deyfa

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse deyfa.

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Verb[edit]

deyfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative deyfði, supine deyft)

  1. to numb
  2. (medicine) to anesthetize

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From daufr (deaf).

Verb[edit]

deyfa

  1. to make deaf, deafen

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Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: deyfa
  • Faroese: doyva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: døyva

References[edit]

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