rigna

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse regna, from Proto-Germanic *regnōną (“to rain”), verbal form of *regną (“rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreǵʰ- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪkna/

  Rhymes: -ɪkna

Verb

rigna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rigndi, supine rignt)

1. (impersonal) to rain

Derived terms

• rigna eldi og brennisteini

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• regna

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rignijaną.

Verb

rigna

1. (impersonal) to rain [intransitive or with dative]

   rignir ― it rains

   rignir blóði ― it rains blood

Conjugation

Conjugation of rigna — impersonal, active (weak class 1)

infinitive	rigna
past participle	rigndr
	indicative			subjunctive
	present	past		present	past
3rd-person singular	rignir	rigndi		rigni	rigndi

Descendants

Most descendants have the vowel of alternative form regna.

• Danish: regne
• Faroese: regna, rigna
• Icelandic: regna, rigna
• Norwegian Bokmål: regne
• Norwegian Nynorsk: regna, regne (e-infinitive)
• Swedish: regna

Further reading

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