skoða

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See also: skoda, škoda, and Škoda

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skoða, related to Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (to look) and *skauniz (shining), all from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (to perceive).[1]

Verb

skoða (third person singular past indicative skoðaði, third person plural past indicative skoðað, supine skoðað)

  1. to look at, to contemplate

Conjugation

Conjugation of skoða (group v-30)
infinitive skoða
supine skoðað
participle (a6)1 skoðandi skoðaður
present past
first singular skoði skoðaði
second singular skoðar skoðaði
third singular skoðar skoðaði
plural skoða skoðaðu
imperative
singular skoða!
plural skoðið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “schauen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skoða, related to Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (to look) and *skauniz (shining), all from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (to perceive).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

skoða (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skoðaði, supine skoðað)

  1. to view, to observe, to watch, to check out
    • Hávamál (English source, Icelandic source)
      Inn vari gestur
      er til verðar kemur
      þunnu hljóði þegir,
      eyrum hlýðir,
      en augum skoðar.
      Svo nýsist fróðra hver fyrir.
      The knowing guest
      who goes to the feast,
      In silent attention sits;
      With his ears he hears,
      with his eyes he watches,
      Thus wary are wise men all.
  2. to study, to examine
  3. to consider, to look at

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “schauen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891