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deyfa

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse deyfa.

Pronunciation

Verb

deyfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative deyfði, supine deyft)

  1. to numb
  2. (medicine) to anesthetize

Conjugation

More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...

Derived terms

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Old Norse

Etymology

From daufr (deaf).

Verb

deyfa

  1. to make deaf, deafen

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present participle ...
More information infinitive, present participle ...

Descendants

  • Icelandic: deyfa
  • Faroese: doyva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: døyva

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “deyfa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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