einn card numb and pron
1.
one; e skal við e eiga, one shall fight against one; e ok e, one by one, one at a time, singly;
2.
as ord numb =inn fyrsti (Urð hétu eina, aðra Verðandi, Skuld ina þriðju) ;
3.
the same, one and the same (váru sveinarnir up f�ddir báðir í einu þorpi); allt í eina leið, all in one way; e ok, the same as (í einu herbergi ok hinn); allr e, the very same, quite the same (þat er allt eitt ok himinn) ; allt at einu, nevertheless, for all that (þó at þú þjónaðir illum, þó var hann allt at einu þinn herra) ;
4.
indef one, a certain (e vetr, e dag, eitt kveld) ; e vinr �óris, a certain friend of Th; before numbers, about, some; einar fimm þúsundir, some five thousand; einir aðrir, some others (einir tóku dúka ok aðrir rekkjublæjur); e ok ýmiss, one and another (einar ok ýmissar þjóðir) ;
5.
after a negation, any; né eitt, not anything;
6.
gen pl 'einna' used in an intensive sense; einna manna bezt, best of all (single) men; einna verst, by far the worst; einna sízt, by far the least, least of all; engi er einna hvatastr, no man is superior to all others;
7.
alone (Guðrún skyldi ein ráða fyrir fé þeirra) ; láta konu eina, to desert or divorce one's wife; with gen, hann varð e sinna manna, he was separated from his men; if put after the noun 'einn' generally denotes only, but; segja þetta prett einn, to call this a mere trick; vín eitt, wine only; var þat (handklæði) raufar einar, all in holes, mere tatters; fáir einir, only a few; e sér or sér e, quite by oneself, alone (hann var e sér) ; e saman, e samt, quite alone ; kona eigi ein saman, not alone, with child; at eins, only, but ; eigi at eins, not only; því at eins, only in that case; údauðr at eins, merely not dead, all but dead, barely alive; at einu =at eins
