syfja

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse syfja, from Proto-Germanic *sufjōną.

Verb[edit]

syfja (weak declension: syfjaðisyfjað)

  1. (transitive, impersonal) to make sleepy, to cause sleepiness (only used impersonally)
    Mig syfjar.
    I feel sleepy. (lit. Makes me sleepy)

Noun[edit]

syfja f

  1. sleepiness

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Verb[edit]

syfja

  1. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to make sleepy
    Mik syfjarI grow sleepy (literally, “[It] makes me sleepy”)

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: syfja

References[edit]

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