beita

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeiːta/

  Rhymes: -eiːta

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

1. (transitive, governs the accusative, fishing) to bait a fishing line

   Synonym: egna

2. (transitive, governs the dative, fishing) to use as bait on a fishhook

   Að beita maðki.

   To use a worm as bait.

3. (transitive, governs the dative) to put to pasture, to put out to graze, to have animals feed on the land

   Synonym: láta á beit

   Að beita kindum.

   To put sheep out to graze.

4. (transitive, governs the dative) to employ, to use, to handle a tool or method

   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): /²bæɪtɑ/ (example of pronunciation)

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.

Causative of bíta.

beita f (genitive beitu)

1. (fishing) a bait

• ǫngull

• beita in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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

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

In the sense of hunting, the dogs or hawks are in the dative, and the foe they are set loose on in the accusative case.

• beita in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• beita in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

beita

1. genitive singular of beit