svella

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse svella, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (to swell). Cognate with Swedish svälla, English swell, German schwellen, Dutch zwellen, Luxembourgish schwëllen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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svella (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative svall, third-person plural past indicative sullu, supine sollið)

  1. (intransitive) to swell, to surge

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Italian

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Verb

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svella

  1. inflection of svellere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *swellaną (to swell).

Verb

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svella (singular past indicative svall, plural past indicative sullu, past participle sollinn)

  1. to swell

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: svella
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: svella, svelle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: svelle
  • Old Swedish: svælla

References

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