- GÖTVA
- (að), v. to bury.* * *að, [akin to gata, a way dug or bored through; the characteristic v is preserved in Goth. gatvo = platea]:—to dig, bury; götvaðr (part.), buried (in a cairn), Ísl. ii. 280; götva þeir hann þar í grjótinu, they cast stones over him, Gísl. 72, Gkv. 18: in mod. usage, upp-götva, to discover, (freq.)
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.