# blóð
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse blóð, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plɔuːw/
    Rhymes: -ɔuːw

### Noun

blóð n (genitive singular blóðs, uncountable)
* blood

#### Synonyms

* (poetic): benjardøgg f

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse blóð, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plouːð/
    Rhymes: -ouːð

### Noun

blóð n (genitive singular blóðs, no plural)
* blood
    Synonym: (archaic) dreyri
* offspring, blood relation

#### Derived terms

* blóðappelsína
* blóðarfi
* blóðbað
* blóðband
* blóðbanki
* blóðbarg
* blóðbjörg
* blóðbogi (“gush or jet of blood”)
* blóðbolli (synonym blótbolli)
* blóðdrefjar (“scattering of blood”)
* blóðdrekkur (“one who drinks blood”)
* blóðdrif (“flowing of blood”)
* blóðdropi (“a drop of blood”)
* blóðdrykkja (“drinking of blood”)
* blóðeik
* blóðeisa
* blóðeitrun
* blóðfall (“hemorrhage”)
* blóðfallssótt (“the bloody flux, dysentery”)
* blóðfjöður
* blóðflaga
* blóðflekkur (“fleck or stain of blood”)
* blóðflokkur
* blóðfors (“gush of blood”)
* blóðfórn
* blóðfullur (“full of blood”)
* blóðga (“to make bloody, to smear with blood”)
* blóðgast (“to become bloody”)
* blóðgagl
* blóðgangur
* blóðgjafi
* blóðgjöf
* blóðgresi
* blóðgun
* blóðhefnd
* blóðheitur
* blóðhimna
* blóðhiti
* blóðhlaup
* blóðhlaupinn
* blóðhorn
* blóðhósti
* blóðhundur
* blóði
* blóðís
* blóðjárna
* blóðkýll (“blood bag; (figuratively) bloodsucker”)
* blóðkollur
* blóðkoppur
* blóðkorn
* blóðkreppa
* blóðkreppusótt
* blóðlanga
* blóðlát (“loss of blood”)
* blóðlát (“blood-letting, bleeding”)
* blóðlátinn (“[that which has been] bled”)
* blóðlatur
* blóðlaus (“bloodless”)
* blóðleysi
* blóðlifur (“clotted blood”)
* blóðlilja
* blóðlitaður
* blóðlítill
* blóðlýsa
* blóðlækur (“a stream of blood”)
* blóðmaðkur (“a maggot bred in putrefying blood”)
* blóðmarka
* blóðmiga
* blóðmura
* blóðmör
    blómör upp úr súru
* blóðmörskeppur
    það munar ekki um blóðmörskepp í sláturtíðinni
* blóðnál
* blóðnæli
* blóðnasir
* blóðnætur (“blood-nights”) (in the proverb blóðnætur eru hverjum bráðastar, referring to the fierce desire to avenge a homicide newly committed)
* blóðormur
* blóðrannsókn
* blóðrás
    manninum mæddi blóðrás
* blóðrauði
* blóðrauður (“blood-red”)
* blóðrás (“hemorrhage”)
* blóðrefill (“point of a sword”)
* blóðregn
* blóðreiður (“very wrathful”)
* blóðreitur (“a field of blood”)
* blóðrekinn (“stained with blood”)
* blóðríkur
* blóðrisa, in blár og blóðrisa (“bruised and bloody”)
* blóðrjóður
* blóðroðna
* blóðrót
* blóðsegi/blóðsigi (“clot of blood”)
* blóðseiði
* blóðsifjar
* blóðsigi
* blóðsíld
* blóðsjúkur (“dysenteric”)
* blóðslitur (“colour of blood”)
* blóðskítsmát
* blóðskuld
* blóðskömm
* blóðsnöggur
* blóðsóley
* blóðsótt (“dysentery”)
* blóðsprengur
* blóðspýja (“spitting of blood”)
* blóðspýtingur
* blóðsteinbrjótur
* blóðsteinn
* blóðstemma
* blóðstemmusteinn
* blóðstjarna (“the bloody star, Venus”)
* blóðstokkinn (“bespattered with blood”)
* blóðstorkinn (“stiff with gore, gory”)
* blóðstraumur (“stream of blood”)
* blóðsuga
* blóðsúthelling (“shedding of blood”)
* blóðsykur
* blóðsökk
* blóðtaka
* blóðtala
* blóðtappi
* blóðtengdir
* blóðtjörn (“pool of blood”)
* blóðughadda
* blóðugur (“bloody”)
* blóðuxi
* blóðvalur
* blóðvaka (“drawing of blood”); compare vekja blóð
* blóðvatn
* blóðvita
* blóðvökvi
* blóðvöllur
* blóðvöndur
* blóðþyrstur
* blóðæð
* blóðæsar
* blóðær (“a ewe fit for slaughter”)
* blóðörn (“blood-eagle”)
    rista einhvern blóðörn
    rista blóðörn á baki (a cruel method of putting captured enemies to death in the heathen times)
* blóðöx (“"bloody axe" a person's nickname”)
* lambsblóð
* letiblóð
* holblóð (“blood from the inwards”)
* blanda blóði saman (“to enter into a foster-brothership by mixing blood together”)
* blóðga sig
* blóðsjá eftir einhverju
* ganga blóði (“to have a hemorrhage or dysentery”)
* gefa blóð
* gera í blóðið sitt
* í líf og blóði
* mér er blóðilla við þetta
* nema blóð, taka blóð (“to bleed one”)
* rann honum mjög blóð m, rann henni mjög blóð f, rann því mjög blóð n (“he/she/it lost much blood”)
* vekja e-m blóð (“to draw the blood of one”)
* vekja sér blóð
* það er meira blóð í kúnni

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blōþą (“blood”). Cognate with Old English blōd, Old Frisian blōd, Old Saxon blōd, Old Dutch bluot, Old High German bluot, Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈbloːð/

### Noun

blóð n (genitive blóðs)
* blood
** Vǫluspá, verse 9, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
    […] or brimi bloðgu / ok or bláin leggju.
    […] from Brimir's blood / and from Blain's limbs.
* (figuratively) offspring
** Stjórn 16, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 47:
    […] þeir sem hans blóð ok afkuemi uaru drucknuðu ok fyrirforuz i Noa floði.
    […] those of his offspring and progeny drowned and died in Noah's flood.

#### Derived terms

* blanda blóði saman (“to mix blood together”)
* blóðabrúðgumi (“'bloody husband'”)
* blóðband (“bandage to stop bleeding”)
* blóðbogi (“gush of blood”)
* blóðdrefjar (“scattering of blood”)
* blóðdrekkr (“blood-drinker”)
* blóðdrif (“flowing of blood”)
* blóðdropi (“blood-drop”)
* blóðdrykkja (“drink of blood”)
* blóðdrǫg (“streak of blood”)
* blóðfall, blóðfallssótt (“dysentery”)
* blóðflekkr (“fleck of blood”)
* blóðfors (“gush of blood”)
* blóðfullr (“full of blood”)
* blóðga (“to make bloody”)
* blóðkýll (“leech”)
* blóðlauss (“bloodless”)
* blóðlifr (“clotted blood”)
* blóðligr (“bloody”)
* blóðlitr (“colour of blood”)
* blóðlát (“loss of blood, bleeding”)
* blóðlátinn (“that has been bled”)
* blóðlækr (“stream of blood”)
* blóðmaðkr (“maggot bred in putrefying blood”)
* blóðnætr (“'blood-nights'”)
* blóðormr (“sword”)
* blóðrauðr (“blood-red”)
* blóðrefill (“point of a sword”)
* blóðreitr (“field of blood”)
* blóðreiðr (“very wrathful”)
* blóðrekinn (“stained with blood”)
* blóðrisa (“bruised and bloody”)
* blóðrás (“hemorrhage”)
* blóðsakr (“field of blood”)
* blóðsegi, blóðsigi (“clot of blood”)
* blóðsjúkr (“dysenteric”)
* blóðskuld (“blood-guilt”)
* blóðslitr (“colour of blood”)
* blóðspeningar (“price of blood”)
* blóðspýga (“spitting of blood”)
* blóðsteigr (“field of blood”)
* blóðstjarna (“Venus”)
* blóðstokkinn (“bespattered with blood”)
* blóðstraumr (“stream of blood”)
* blóðsveiti (“blood-sweat”)
* blóðsótt (“dysentery”)
* blóðsúthelling (“shedding of blood”)
* blóðtjǫrn (“pool of blood”)
* blóðvaka (“drawing of blood”)
* blóðvarmr (“warm-blooded”)
* blóðvarta (“part of a sword”)
* blóðær (“ewe fit for slaughter”)
* blóðǫrn (“'blood-eagle'”)
* dauðablóð (“lifeblood, gore”)
* ganga blóði (“to have a hemorrhage”)
* hjartblóð (“heart-blood”)

#### Related terms

* blóði (“brother”)
* blóðugr (“bloody”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: blóð
* Faroese: blóð
* Norwegian: blod
* Old Swedish: blōþ, blodh
** Swedish: blod
* Old Danish: bloth
** Danish: blod

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “blóð”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 69
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “blóð”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 59; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
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