. 17, 31. Ða stígaþ on helle in infernunt descenderent, Past. 55, 2 ; Swt. 429, 26. Ðá stáh and com smylte reng, Bd. 4, 13 ; S. 582, 34. Hié on sund stigon they went down into the bed of the Red Sea, Cd. Th. 198, 8 ; Exod. 319. Stíh ádún descend, Homl. Th. i. 580, 33. Ne stíge hé on his hús non descendat in domum, Mk. Skt. 13, 15. Ðæt engel ufan of roderum stígan cwóme, Cd. Th. 248, 8 ; Dan. 510. Niþer stígende, of dúne stígende descendentem, Mt. Kmbl. 3, 16 : Jn. Skt. l, 51. II. trans. To ascend, mount :--Heáhlond stigon sibgemágas, Cd. Th. 202, 9 ; Exod. 385. Stealc hliþo stígan, Exon. Th. 498, 18 ; Rä. 88, 3. [The verb remained long in English and is used by Spenser : 'Ambition, rash desire to sty,' F. Q. ii. 7, 46. Goth. steigan : O. Sax. O. L. Ger. O. H. Ger. stígan : Du. stijgen : Ger. steigen : O. Frs. stíga : Icel. stíga : Dan. stige : Swed. stiga.] v. á-, fore-, ge-, ofer-stígan.

Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0277, entry 47
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gád a goad. Add:--Gaad stiga, Wrt. Voc. ii. 121, 43. Gád cuspis, 17, 4. Derigendlic bið ðé þæt þú spurne ongeán þá gáde (durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare). Gif se oxa spyrnð ongeán ðá gád, hit dereð him sylfum, Hml. Th. i. 390, 9: 386, 9.

Source: Bosworth/Toller, page d0712, entry 6
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stig(?). In l. 3 for suestrina substitute ustrina ubi porci ustulantur, dele last passage, and add: v. gát-ánstíg(?): stíga(?). l. stiga (cf. Icel. ein-stigi), and add(?) :-- Andlang weges tó reádan ánstigan, C. D. v. 166, 7.

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0096, entry 3
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DANZ, mod. dans, n. a word of for. origin; [cp. mid. Lat. dansare; Fr. danser; Ital. danzare; Engl. dance; Germ. tanz, tanzen.] This word is certainly not Teutonic, but of Roman or perhaps Breton origin: the Icel. or Scandin. have no genuine word for dancing, -- leika means 'to play' in general: the word itself (danza, danz, etc.) never occurs in the old Sagas or poetry, though popular amusements of every kind are described there; but about the end of the 11th century, when the Sagas of the bishops (Bs.) begin, we find dance in full use, accompanied by songs which are described as loose and amorous: the classical passage is Jóns S. (A.D. 1106-1121), ch. 13. Bs. i. 165, 166, and cp. Júns S. by Gunnlaug, ch. 24. Bs. i. 237 -- Leikr sá var kær mönnum áðr en hinn heilagi Jón varð biskup, at kveða skyldi karlmaðr til konu í danz blautlig kvæði ok rægilig; ok kona til karlmanns mansöngs vísur; þenna leik lét hann af taka ok bannaði styrkliga; mansöngs kvæði vildi hann eigi heyra né kveða láta, en þó fékk hann því eigi af komið með öllu. Some have thought that this refers to mythical (Eddic) poetry, but without reason and against the literal sense of the passage; the heathen heroic poems were certainly never used to accompany a dance; their flow and metre are a sufficient proof of that. In the Sturl. (Hist. of the 12th and 13th century) dancing is mentioned over and over again; and danz is used of popular ballads or songs of a satirical character (as those in Percy's ballads): flimt (loose song) and danz are synonymous words; the Sturl. has by chance preserved two ditties (one of A.D. 1221, running thus -- Loptr liggr í Eyjum, bítr lunda bein | Sæmundr er á heiðum, etr berin ein. Stud. ii. 62, and one referring to the year 1264 -- Mínar eru sorgirnar þungar sem blý, Sturl. iii. 317) sufficient to shew the flow and metre, which are exactly the same as those of the mod. ballads, collected in the west of Icel. (Ögr) in the 17th century under the name of Fornkvæði, Old Songs, and now edited by Jon Sigurdsson and Svend Grundtvig. Danz and Fornkvæði are both of the same kind, and also identical with Engl. ballads, Dan. kæmpeviser. There are passages in Sturl. and B.S. referring to this subject -- færðu Breiðbælingar Lopt í flimtun ok görðu um hann danza marga, ok margskonar spott annat, Sturl. ii. 57, cp. 62; Danza-Bergr, the nickname of a man (Stud, ii), prob. for composing comic songs; danza- görð, composing comic songs; fylgðar-menn Kolbeins fóru með danza- görð, ... en er Brandr varð varr við flimtan þeirra, iii. 80; þá hrökti Þórðr hestinn undir sér, ok kvað danz þenna við raust, 317. . a wake, Arna S. ch. 2; in Sturl. i. 23; at the banquet in Reykhólar, 1119, the guests amused themselves by dancing, wrestling, and story-telling; þá var sleginn danz í stofu, ii. 117; í Viðvík var gleði mikil ok gott at vera; þat var einn Drottins dag at þar var danz mikill; kom þar til fjöldi manna; ok ríðr hann í Viðvík til danz, ok var þar at leik; ok dáðu menn mjök danz hans, iii. 258, 259; honum var kostr á boðinn hvat til gamans skyldi hafa, sögur eða danz um kveldit, 281; -- the last reference refers to the 21st of January, 1258, which fell on a Sunday (or wake-day): in ballads and tales of the Middle Ages the word is freq. :-- note the allit. phrase, dansinn dunar, Ísl. Þóðs. ii. 8: the phrases, stiga danz; ganga í danz; brúðir í danz, dansinn heyra; dans vill hun heyra, Fkv. ii. 7. Many of the burdens to the mod. Icel. ballads are of great beauty, and no doubt many centuries older than the ballads to which they are affixed; they refer to lost love, melancholy, merriment, etc., e.g. Blítt lætur veröldin, fölnar fögr fold | langt er síðan mitt var yndið lagt í mold, i. 74; Út ert þú við æginn blá, eg er hér á Dröngum, | kalla eg löngum, kalla eg til þin löngum; Skín á skildi Sól og sumarið fríða, | dynur í velli er drengir í burtu riða, 110; Ungan leit eg hofmann í fögrum runni, | skal eg í hljóði dilla þeim mér unm; Austan blakar laufið á þann linda, 129; Fagrar heyrða eg raddirnar við Niflunga heim; Fagrt syngr svanrinn um sumarlanga tíð, | þá mun list að leika sér mín liljan fríð, ii. 52: Einum unna eg manninum, á meðan það var, | þó hlaut eg minn harm að bera í leyndum stað, 94; Svanrinn víða. svanurinn syngr viða, 22; Utan eptir firðinum, sigla fagrar fleyr | sá er enginn glaður eptir annan þreyr, 110; Svo er mér illt og angrsamt því veldur þú, | mig langar ekki í lundinn með þá jungfrú, Espol. Ann. 1549. The earliest ballads seem to have been devoted to these subjects only; of the two earliest specimens quoted in the Sturl. (above), one is satirical, the other melancholy; the historical ballads seem to be of later growth: the bishops discountenanced the wakes and dancing (Bs. l.c., Sturl. iii), but in vain: and no more telling proof can be given of the drooping spirits of Icel. in the last century, than that dancing and wakes ceased, after having been a popular amusement for seven hundred years. Eggert Olafsson in his poems still speaks of wakes, as an eyewitness; in the west of Icel. (Vestfirðir) they lasted longer, but even there they died out about the time that Percy's ballads were published in England. The Fornkvæði or songs are the only Icel. poetry which often dispenses with the law of alliteration, which in other cases is the light and life of Icel. poetry; vide also hofmaðr, viki-vakar, etc. In the 15th century the rímur (metrical paraphrases of romances) were used as an accompaniment to the danz, höldar danza harla snart, ef heyrist vísan mín; hence originates the name man-söngr (maid-song), minne-sang, which forms the introduction to every ríma or rhapsody; the metre and time of the rímur are exactly those of ballads and well suited for dancing. An Icel. MS. of the 17th century, containing about seventy Icel. Fornkvæði, is in the Brit. Mus. no. 11,177; and another MS., containing about twenty such songs, is in the Bodl. Libr. no. 130.

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0243, entry 17
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HÁR, adj., fem. há, neut. hátt, vide Gramm. p. xix; compar. hæri or hærri, superl. hæstr; hæðstr and hærstr, which are found in old printed books, are bad forms; for the inflexions, (which vary much, sometimes inserting f or v, sometimes not,) see the references below; in mod. usage the v is usually dropped, but the cases are bisyllabic, e.g. háir, háar, háa, háum, instead of the old hávir, hávar, háva, háfum or hám; the definite form in old writers is hávi or háfi, in mod. hái: [Ulf. hauhs = GREEK; A. S. heah; Engl. high; O. H. G. hoh; Hel. hoh; Germ. hoch; old Frank, hag or hach; Swed. hög; Dan. höj; all of them with a final guttural, which in mod. Dan. has been changed into j; the final labial f or v, which in olden times was so freq. before a vowel, may be compared to laugh, rough, etc. in mod. Engl.; the g remains in the cognate word haugr] :-- high; stiga sex álna háfan, Vm. 129; í hám fjalla-tindum, Edda 144 (pref.); á háfum fjöllum, Skálda 181; há fjöll, Getsp.; á hám gálga, Fsm. 45; á bekk hám, Akv. 2; hár bylgjur, Edda (Ht.); á borg inni há, Am. 18; á há fjalli, Gm. 17, Bs. i. 26 (in a verse); enar hæstu fjalla hæðir, Stj. 59; hár turn, Hkr. iii. 63; skaptið var eigi hæra, en ..., Eg. 285 (of a spear); hátt hlaup, a high leap, i.e. from a high place, Fms. i. 166; hæri en grön er vex á hæsta fjalli, Hom. 152; hávar bárur, Gh. 13: hávar unnir, Skv. 2. 16; háfan garð, Fms. vi. (in a verse); hávu grasi, Hm. 120; but há grasi. Gm. 17; upp-háfa skúa, high boots, Fms. vii. 321: phrases, bera hæra skjöld, hlut, to carry the highest shield, lot, Fas. i. 383, Ld. 322. 2. tall; hárr maðr vexti (tall of stature), manna hæstr, very tall, Fms. i. 155; hárr maðr ok harðvaxinn, vii. 321. 3. a metrical term; syllables in rhyme having the same consonants and quantity of vowels are jafn-háfar, in the same strain; kvattú svá? 'gröm skömm' eigi eru þær hendingar jafn háfar; 'hrömm skömm' þat væri jafnhátt, Fms. vi. 386. II. metaph. high, sublime, glorious; hærri tign, Fms. i. 214; enir hæstu Guðs postular, 625. 82; í hærra haldi, Fms. vii. 112; margar ræður þvílíkar eða enn hæri, or still sublimer, Sks. 635; hljóta háfan sigr, a glorious victory, Merl. 2. 69; háfan ávöxt, Mar. kv. 17; hæstu daga, hæstu hátíðir, the highest days or feasts (hátíð), Fms. x. 22. 2. at the highest pitch; meðan hæstir eru stormar um vetrinn, Sks. 46; at hann væri kyrr meðan hæst væri vetrar, in the depth of winter, Fms. ix. 480; meðan hæst væri sumars, in the height of summer, Lv. 43; hátt vetrar megin, Sks.; cp. há-degi, há-vetr, há-sumar

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0404, entry 112
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LÖGR, m., gen. lagar; dat. legi. pl. legir, Lil. 31; acc. lögu, Fb. 1. 525 (in a verse); [A. S. lagu; cp. Engl. lake; O. H. G. Iqgu; Lat. locus'] :-- the sea; koma urn log, to come by sea, Vsp. 51: in the allit. phrase, lopt ok log, air and s e a, Sks. 47, Skm. 6; lands eða lagar, o n land or sea; or á landi eða legi, Grág. ii. 171, Al. 107; hvergi kom ek þar lands ne lagar, at... . Bs. i. 721, ii. 5, í 22; lagar hjarta, 'sea-heart, ' poet, for a stone, Ýt.; lagar sîóð, the sea steeds' -- ships, Lex. Poët.; stiga land af le, gi, Hkv. Hjörv. 26. 2. a local name of large lakes, e. g. Logr = the Melar in Sweden, 0. H.; or of a great estuary, við á þá er Tanais heitir ok bann log er þar fellr or, Stj. II. water, any liquid; tak log af grasi, Pr. 471; síðan tók hann sér log nökkurn, kastaði þar í öskunni, ok gorði af graut, Fms. ii. 163; ly'si, hunang ok allskyns lögr annarr, K. Á. 206; í vatni vörmu eða köldu, en öngum legi oðrum eða vokva, H. E. i. 480; af þeim legi er lekit hafði ór hausi, Sdm. 13; verpa lauki í lög, 8; spræna rauðum legi, Ó. H. (in a verse); sár-lögr, benja-lögr = blood; hræ-lögr, hjör-lögr, id., Lex. Poët.: lögr Sonar, Boðnar = the poetical mead, Edda; hver-Higr Óðins, id., Ht. III. the Rune | (A. S. lagu.)

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0592, entry 19
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stigi, a, m., stegi, Sks. 423 (v.l.), 428 B, [stigr] :-- a step, ladder, steep ascent; hann sá stiga frá himnum, Ó.H. 211; stiga sex álna hávan, Vm. 129; stigi skal til eldhúss hvers vera, ok tveir krókar í hverjum fjórðungi, N.G.L. ii. 248, passim in old and mod. usage: of a scaling ladder in war, Al. 146, Sks. 413, 423, 428: the phrase, leggja á stiga, to stretch on a ladder, as on a rack, Fms. ix. 349. II. Stigi, Stiga-gnúpr, a local name, Landn. stiga-hapt, n. a step in a ladder.

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0592, entry 21
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STIGR (also sounded stígr, stíg and víg make rhyme in old poems), m., gen. stigs, dat. stig; n. pl. stigar, stiga, which forms seem older and better than stigir, stigu, which also occur: [A.S. stíg; Early Engl. stie; Engl. stair; Dan. sti; Germ. steg; cp. North. E. stye or stie, a steep ascent or pass, as in stye-head Pass] :-- a path, footway; sveinarnir hljópu þegar á stiginn er heim lá til bæjarins, Fms. ii. 100; sá er stigana hafði bannat, Fs. 5; dreif liðit af hverjum stig (dat.). Anal. 88; ok ferr þá stigu, Edda 44; taka úkunna stiga, to walk in unknown paths, Fms, viii. 30; kanna ókunna stigu, to visit unknown paths, i.e. foreign lands; ganga þessa stigu, Fs. 32; þóttú lafir á stigum, id.; hylr stigu alla, of snow, Gísl. 28 (drífr í stigu alla, 112. l.c.); stemma stiga fyrir e-m, to bar one's way, cut one off, Róm. 213; vega ok stiga, ways and paths, Sks. 625 B; götu ok stigu, Greg. 31; ryðja stiginn, to rid or clear the way, Eg. 289; af-stigr, Fs. 5; hjá-stigr, a by-path; leyni-stigr (q.v.), a hidden path; gagn-stígr, a 'gain-path,' short cut; glap-stigr, vil-stigr, stafkarls-stigr, ein-stigi, q.v. stiga-maðr, m. a highwayman. Eg. 537, Fs. 8, Gullþ. 10, Fms. v. 46; stigamenn ok ránsmenn, Hkr. ii. 336.

Source: Cleasby/Vigfusson, page b0594, entry 1
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steigan = A.S. stîgan, Old Engl. to sty; Germ. steigen, etc.] :-- to step, esp. to step upwards; hón mátti ekki stíga á fótinn, Bs. i. 343; stíga fótum á Noreg, á land, to set foot on, Fms. x. 259; svá nær landi, at maðr má stíga á hólmann, Sks. 93 B; stíga í skó, N.G.L. i. 31; hann sté í gólfit upp at ökla, Fms. iii. 188; þú steigt (v.l. stétt) upp ór ánni, vii. 160; annarr fótr sökk áðr öðrum væri upp stigit, ix. 511, v.l.; s. yfir borð, to step over the table, Sks. 259; s. fram, to step forward, Nj. 50, 52; s. undan borði, to rise from table, Ísl. ii. 352; þeir stigu á skíð, Eg 545; stiga á skip, to go on board, Nj. 19, Fms. viii. 228; s. í bát, ix. 374, Nj. 172; s. á hest, to mount one's horse, Fms. xi. 332; s. á bak, to get on horseback, Nj. 58; s. af hesti, af baki, to alight, 53, 58, 104, Eg. 744: stíga stórum, to stride, take long steps; hann spurði hverr þar stigi stórum, Bs. i. 628 (stór-stígr, smá-stígr); s. fyrir borð, to leap overboard, Fms. ii. 117; s. ofan, to step down, x. 238; s. upp, to ascend; s. upp til himna, Rb. 56; s. niðr, to descend, 623. 8; cp. upp-stigning, ascent; niðr-stigning, descent: s. í fótspor e-m, Fs. 4, Sks. 13; s. til ríkis, to ascend the throne, Fms. x. 390, 410, 415; s. til föður-leifðar sinnar, xi. 331; konungr steig til vizku, x. 380 :-- s. yfir, to overcome, Blas. 50; stíg þú yfir íllt með góðu, Hom. 6; at stíga yfir höfuð þvílíkum höfðingjum, Fms. vii. 296; en nú er svá komit aldri mínum, at þat er á öngri stundu örvænt, nær elli stígr yfir höfuð mér, Eb. 332; ef talan stígr yfir (oversteps, exceeds) sjau, Rb. 128. 2. with acc., steig hann keflit af spjóts-oddinum, Fms. xi. 347; hann steig í sundr orbit, Fb. i. 522. II. reflex., sú reiði stígsk yfir með þolinmæði, Hom. 26; hirð eigi þú yfir at stígask af íllu, 6. Róm. xii. 21. 2. part., yfir-stiginn, overcome, vanquished, 625. 40, Sks. 551.

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