dynja

See also: Dynja

Albanian

Etymology

From Turkish dünya, from Ottoman Turkish دنیا (dünyâ), from Arabic دُنْيَا (dunyā).

Noun

dynja f (definite dynjaja)

1. (colloquial) world

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “dynja”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎
• “dynja”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse dynja, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną (“to rumble, make a roaring sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪnja/

  Rhymes: -ɪnja

Verb

dynja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dundi, supine dunið)

1. (intransitive) to resound, to boom, to reverberate

   Synonyms: duna, drynja, ymja, glymja, bylja

2. (intransitive, of wind) to howl, to roar

Conjugation

dynja – active voice (germynd)

infinitive nafnháttur		að dynja
supine sagnbót		dunið
present participle lýsingarháttur nútíðar		dynjandi
		indicative framsöguháttur			subjunctive viðtengingarháttur
		present nútíð	past þátíð		present nútíð	past þátíð
singular	ég	dyn	dundi		dynji	dyndi
	þú	dynur	dundir		dynjir	dyndir
	hann, hún, það	dynur	dundi		dynji	dyndi
plural	við	dynjum	dundum		dynjum	dyndum
	þið	dynjið	dunduð		dynjið	dynduð
	þeir, þær, þau	dynja	dundu		dynji	dyndu
		imperative boðháttur
singular	þú	dyn (þú), dyndu
plural	þið	dynjið (þið), dynjiði1

¹ Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dynje

Etymology

From Old Norse dynja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʏnjɑ/

Verb

dynja (present tense dyn, past tense dunde, past participle dunt, present participle dynjande, imperative dyn)

1. to resound, to boom, to reverberate (make a loud, resonant sound, also figuratively)
   • 1894, Per Sivle, Svolder:

     So bar det laust med det Svolder-Slag, som dyn i vor Soga den Dag idag.

     Then erupted the battle of Svolder, which resounds in our history to this very day.

References

• “dynja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.