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hnjóta
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Icelandic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hneutaną, related to hnjótur, hnot, hnúta, and hnöggva.
Pronunciation
Verb
hnjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hnaut, third-person plural past indicative hnutu, supine hnotið)
- to stumble [with um (+ accusative) ‘over’]
- Drengurinn hnaut um steininn.
- The boy tripped over the rock.
- Stephan G. Stephansson, Fullkomleikinn ("The Perfectness")
- Hæsta takmark hugsjónar
- haft í stiga aðeins var.
- Að hnjóta um lífsins hála svið,
- að hrasa og falla, en upp á við,
- er ferill framfara auði.
- Vision's highest goal
- was only kept in stairs.
- To trip over life's slippery stage,
- to stumble and fall, but upwards,
- are the empty traces of progress.
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
References
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
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