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erja
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See also: Erja
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Verb
erja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative erjaði, supine erjað)
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.
Related terms
- arður (“plough; profit”)
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *arjaną (“to plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éryeti, with the root *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). At the Proto-Germanic stage, it had a strong conjugation.
Verb
erja
- to plough
- Anonymous stanza cited in c. 1250, Óláfr ‘White Skald’ Þórðarson, Third Grammatical Treatise
- Sás af Íslandi · arði barði
- He who ploughed [the sea] with the prow away from Iceland
- Anonymous stanza cited in c. 1250, Óláfr ‘White Skald’ Þórðarson, Third Grammatical Treatise
- to scratch, scrape
Declension
Related terms
- arðr m
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “erja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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