ekki

See also: ikke, ikkje, and ikki

English

Noun

ekki (uncountable)

  1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.

Anagrams


Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

  1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

Declension of ekki (singular only)
m1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative ekki ekkin
accusative ekka ekkan
dative ekka ekkanum
genitive ekka ekkans

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ
  • (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki (nothing), from eitt (neuter of einn (one)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

  1. not
    Ég er ekki Kira!
    I'm not Kira!
    Ég fer ekki í dag vegna þess að ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.
    I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.
  2. don't
    Ekki fara!
    Don't go!
Synonyms
  • (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)
Derived terms

Pronoun

ekki

  1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing
Derived terms
  • koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

  1. sob, sobbing
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness
Declension
Synonyms

Old Norse

Etymology

From eitt (one (neuter)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈekki/

Pronoun

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

  1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

  1. not

Synonyms

Descendants

References

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