vaka

vaka
sit up
* * *
I)
(vaki, vakta, vakat), v.
1) to be awake, to keep awake (hann hefir vakat í alla nótt); v. yfir e-u, to watch during the night (v. yfir fé sínu);
2) to awake, = vakna (hann bað hann v. skjott).
II)
(gen. pl. vakna), f.
1) waking halda vöku sinni, to keep oneself awake;
2) vigil (fara til hins heilaga Ólafs til vöku);
3) eve of saint’s day.
* * *
u, f., pl. vökur, gen. pl. vakna, Fms. ix. 29, 218: the being awake, waking, í vöku og svefni, awake and asleep; haldi hverr vöku sinni er má, to keep oneself awake, Ld. 152; halda vöku fyrir e-m, to keep a person awake; í föstum ok vökum, 623. 18; halda vöku yfir hjörð sinni, Hom. 37; hafa vökur miklar ok áhyggjur, sleepless nights, Fms. x. 146; and-vaka, sleeplessness.
2. in Icel. during the winter, the evening (when one works by lamp-light) is called vaka [Engl. wake]; kveði vöku einni á (during one evening) aðrir kvæðin betr, a ditty; kvöld-vaka, an evening; næstu vikuna fyrir Jólin eru vökur hafðar lengstar á Íslandi ok vakan miðuð við sjö-stjörnuna til sveita, er svo vakað þangað til stjarnan er komin í nónstað eða miðaptan, Ísl. ii. 568: even evening entertainments are called vaka, wakes, hence viki-vakar, q. v.
3. a vigil, eve of a saint’s day, eccl.; skyldu þeir fara til hins heilaga Ólafs konungs til vöku, Fms. vii. 309; Jóns-vaka, St. Johns-wake, St. John’s Eve, Norse Jons-ok.
COMPDS: vaknabúð, vaknaskeið, vökulið, vökumaðr, vökunótt, vökuskarfr.
II. = vök, an opening in ice, Sturl. ii. 248; brunn-vaka, q. v.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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