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heyja

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Related to hey (hay).

Verb

heyja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heyjaði, supine heyjað)

  1. to make hay
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

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)

  1. (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

  1. (transitive) to hold, to conduct [with accusative]
  2. to fight, to wage (battle)

Conjugation

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

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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