afburðr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From af- +‎ burðr (“carriage, bearing”), the latter from Proto-Germanic *burþiz f, from *beraną (“to bear”). === Noun === afburðr m (genitive afburðar, plural afburðir) superiority ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== afburðar afburðarmaðr m (“man of mark”) afburðarsamr (“prone to distinguish oneself”) afburðarskip n (“first-rate ship”) ==== Related terms ==== atburðr framburðr === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “afburðr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2; also available at the Internet Archive