- HÆTA
- (hœta), t, [hót; Uif. hwôtian = ἐπιτιμαν; early Dan. höde]:—to threaten, with dat. of the person and thing; h. e-m e-u, Ls. 62, Fms. vii. 220, ix. 18, x. 316, Fs. 35, 165, Karl. 397, 437, Þiðr. 225, Al. 47, Ölk. 35; see hóta.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.