efja
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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse efja, from Proto-Germanic *abjǭ (“ebb”). Cognate with English ebb.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
efja f (genitive singular efju, nominative plural efjur)
Declension[edit]
declension of efja
Synonyms[edit]
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *abjǭ, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“from, off, away”).
Noun[edit]
efja f
Declension[edit]
Declension of efja (weak jōn-stem)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: efja
- Faroese: evja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: evje
- Norwegian: ave m (dialectal)
- Old Swedish: æfia
- Swedish: ävja
References[edit]
- “efja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛvja
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