ekki

See also: ikke, ikkje, and ikki

English

Noun

ekki (uncountable)

1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.

Anagrams

• kike

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

Declension of ekki (singular only)
m1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	ekki	ekkin
accusative	ekka	ekkan
dative	ekka	ekkanum
genitive	ekka	ekkans

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ

• IPA^(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

1. not

   Ég er ekki Kira!

   I'm not Kira!

   Ég fer ekki í dag vegna þess að ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.

   I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.

2. don't

   Ekki fara!

   Don't go!

Synonyms

• (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)

Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• ekki baun
• ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið
• vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur
• peningar vaxa ekki á trjám
• kemba ekki hærurnar

Pronoun

ekki

1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing

Derived terms

• koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

1. sob, sobbing
2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

declension of ekki

m-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ekki	ekkinn	ekkar	ekkarnir
accusative	ekka	ekkann	ekka	ekkana
dative	ekka	ekkanum	ekkum	ekkunum
genitive	ekka	ekkans	ekka	ekkanna

Synonyms

• (sob): snökt n, ekkasog n

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Old Norse

Etymology

From eitt (“one (neuter)”) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈekki/

Pronoun

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

1. not

Synonyms

• eigi
• ne

Descendants

• Danish: ikke
• Faroese: ikki
• Icelandic: ekki
• Norwegian
  • Bokmål: ikke
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje
• Swedish: icke

References

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