dyja

See also: dýja and Dyja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dūjan- (“to tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“blow, smoke”).

Compare Old English dofian (“rage”), Dutch dof, Middle High German top (“senseless, brainless, crazy”), Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam, wooziness, folly, silly pride”), Latin suffio (“to fumigate”), Lithuanian dujà (“drizzle, mist”).

Verb

dyja

1. to shake

Conjugation

Conjugation of dyja — active (weak class 1)

infinitive	dýja
present participle	dýjandi
past participle	dúiðr
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	dý	dúða
2nd-person singular	dýr	dúðir
3rd-person singular	dýr	dúði
1st-person plural	dýjum	dúðum
2nd-person plural	dýið	dúðuð
3rd-person plural	dýja	dúðu
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	dýja	dýða
2nd-person singular	dýir	dýðir
3rd-person singular	dýi	dýði
1st-person plural	dýim	dýðim
2nd-person plural	dýið	dýðið
3rd-person plural	dýi	dýði
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	dý
1st-person plural	dýjum
2nd-person plural	dýið

References

• “dyja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “dujan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107