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leysa
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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse leysa, from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną.
Cognate with Dutch lozen, English loose (from Old Norse lauss), obsolete English leese (from Old English līesan), German lösen; also Danish løse, Faroese loysa, Norwegian Bokmål løse/løyse, Norwegian nynorsk løyse/løysa and Swedish lösa.
Pronunciation
Verb
leysa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative leysti, supine leyst)
- to loosen [with accusative]
- Synonym: losa
- to resolve, to solve, to unravel [with accusative]
- Synonyms: ráða, ráða fram úr, finna lausn, finna lausn á
- Ég er að reyna að leysa þetta vandamál.
- I am trying to solve this problem.
- to untie, to extricate, unfasten [with accusative]
- Synonym: losa
- (impersonal, of snow) with various meanings, e.g. of snow thawing
- Snjóinn leysir. þolfallsfrumlag (“an accusative subject”)
- The snow is thawing.
- Móðurinni leystist höfn. þágufallsfrumlag (“a dative subject”)
- The mother lost her unborn child.
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.
Derived terms
- leysa af
- leysa af hendi
- leysa frá skjóðunni
- leysa upp
- leysa úr vanda
- leysa út með gjöfum
- leysa út vörur
- leysast
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