hríð

From Old Norse hríð.

• IPA^(key): /r̥iːð/

  Rhymes: -iːð

hríð f (genitive singular hríðar, nominative plural hríðir or (all senses except "bout of pain") hríðar)

1. (weather event)
   1. storm, especially a snowstorm
   2. snowfall
   3. blizzard

   grenjandi hríð ― a screaming blizzard

   stórhríð ― a whiteout

   Hríðinni létti upp.

   The blizzard let up.

   1. bad weather
   2. very (windy and) rainy weather
2. (conflict)
   1. (archaic, obsolete) an (attempted) attack
   2. fight, conflict

      gera (harða) hríð að e-m ― attack smn (hard)

3. (time) go, round, time, lot, batch (defined period of time)

   nokkra/langa/litla/skamma hríð ― for some/a long/little/short time

   um hríð ― (for) a while

   nú um hríð ― for a short while

   í einni hríð ― in one go

   í hríðinni ― in one go

4. stomach of a (Greenland) shark

   Synonyms: hríða, hriða

5. an intensifier in compounds

   hríðversna ― get very bad

   hríðhorast ― become gaunt

   hríðskjálfa ― tremble terribly

   hríðvaxandi ― rapidly growing

   hríðdraga fisk ― pull in one fish after the other

6. (in the plural with -ir) short bout of pain, especially labour pains

   fæðingarhríðir ― labor pains

• hríða (“shark stomach”), hriða (regional)
• hríða (“to snow”)
• hríðast (“quarrel”)
• hríðum (“now and then”)

• hrís

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “hríð”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “hríð” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Proto-Germanic *hrīþō (“sudden attack; seizure; fit; storm”).

Compare Old English hriþ (“storm, tempest”).

hríð f

1. storm, snowstorm