ÞRJÓTA

ÞRJÓTA
(þrýt; þraut, þrutum; þrotinn), v. impers.;
1) þrýtr e-t (acc.) it fails, comes to an end; en er veizluna þrýtr, when it came to the end of the banquet; þar til er þraut dalinn, till the dale ended (among the hills); þar til er þraut sker öll, till there was an end of all the skerries; seint þrýtr þann, er verr hefir, the man with a bad case has a hundred excuses;
2) with acc. of person and thing (e-n þrýtr e-t); en er hann (acc.) þraut orendit, when breath failed him; Hrapp þraut vistir í hafi, H. ran short of food at sea;
3) to become exhausted, fail; mara þraut óra, our steeds were exhausted.
* * *
pres. þrýtr; pret. þraut; subj. þryti; part. þrotinn: the verb being impersonal, forms as þrauzt or pl. þrutu hardly occur: [A. S. â-þreôtan]:—to fail one, come to an end, impers. with acc. of the person and thing, e-n þrýtr e-t, it fails one in a thing, one comes to an end of it; en er veizluna þrýtr, when it came to the end of the banquet, Ld. 16; er nú vænast at þrjóti okkra samvistu, Fær. 174; þar til er þraut dalinn, to the end of the dale, Nj. 35; inn á fjörðinn, þar til er þraut sker öll (acc.), till there was an end of all the skerries, Landn. 57; en er hann þraut eyrendit, when the breath failed him, Edda 32: the saying, seint þrýtr þann er verr hefir, the man with a bad case has a hundred excuses, Fms. viii. 412; þá er í ráði at rögn (acc.) um þrjóti, Hdl. 41; ey eða ei, þat er aldregi þrýir, Skálda.
2. to want, lack, be short of a thing, fail in it; Hrapp þraut vistir í hafi, Nj. 128; íllt er þat ef föður minn þrýtr drengskapinn, Lv. 11; þá er menn Magnúss konungs þraut grjót ok skotvápn, Fms. viii. 139; at eigi þrjóti oss at vætta miskunnar af Guði, that we do not fail, Hom. 97; ef hinn þrýtr er við tekr, Grág. i. 227; þat hann viðr er þrjóta mun flesta menn þótt fé eigi, Ad. 21; ef hann þrýtr at veraldar auðæfum, Greg. 30.
3. as a law term, to become a pauper; annat-tveggja, at hann andisk eða þrýtr hann (acc.) at fé, þá …, Grág. i. 274; ef þess er ván at þau þrjóti þau misseri, 241.
II. part. at an end, past, gone; ok er þrotin ván þótti þess at …, past hope, forlorn, Eg. 719, Fms. vi. 152, Ó. T. 8; get ek at þrotin sé þín en mesta gæfa, Nj. 182; þrotinn at drykk, short of drink, Fms. ix. 41; en er allir voru þrotnir á at biðja hann til, were exhausted in begging him, Bs. i. 128; Trojumenn sá sik þrotna at vega sigr á Grikkjum, Bret.; hestrinn var þrotinn, quite exhausted, Fms. vi. 211; ok vóru þá þrotnir yxninir, Eb. 176.
2. bankrupt; ef hinn er þrotinn er fram færir úmagann, Grág. (Kb.) ii. 10.

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