[6] dusill (m.) ‘glimmering one’: A hap. leg., perhaps derived from the weak verb dúsa ‘doze’ and hence most likely denoting a hidden, glimmering or small fire. Cf. CVC: drysil-, dusil- a term of contempt, ‘paltry’, dusil-menni n. ‘a petty man’ and the weak verb dusla ‘bustle’ (see also AEW: dusill; ÍO: dusi, dusill and Note to Þjóð Yt 2/7I).
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- ÍO = Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon. 1989. Íslensk orðsifjabók. Reykjavík: Orðabók Háskólans.
- Internal references
- Edith Marold (ed.) 2012, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Ynglingatal 2’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 10.