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[7] þopti (m.) ‘rowing-mate’: I.e. ‘(rowing) bench-mate’ (from þopta f. ‘rowing bench’). Snorri explains the word as follows (Skm, SnE 1998, I, 107): Þopti er *hálfrýmis félagi ‘Þopti is one who shares the same rowing bench’.