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ferja

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Faroese

Noun

ferja f (genitive singular ferju, plural ferjur)

  1. ferry

Declension

More information f1, singular ...

Verb

ferja (third person singular past indicative ferjaði, third person plural past indicative ferjað, supine ferjað)

  1. to ferry

Conjugation

More information infinitive, supine ...

1Only the past participle being declined.

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Gothic

Romanization

ferja

  1. romanization of 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

ferja f (genitive singular ferju, nominative plural ferjur)

  1. ferry
    Synonym: ferjubátur
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ferja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ferjaði, supine ferjað)

  1. to ferry
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) ...
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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

ferja m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of ferje

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ferja f (definite singular ferja, indefinite plural ferjer or ferjor, definite plural ferjene or ferjone)

  1. definite singular of ferje
  2. (pre-2012) alternative form of ferje

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *farjǭ.

Noun

ferja f (genitive ferju)

  1. ferry
Declension
More information feminine, singular ...
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ferja
  • Faroese: ferja
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ferge, ferje
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ferja, ferje, ferju
  • Old Swedish: færia
  • Old Danish: færje

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *farjaną, *farjōną, also from *farjǭ.

Verb

ferja (singular present indicative ferr or ferjar, singular past indicative farði or ferjaði)

  1. to ferry
Conjugation

Due to its twofold etymology, ferja is inflected as both a short class 1 weak verb and a class 2 weak verb.

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

Further reading

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