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heyja
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Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈheiːja/
- Rhymes: -eiːja
- Homophones: hegja, heygja
Etymology 1
Related to hey (“hay”).
Verb
heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heyjaði, supine heyjað)
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
From Old Norse heyja, from Proto-Germanic *hawjaną, cognate with Old English ġehēgan.
Verb
heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative háði, supine háð)
- (transitive) to wage, hold, conduct, carry out (e.g. a battle, war) [with accusative]
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hawjaną.
Verb
heyja
- (transitive) to hold, to conduct [with accusative]
- to fight, to wage (battle)
Conjugation
Descendants
- Icelandic: heyja
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “heyja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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