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dafna

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse dafna, from Proto-Germanic *dabanōną, from Proto-Germanic *dabaną (to be fitting).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dafna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dafnaði, supine dafnað)

  1. to thrive

Conjugation

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dafna – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur dafna
supine sagnbót dafnað
present participle
dafnandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég dafna dafnaði dafni dafnaði
þú dafnar dafnaðir dafnir dafnaðir
hann, hún, það dafnar dafnaði dafni dafnaði
plural við döfnum döfnuðum döfnum döfnuðum
þið dafnið döfnuðuð dafnið döfnuðuð
þeir, þær, þau dafna döfnuðu dafni döfnuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú dafna (þú), dafnaðu
plural þið dafnið (þið), dafniði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *dabanōną, from Proto-Germanic *dabaną (to be fitting), cognate with Old English dafenian. Compare Old Armenian դարբին (darbin, smith).

Verb

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dafna

  1. to thrive

Conjugation

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “dafna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive