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rista

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See also: rísta, ristà, and rista'

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrista

Verb

rista (third person singular past indicative risti, third person plural past indicative ristu, supine rist)

  1. to shake

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rísta

Verb

rista (third person singular past indicative risti, third person plural past indicative ristu, supine rist)

  1. to scratch, to cut

Etymology 3

From the original meaning "roast, "grill, "grate," from Old Norse rist, from Middle Low German rōsten, from Old Saxon *rōstian, from Proto-West Germanic *raustijan, similar to Danish rist.

Verb

rista (third person singular past indicative ristaði, third person plural past indicative ristaðu, supine ristað)

  1. to toast (bread)
Conjugation
More information infinitive, supine ...

1Only the past participle being declined.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rísta.

Verb

rista (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative risti, supine rist)

  1. to cut, to carve [with accusative]
    Synonym: skera
  2. (intransitive, of a ship) to draw
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 strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...

Noun

rista f (genitive singular ristu, nominative plural ristur)

  1. cut, slit
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

Verb

rista (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ristaði, supine ristað)

  1. to toast [with accusative]
    ristað brauðtoasted bread
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) ...
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Italian

Verb

rista

  1. misspelling of ristà (third-person singular present indicative of ristare) and rista' (second-person singular imperative of ristare)

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

rista

  1. inflection of riste:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rista (present tense ristar or rister, past tense rista or riste, past participle rista or rist, present participle ristande, imperative rist)

  1. alternative form of riste

Swedish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Swedish rista. Cognate of Icelandic rista. Doublet of rita.

Verb

rista (present ristar, preterite ristade, supine ristat, imperative rista)

  1. carve, cut, scratch with a sharp tool.
    rista (in) runor i sten
    carve runes in(to) stone
Conjugation
More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Norse hrista, from Proto-Germanic *hristijaną. Cognate of Icelandic hrista.

Verb

rista (present rister, preterite riste, supine rist, imperative rist)

  1. to shake
    Synonym: skaka
Usage notes

Somewhat literary or poetic.

Conjugation
More information active, passive ...

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

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