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annarr önnur, annat a

1. indef pron, ord numb;
2. one of the two, the one (of two ); Egill þessi hefir aðra hönd (only one hand) ok er kaliaðr einhendr; á aðra hönd, on the one side ; a a one the other (hét a Sörli, en a þorkell) ;
3. second; f annat sinn for the second time; høggr hann þegar annat (viz högg), a second blow;
4. the next following; á öðru hausti, the next autumn ; annat sumar eptir; fig, next in value or rank; annat mest hof í Noregi, the next greatest temple; fjölmennast þing annat eptir brennu Njáls, the fullest assembly next to that after the burning of N;
5. some other (hón lék á gólfinu við aðrar meyjar) ; �orarinn ok tíu menn aðrir, and ten men besides; hann var örvari af fé en nokkurr a, than anybody else;
6. other, different; öl er a maðr, ale (a drunken man) is another man, is not the same man; þau höfdu annan átrúnað, a different religion;
7. in various combinations ; a slikr, such another, another of the same sort; gekk a til at öðrum (one after another) at biðja hann ; hverja nótt aðra sem aðra, every night in turn; annat var orð Finns harðara en annat, each word of Finn was harder than another; aðrir aðrir, some others; einir ok aðrir, various; ymsir ok aðrir, now one, now another (nefna upp ymsa ok aðra) ; hvárr (or hverr ) annan, each other, one another (hétu hvárir öðrum atförum); við þau tíðindi urðu allir giaðir ok sagði hverr öðrum, one told the news to another, -man to man

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