[4] skotblað (n.) ‘shoot-blade’: A hap. leg. According to CVC, skotblað is ‘the sheath of an ear of corn before it opens’. The sense of this word can be reconstructed from New Norw. skotblad, which is øvste blad på eit framskytande aks, i. e. ‘the uppermost leaf [i.e. husk] on an ear of corn before it opens’ (so Heggstad et al. 2008: skotblad; LP: skotblað).
References
- Bibliography
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.