feykja

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse feykja; causative of fjúka.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

feykja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative feykti, supine feykt)

  1. (transitive) to blow, drive (away)

Conjugation[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Causative of fjúka (be blown about by the wind).

Verb[edit]

feykja

  1. to blow, drive (away)

Descendants[edit]

  • Faroese: foykja
  • Icelandic: feykja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: føykja
  • Swedish: föka

References[edit]

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