beita

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeiːta/

  Rhymes: -eiːta

From Old Norse beita, from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną.

beita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative beitti, supine beitt)

1. (fishing) to bait a fishing line [with accusative]

   Synonym: egna

2. (fishing) to use as bait on a fishhook [with dative]

   Að beita maðki.

   To use a worm as bait.

3. to put to pasture, to put out to graze, to have animals feed on the land [with dative]

   Synonym: láta á beit

   Að beita kindum.

   To put sheep out to graze.

4. to employ, to use, to handle a tool or method [with dative]

   Synonym: nota

5. (nautical) to sail by beating (sail into the wind at an angle)

beita f (genitive singular beitu, nominative plural beitur)

1. bait

   Synonym: agn

• beitene (of noun)
• beitet (of verb)

beita n pl

1. definite plural of beite

beita

1. simple past of beite
2. past participle of beite

• beite

From Old Norse beita (“make bite”).

• IPA^(key): /²bɛɪːta/

beita (present tense beitar/beiter, past tense beita/beitte, past participle beita/beitt, passive infinitive beitast, present participle beitande, imperative beita/beit)

1. graze (eat grass from a pasture)

   Om sumaren er dyra ute og beiter.

   The animals are outdoors and grazing during the summer.

beita n pl

1. definite plural of beite

• “beita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *baitijaną. Causative of bíta.

beita (singular past indicative beitti, plural past indicative beittu, past participle beittr)

1. (intransitive) to graze
2. (transitive) to allow, let, make bite
   1. to feed (livestock) [with dative]
   2. to attack with a cutting instrument; to use as a weapon [with dative]
3. (by extension, nautical) to steer or sail near the wind; to cruise
4. (hunting) to hunt [with accusative ‘someone/something’ and dative ‘with dogs or hawks’]
5. to yoke to (of horse or cattle)

beita f (genitive beitu)

1. (fishing) a bait

   Synonym: agn

beita

1. indefinite genitive plural of beit
2. indefinite genitive plural of beit
3. indefinite genitive plural of beiti

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “beita”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 56
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beita1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beita2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

beita

1. genitive singular of beit

beita

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