[8] atti (m.) ‘inciter’: A hap. leg. Hellquist (1891, 167) explains the word as a derivative of the weak verb etja ‘incite, egg on’ (p. p. attr), while Falk (1914b, 47) believes that it was transferred to a sword from the m. pers. n. Atti.
References
- Bibliography
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1914b. Altnordische Waffenkunde. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter, II. Hist.-filos. kl. 1914, 6. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Hellquist, Elof. 1891. ‘Bidrag till läran om den nordiska nominalbildningen’. ANF 7, 1-62, 142-74.