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semja
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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse semja, from Proto-Germanic *samjaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
semja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative samdi, supine samið)
- (intransitive) to negotiate
- (transitive) to write, to compose (prose, poetry, music, laws, etc.)
- (impersonal) to cause to get along [with dative ‘some people’] (idiomatically translated as "get along" with the dative object as the subject)
- Okkur Jóni semur ekki sérlega vel.
- Me and Jón don’t get along very well.
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.
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- semje (e infinitive)
Etymology
From Old Norse semja, from Proto-Germanic *samjaną.
Noun
semja
Verb
semja (present tense sem, past tense samde, past participle samt, passive infinitive semjast, present participle semjande, imperative sem)
- to reconcile
Related terms
- semjast
References
- “semja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *samjaną (“to make the same”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).
Verb
semja (present indicative sem, past indicative samdi, past participles samiðr or samdr)
Conjugation
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “semja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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