þjappa

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

the word appears in the 17. century and does not have related terms in other languages

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Verb[edit]

þjappa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þjappaði, supine þjappað)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative) to compress something, to press, to pack something
  2. (technology, transitive, governs the dative) to compress, (to make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits)

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