belgja

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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belgja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative belgdi, supine belgt)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to inflate, to blow up

Conjugation

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Noun

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belgja

  1. indefinite genitive plural of belgur

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *balgijaną, causative of *belganą. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (to swell).

Verb

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belgja

  1. to inflate, puff out

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: belgja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: belgja, belga; (dialectal) bægje
  • Old Swedish: bælghia
  • Danish: bælle

References

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