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strita

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

strita (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stritaði, supine stritað)

  1. (intransitive) to toil, to work hard
    Synonyms: erfiða, puða, streða, púla, baksa, basla, hamast, djöflast

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) ...

Derived terms

  • strit (toil, hard work)
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Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

strita

  1. (transitive) to drag with difficulty

Conjugation

More information infinitive, present participle ...
More information infinitive, present participle ...

Descendants

  • Icelandic: strita
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: streta, strete

Further reading

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