--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "kunphuzil" <kunphuzil@...>
wrote:

> This has made me realize a good strategy: if I cannot find a word

in

> the dictionary, I can attempt to reverse lookup words by unapplying
> the umlauts.

That´s the trick! Zoega´s dictionary actually has a "List of
Irregular Forms" in the back which includes some regular forms too
that might be unexpected for learmers [
http://norse.ulver.com/ondict/zoega/index.html ]. There is also an
Old Norse Morphological Analyzer online [ http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/%
7Ecurban/ ], based on Zoega--but it´s still in development and
therefore a bit confusing to use and not always reliable.

More convenient for the moment is this dictionary of Modern
Icelandic [ http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-
bin/IcelOnline/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?id=IcelOnline.IEOrd ], which is
good at recognising inflected forms. Typing 'vexti' leads you to
the entry for 'vöxtur', the modern form of 'vöxtr'. Another
example, 'hætti' produces a few possibilities, including (dat.sg.
of) the u-stem noun 'háttur' = Old Norse 'háttr' "way, mode, manner,
sort, metre, etc."

LN