hvika

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hvika.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hvika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hvikaði, supine hvikað)

  1. (intransitive) to falter, to waver

Conjugation[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare kvikr (lively, quick) and kvikna (to come to life, stir about).

Verb[edit]

hvika

  1. (intransitive) to quail, shrink, waver

Descendants[edit]

  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvika, kvike

References[edit]

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