skeyti

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsceiːtɪ/

  Rhymes: -eiːtɪ

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

1. shaft, missile, projectile
2. message
3. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
4. (grammar, in compounds, as verbal noun of skeyta) affix, -fix; morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word

Derived terms

• flöskuskeyti

Derived from grammatical term of word component attached to a stem

• forskeyti
• innskeyti

• viðskeyti

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Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

1. shaft, missile

Related terms

• skeyta
• skjóta

Descendants

• Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
• Icelandic: skeyti n

References

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