Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ you have here. The definition of the word
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Proto-Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wajamērijaz or ᚹᚨᛃᛖ- (waje- /wajē/, “woe”) + *ᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ (*mariʀ /mārīʀ/, “renowned, famous”). First element derived from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe; evil”), identical to that of Old Norse vesall (“wretched”) and veill (“ailing, diseased”), second from *mērijaz (“renowned”), ancestor of Old Norse mærr. Compare Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌾𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wajamērjan, “to slander, blaspheme”), 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (wailamēreis, “of good repute”).
The connecting vowel -ē- has been explained as progressive i-umlaut, but an i-umlauted vowel is never otherwise written with the ᛖ-rune (indeed, mārīʀ here is the ancestor of Old Norse mærr, with i-umlaut). Antonsen (2002) reads waje as wajē, the dative singular of a neuter ja-stem, corresponding to the dative singular of a *wają, compared with Sanskrit उवे (uve) and Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬫𐬋𐬌 (vayōi). He thus interprets wajemariʀ as two words rather than one, but this is a minority position.
Adjective
ᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ (wajemariʀ /wajēmāriʀ/)
- ill-famed, of poor repute
- c. 200 AD, Thorsberg chape, found near Süderbrarup, Germany.
ᛟᚹᛚᚦᚢᚦᛖᚹᚨᛉ ¶ ᚾᛁᚹᚨᛃᛖᛗᚨᚱᛁᛉ
owlþuþewaʀ ¶ niwajemariʀ- Wolþuþewaʀ, ni wajēmāriʀ.
- Wolþuþewaz, not ill-famed .
Usage notes
- This word is only attested once, in what is likely a poetic line, where it is negated. Together with the negation it literally means "not ill-famed", but this should be understood as a litotes meaning "well-renowned", "of infallible repute".
Further reading