gegnum
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Icelandic
[edit]Adverb
[edit]gegnum
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]gegnum
- first-person plural active present indicative of gegna
- first-person plural active present subjunctive of gegna
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ġeġnum
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”).
Preposition
[edit]gegnum
- (with accusative) through
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “gegnum”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press