stýfa

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse stýfa (to cut off, to curtail), from Proto-Germanic *stūfijaną. Related to stúfr (a stump) (modern Icelandic stúfur (a stump)).

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Verb[edit]

stýfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stýfði, supine stýft)

  1. (with accusative) to shorten

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