skiptingr

m.

1) changeling;

2) idiot (inn mesti s. ok afglapi).

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m. a changeling (Germ. wechselbalg), an idiot, believed to have been substituted for the right child by fairies, Sks. 296, Fms. xi. 56, 445, Fas. ii. 341, Mar., Stj. 475; for the popular superstition see Maurer’s Volksagen.

2. gramm. = semi-vocalis, the letters i and u, Skálda 170.