erja

See also: Erja

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛrja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrja

Verb

erja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative erjaði, supine erjað)

  1. to plough, to till
    Synonym: plægja

Conjugation


Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arjaną (to plough), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti, with the root *h₂erh₃- (to plough). At the Proto-Germanic stage, it had a strong conjugation.

Verb

erja

  1. to plough
  2. to scratch, scrape

Declension

Descendants

References

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