þjóna

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Icelandic

Etymology

Akin to Danish tjene, German dienen.

Pronunciation

Verb

þjóna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þjónaði, supine þjónað)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the dative) to serve someone, to be in somebody's service
    • Judges 2:19
      En er dómarinn andaðist, breyttu þeir að nýju verr en feður þeirra, með því að elta aðra guði til þess að þjóna þeim og falla fram fyrir þeim. Þeir létu eigi af gjörðum sínum né þrjóskubreytni sinni.
      But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshipping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, governs the dative) to serve somebody's table, to wait on somebodyTemplate:jump

Conjugation

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage)

Akin to modern German dienen.

Verb

þjóna

  1. to serve

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Also descendants of þéna.

  • Icelandic: þjóna
  • Norwegian:
  • Old Swedish: þiǣna, þiāna, þiēna
  • Danish: tjene

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