bylja

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse bylja (bellow, roar), from Proto-Germanic *buljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (to roar), of onomatopoeic origin. Related to belja (to roar).

Pronunciation

Verb

bylja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative buldi, supine bulið)

  1. (intransitive) to reverberate, to resound
    Synonyms: ymja, dynja, glymja

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Further reading

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *buljaną.

Verb

bylja (singular past indicative buldi, plural past indicative buldu, past participle buldr or buliðr)

  1. to resound, roar

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: bylja

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bylja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive