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yxa

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Translingual

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Symbol

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yxa

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mayawali.

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse øx (axe), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-ih₂- (axe), from *h₂eḱ- (sharp, pointed).

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ʏkːsa/

Noun

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yxa c

  1. an axe
    Ronny högg ner ett träd med en yxa
    Ronny cut down a tree with an axe

Declension

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Declension of yxa
nominative genitive
singular indefinite yxa yxas
definite yxan yxans
plural indefinite yxor yxors
definite yxorna yxornas

Derived terms

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Verb

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yxa (present yxar, preterite yxade, supine yxat, imperative yxa)

  1. (yxa till, yxa ihop, yxa fram) to axe, to cut, chip or sculpture with an axe, to hack, to shape roughly, to make a prototype
    • Heimskringla, part 3
      Thorberg gick fram och yxade till kanten, så att alla märkena efter yxhuggen försvunno.
      Then Thorberg went and chipped the planks until the deep notches were all smoothed and made even with the rest.
    och så yxade jag till en stuga här vid vägen.
    And so I built a log cabin here by the road.
    kommittén hade yxat till ett förslag
    the committee had hacked a rough proposal
    jag yxade till min personliga profil lite grann
    I shaped up my personal profile a bit
  2. (yxa ner, yxa upp, yxa sönder, yxa bort) to slash with an axe, to reduce or remove, to attack, to criticise
    Hon har yxat ner antalet biståndsländer från 70 till 33
    She has slashed the number of countries receiving our foreign aid from 70 to 33
    yxa upp en vak
    cut a hole in the ice with an axe

Conjugation

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Conjugation of yxa (weak)
active passive
infinitive yxa yxas
supine yxat yxats
imperative yxa
imper. plural1 yxen
present past present past
indicative yxar yxade yxas yxades
ind. plural1 yxa yxade yxas yxades
subjunctive2 yxe yxade yxes yxades
present participle yxande
past participle yxad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

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