tefja

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Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse tefja.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

tefja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tafði, supine tafið)

  1. to delay
  2. to hinder, to obstruct
  3. to tarry, to stay

Conjugation[edit]

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Related terms[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *tabjan-, from Proto-Indo-European *dobʰ-éie-, see also Sanskrit दिप्सति (dipsati, to deceive).

Verb[edit]

tefja (singular past indicative tafði, plural past indicative tǫfðu, past participle tafðr or tafiðr)

  1. to delay, hinder

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: tefja

References[edit]

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