[8] eiðu ‘mother’: An uncommon noun, largely poetic; Skm (SnE 1998, I, 108) explains Eiða heitir móðir ‘Eiða is a name for mother’. Eiða is cognate with Goth. aiþei and MHG eide, both meaning ‘mother’, OIr. aite ‘father’ (AEW: eiða).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=112> (accessed 3 June 2024)