leysa

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse leysa, from Proto-Germanic *lausijaną. Cognate with Dutch lozen, obsolete English leese (from Old English līesan), German lösen; also Danish løse, Faroese loysa, Norwegian løse and Swedish lösa.

Pronunciation

Verb

leysa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative leysti, supine leyst)

  1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to loosenTemplate:jump
  2. (transitive, governs the accusative) to resolve, to solve, to unravelTemplate:jump
    Ég er að reyna að leysa þetta vandamál.
    I am trying to solve this problem.
  3. (transitive, governs the accusative) to untie, to extricate, unfastenTemplate:jump
  4. (impersonal, of snow) with various meanings, e.g. of snow thawing
    Snjóinn leysir. þolfallsfrumlag (an accusative subject)
    The snow is thawing.
    Móðurinni leystist höfn. þágufallsfrumlag (a dative subject)
    The mother lost her unborn child.

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