vísa

vísa (third person singular past indicative vísti, third person plural past indicative víst, supine víst)

1. to show, to exhibit
2. to show, to point at

   nálin vísti teim leið - the compass needle showed them the direction.

3. to show, to instruct

   eg vísti honum, hvussu hann skuldi gera - I showed him how to do it.

4. to show, to prove

   Hesi tølini vísa, hvussu støðan er - These figures show what things are like.

5. visa frá sær - to decline, to turn down
6. visa seg -to seem

• sýna

• Rhymes: -iːsa

From Old Norse vísa, cognate with Swedish visa.

vísa f (genitive singular vísu, nominative plural vísur)

1. (poetry) verse

• vögguvísa

vísa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vísaði, supine vísað)

1. to show a person to a place [with dative]

• “vísa” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

vísa f

1. (rare) alternative spelling of visa (“verse”)

From Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

vísa

1. to show, point out, indicate

From Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ.

vísa f (genitive vísu)

1. (poetry) verse, strophe, stanza
   • Hákonarbók, chapter 38

     Nu ef maðr yrker um mann þat er monnom virðiz til niðs eða haðungar fiorðung viso eða lengra. […]

     Now if someone composes a quarter of a stanza or more about another, and it is considered defamation or mockery by men, […]

• In traditional Norse poetry a stanza (vísa) was subdivided into two half-stanzas (helmingar), in turn divided into two couplets (fjórðungar) or long lines.

• lausavísa (“an extemporaneous stanza”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vísa

1. inflection of víss:
   1. positive degree strong feminine accusative singular
   2. positive degree strong masculine accusative plural
   3. positive degree weak masculine oblique singular
   4. positive degree weak feminine nominative singular
   5. positive degree weak neuter singular

vísa

1. inflection of vísi:
   1. indefinite oblique singular
   2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural
2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of vísir

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vísa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 500; also available at the Internet Archive