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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse blóð, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.
Pronunciation
Noun
blóð n (genitive singular blóðs, uncountable)
- blood
Declension
Synonyms
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse blóð, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.
Pronunciation
Noun
blóð n (genitive singular blóðs, no plural)
- blood
- offspring, blood relation
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
terms derived from "blóð"
- blóðappelsína
- blóðarfi
- blóðbað
- blóðband
- blóðbanki
- blóðbarg
- blóðbjörg
- blóðbogi (gush or jet of blood)
- blóðbolli (syn. blótbolli)
- blóðdrefjar (scattering of blood)
- blóðdrekkur (one who drinks blood)
- blóðdrif (flowing of blood)
- blóðdropi (a drop of blood)
- blóðdrykkja (drinking of blood)
- blóðeik
- blóðeisa
- blóðeitrun
- blóðfall (hemorrhage)
- blóðfallssótt (the bloody flux, dysentery)
- blóðfjöður
- blóðflaga
- blóðflekkur (fleck or stain of blood)
- blóðflokkur
- blóðfors (gush of blood)
- blóðfórn
- blóðfullur m, blóðfull f, blóðfullt n (full of blood)
- blóðga (to make bloody, to smear with blood)
- blóðgast (to become bloody)
- blóðgagl
- blóðgangur
- blóðgjafi
- blóðgjöf
- blóðgresi
- blóðgun
- blóðhefnd
- blóðheitur m, blóðheit f, blóðheitt n
- blóðhimna
- blóðhiti
- blóðhlaup
- blóðhlaupinn m, blóðhlaupin f, blóðhlaupið n
- blóðhorn
- blóðhósti
- blóðhundur
- blóði
- blóðís
- blóðjárna
- blóðkýll (blood bag, fig. bloodsucker)
- blóðkollur
- blóðkoppur
- blóðkorn
- blóðkreppa
- blóðkreppusótt
- blóðlanga
- blóðlát (loss of blood)
- blóðlát (blood-letting, bleeding)
- blóðlátinn ( bled)
- blóðlatur
- blóðlaus (bloodless)
- blóðleysi
- blóðlifur (clotted blood)
- blóðlilja
- blóðlitaður
- blóðlítill
- blóðlýsa
- blóðlækur (a stream of blood)
- blóðmaðkur (a maggot bred in putrefying blood)
- blóðmarka
- blóðmiga
- blóðmura
- blóðmör
- blómör upp úr súru
- blóðmörskeppur
- það munar ekki um blóðmörskepp í sláturtíðinni
- blóðnál
- blóðnæli
- blóðnasir
- blóðnætur f pl ("blood-nights" in the proverb "blóðnætur eru hverjum bráðastar" referring to the fierce desire to revenge a homicide newly committed)
- blóðormur
- blóðrannsókn
- blóðrás
- manninum mæddi blóðrás
- blóðrauði
- blóðrauður (blood-red)
- blóðrás (hemorrhage)
- blóðrefill (point of a sword)
- blóðregn
- blóðreiður (very wrathful)
- blóðreitur m (a field of blood)
- blóðrekinn (stained with blood)
- blóðríkur
- blóðrisa (blár og blóðrisa meaning "bruised and bloody")
- blóðrjóður
- blóðroðna
- blóðrót
- blóðsegi/blóðsigi (clot of blood)
- blóðseiði
- blóðsifjar
- blóðsigi
- blóðsíld
- blóðsjúkur (dysenteric)
- blóðslitur (colour of blood)
- blóðskítsmát
- blóðskuld
- blóðskömm
- blóðsnöggur
- blóðsóley
- blóðsótt (dysentery)
- blóðsprengur
- blóðspýja (spitting of blood)
- blóðspýtingur
- blóðsteinbrjótur
- blóðsteinn
- blóðstemma
- blóðstemmusteinn
- blóðstjarna (the bloody star, Venus)
- blóðstokkinn (bespattered with blood)
- blóðstorkinn (stiff with gore, gory)
- blóðstraumur (stream of blood)
- blóðsuga
- blóðsúthelling f (shedding of blood)
- blóðsykur
- blóðsökk
- blóðtaka
- blóðtala
- blóðtappi
- blóðtengdir
- blóðtjörn (pool of blood)
- blóðughadda
- blóðugur (bloody)
- blóðuxi
- blóðvalur
- blóðvaka f (drawing of blood, compare vekja blóð)
- blóðvatn
- blóðvita
- blóðvökvi
- blóðvöllur
- blóðvöndur
- blóðþyrstur
- blóðæð
- blóðæsar
- blóðær f (a ewe fit for slaughter)
- blóðörn m (blood-eagle)
- rista einhvern blóðörn
- rista blóðörn á baki (a cruel method of putting captured enemies to death in the heathen times)
- blóðöx ("bloody axe" a person's nickname)
- lambsblóð
- letiblóð
- holblóð (blood from the inwards)
phrases derived from "blóð"
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *blōþą (“blood”). Cognate with Old English blōd, Old Frisian blōd, Old Saxon blōd, Old Dutch bluot, Old High German bluot, Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbloːð/
Noun
blóð n (genitive blóðs)
- blood
- Vǫluspá, verse 9, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
- or brimi bloðgu / ok or bláin leggju.
- from Brimir's blood / and from Blain's limbs.
- (figuratively) offspring
- Stjórn 16, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 47:
- þeir sem hans blóð ok afkuemi uaru drucknuðu ok fyrirforuz i Noa floði.
- those of his offspring and progeny drowned and died in Noah's flood.
Declension
Declension of blóð (strong a-stem, singular only)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- blóð in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- blóð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.