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eggja
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Faroese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)
Conjugation
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)
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Etymology 2
Noun
eggja n
Etymology 3
Noun
eggja f
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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)
- 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
- to incite, to egg on [with accusative ‘someone’ and genitive ‘to do something’]
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
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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