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eggja

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse eggja.

Pronunciation

Verb

eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)

  1. to sharpen
  2. to incite

Conjugation

More information infinitive, supine ...

1Only the past participle being declined.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

eggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eggjaði, supine eggjað)

  1. to incite or egg on
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) ...

Etymology 2

Noun

eggja n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Etymology 3

Noun

eggja f

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

eggja (present tense eggjar, past tense eggja, past participle eggja, passive infinitive eggjast, present participle eggjande, imperative eggja/eggj)

  1. alternative form of eggje

Old Norse

Etymology

From egg f (edge), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (edge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp).

Verb

eggja

  1. to incite, to egg on [with accusative ‘someone’ and genitive ‘to do something’]

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: eggja
  • Faroese: eggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: egga, egge, eggja, eggje; eggjast med
  • Norwegian Bokmål: egge
  • Danish: ægge
  • Old English: eggian
  • Scots: agg

Further reading

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