eggja

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse eggja.

Pronunciation

Verb

eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)

  1. to sharpen
  2. to incite

Conjugation

Conjugation of eggja (group v-30)
infinitive eggja
supine eggjað
participle (a6)1 eggjandi eggjaður
present past
first singular eggji eggjaði
second singular eggjar eggjaði
third singular eggjar eggjaði
plural eggja eggjaðu
imperative
singular eggja!
plural eggjið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

eggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eggjaði, supine eggjað)

  1. to incite or egg on

Conjugation

Noun

Template:is-noun form n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Noun

Template:is-noun form f

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Old Norse

Etymology

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From egg f (edge), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (edge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp).

Verb

eggja

  1. (ditransitive, with accusative and genitive) to incite, egg on to do
    eggja einhvern (acc.) einhvers (gen.)
    to egg someone on to do something

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: eggja
  • Faroese: eggja
  • Norwegian:
  • Middle English: eggen

References

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