vágr

vágr
(-s, -ar), m.
1) wave, sea;
2) creek, bay;
3) matter from a sore.
* * *
m. [no doubt different from the preceding word, prob. qs. vargr, absorbing var into vá: O. H. G. warag; mod. H. G. ware, wærch, Schmeller; Dan. voer]:—matter, from a sore; vella vági ok hryfi, Stj. 344; freyddi ór upp blóð ok vágr, Ísl. ii. 218; vágs litr, 677. 22.
COMPDS: vágfall, vágnagli.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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