eyðileggja
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Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of eyði (“deserted, abandoned”) + leggja (“to lay, put”). Compare leggja í eyði (“to desert, abandon”).
Verb
[edit]eyðileggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eyðilagði, supine eyðilagt)
- to destroy, ruin, demolish [with accusative]
Conjugation
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
[edit]- (destroy): eyðilagður, eyðilegging
References
[edit]- Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “eyðileggja”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
- Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
- “eyðileggja” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)