IÐR

n. pl. bowels, entrails.

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n. pl.; [this word cannot be derived from inn (ð = nn), for even the Gothic idreiga and idreigon have the d; O. H. G. in-adiri; the word is prob., as suggested by Grimm, akin to Germ. ader, Icel. æðr (a vein)]:—the bowels, entrails (see innyfli), Grág. ii. 371, Bs. i. 346, Orkn. 458, Landn. 217, Ld. 222, Gullþ. 23, Fbr. 208, Fms. iii. 77, viii. 326; iðr ok innyfli, Stj. 280, Post. 238.

II. metaph., freq. in eccl. usage like σπλάγχνα; miskunar-iðr, bowels of mercy, N. T.; skaka ok skelfa iðr ok alvöru síns föður, Stj. 132. iðra-kveisa, u, f., iðra-verkr, m., North. E. and Scot. ‘belly-work,’ a pain in the bowels, 655 xii. 3, Al. 23, Stj. 436.