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Old Norse
Etymology
of- (“too much, excessively”) + ljóss (“clear”); literally "too clear", an ironic designation.
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Guðrún Nordal, Tools of Literacy, page 205, quotes a relatively simple example: " may designate] hár 'hair,' whose homophone Hár denotes Òðinn."
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Adjective
ofljóst
- (of a phrase in a poem) being a kenning for something which is synonymous or homophonous with something else which is homophonous or synonymous with the intended morpheme, word, or phrase
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “ofljóst”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press