- fœða
- I)(-dda, -ddr), v.1) to feed, give food to;2) to rear, bring up (= fœða upp);3) to give birth to (fœddi Bergljót sveinbarn);4) refl., fœðast, to feed, live on a thing (f. við e-t); to be born; to be brought up (= f. upp).II)f. food (= fœzla).
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.