maður er manns gaman
/ˈmaːðʏr ɛ(ː)r ˈmanːs ˈkaːman/
İZLANDACA → TR
Tanım
•people enjoy the company of other people
Etimoloji
Literally, “person is person’s joy”. (Antonymic is the sentiment of the Latin expression homō hominī lupus (“man is a wolf to man”).) Compare Norwegian Nynorsk mann er manns gaman. The proverb is from the forty-seventh verse of the Hávamál, one of the books of the Poetic Edda. the 47th verse of the Hávamál * Hávamál verse 47 in Old Norse *: Ungr var ek forðum *: fór ek einn saman *: þá varð ek…