gegnum

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Icelandic

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Adverb

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gegnum

  1. through

Derived terms

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Verb

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gegnum

  1. first-person plural active present indicative of gegna
  2. first-person plural active present subjunctive of gegna

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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ġeġnum

  1. (poetic) straight, directly

Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”).

Preposition

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gegnum

  1. (with accusative) through

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: gegnum
  • Faroese: gjøgnum
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gjennom
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gjennom
  • Old Swedish: gēnom
  • Danish: gennem

References

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  • “gegnum”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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