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drepa

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse drepa.

Verb

drepa (third person singular past indicative drap, third person plural past indicative drópu, supine dripið)

  1. to kill
  2. (chess) to capture
  3. to dip
  4. to move
  5. to get wet
  6. to drop

Conjugation

More information infinitive, supine ...

1Only the past participle being declined.

Synonyms

  • (kill): taka lívið av, taka av døgum, avlíva, veita bana, sláa í hel
  • (capture): taka, beina fyri
  • (dip): dýva, stinga
  • (move): rørast
  • (get wet): vatndrukna
  • (drop): dryppa, leka
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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse drepa.

Pronunciation

Verb

drepa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative drap, third-person plural past indicative drápu, supine drepið)

  1. to beat, hit [intransitive or with accusative]
  2. to kill [intransitive or with accusative]
    Ég drap hestinn.
    I killed the horse.
  3. (chess) to capture [with accusative]
  4. to dip [intransitive or with dative]
    Að drepa fingri í lækinn.
    To dip a finger in the brook.

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

  • drepa á dyr
  • drepa á
  • drepa á sér
  • drepast
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Dialectal forms

Etymology

From Old Norse drepa (“to stab, hit”), cognate with German treffen, Dutch treffen, and English drub. Doublet of treffe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²drɛːpa/, [²drɛ̝ːpɐ̞]

Verb

drepa (present tense drep, past tense drap, supine drepe, past participle drepen, present participle drepande, imperative drep)

  1. To kill, to murder.
    Ho er mistenkt for å ha drepe faren sin.
    She is suspected of having killed her father.
    Ein person vart drepen og to alvorleg såra i ei bilulukke.
    One person was killed and two were seriously injured in a car accident.
    Den drepne var 40 år gamal.
    The victim was 40 years old. (literally: "the killed was 40 years old")
  2. To ruin, strain, extinguish, kill. (of persons)
    Den evinnelege masinga di har drepe arbeidslysta mi!
    Your constant nagging has ruined my zeal for work!
    Den filmen var drepande keisam!
    That film was incredibly boring! (literally: "that film was killingly boring")
    Då du sa dei orda, drap du kjenslene hennar.
    When you said those words, you killed her feelings.

Synonyms

to kill, murder
to strain, stab, ruin

Derived terms

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to strike, push, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh-, *dhreb- (“to crack, crush, kill”); cognate with Old English drepan, German treffen (“hit, meet”).

Verb

drepa (singular past indicative drap, plural past indicative drápu, past participle drepinn)

  1. to beat, to hit, to push, to knock
  2. to kill, to slay
  3. to capture (e.g. in chess)

Conjugation

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

Descendants

  • Icelandic: drepa
  • Faroese: drepa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: drepe, drepa, dribba (dialectal)
  • Old Swedish: dræpa
  • Danish: dræbe
  • Old Gutnish: drepa

Further reading

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