- stefja
- (að), v.1) to prevent (s. manntjón);2) s. á e-n, to address one.* * *að, to prevent; stefja manntjón, Fms. x. 418.II. to address with a stave or stanza; þá stefjaði trollkona á hann ok spurði hverr þar fór (then follows the ditty), Edda 95.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.