TRANI

m. crane (bird).

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a, m.; this is the oldest form and gender, whence later, trana, u, f.; the masc. form occurs in Höfuðl. 10 (tranar); tranann, acc., Fms. x. 50, 353, 354; trananum, 304; traninn, 347, 350, Ó.T. 52; tranann, 32; but Tronona, trönu, 55, ll. 19, 23; tranann, trana, 64, l. c. (in an older vellum): in the verse of Hallfred (Fs. 209) Trönu should be Trana; cp. also Fagrsk. ch. 76, 80; [A. S. crân; Dan. trane]:—a crane, Fas. iii. 359, Art. 86, Str. 67, Edda (Gl.): metaph. as the name of a ship, Fms.: of a sword, Edda (Gl.)

2. a snout = rani, Fms. iv. 58 (but rani, Fb. ii. 27, l. c.)