rigna

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Icelandic

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

rigna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rigndi, supine rignt)

  1. (impersonal) to rain

Derived terms

[edit]

Old Norse

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *rignijaną.

Verb

[edit]

rigna

  1. (impersonal, intransitive or transitive, with dative) to rain
    rignirit rains
    rignir blóðiit rains blood

Conjugation

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

Most descendants have the vowel of alternative form regna.

  • Danish: regne
  • Faroese: regna, rigna
  • Icelandic: regna, rigna
  • Norwegian Bokmål: regne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: regna, regne (e-infinitive)
  • Swedish: regna

References

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