eggja

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse eggja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛt͡ʃːa/
    Rhymes: -ɛt͡ʃːa
    Homophone: eggjað

Verb

eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)

  1. to sharpen
  2. to incite

Conjugation


Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛcːa/
    Rhymes: -ɛcːa
    Homophone: Eggja

Verb

eggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eggjaði, supine eggjað)

  1. to incite or egg on

Conjugation

Noun

eggja n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Noun

eggja f

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Old Norse

Etymology

From egg f (edge), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (edge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp).

Verb

eggja

  1. (ditransitive, with accusative and genitive) to incite, egg on to do
    eggja einhvern (acc.) einhvers (gen.)
    to egg someone on to do something

Conjugation

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Descendants

References

eggja in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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