tafn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tabną, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *deh₂p-. Cognate with Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast”), Latin daps (“sacrificial feast”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “expenditure”), δάπτω (dáptō, “I devour”).

Noun

tafn n

  1. sacrifice
  2. (poetic) bloody prey

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