eggja

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse eggja.

Pronunciation

Verb

eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)

  1. to sharpen
  2. to incite

Conjugation

Conjugation of eggja (group v-30)
infinitive eggja
supine eggjað
participle (a6)1 eggjandi eggjaður
present past
first singular eggji eggjaði
second singular eggjar eggjaði
third singular eggjar eggjaði
plural eggja eggjaðu
imperative
singular eggja!
plural eggjið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

eggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eggjaði, supine eggjað)

  1. to incite or egg on

Conjugation

Noun

eggja n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Noun

eggja f

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

eggja (present tense eggjar, past tense eggja, past participle eggja, passive infinitive eggjast, present participle eggjande, imperative eggja/eggj)

  1. Alternative form of eggje

Old Norse

Etymology

From egg f (edge), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (edge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp).

Verb

eggja

  1. (ditransitive with accusative and genitive) to incite, egg on to do
    eggja einhvern (acc.) einhvers (gen.)
    to egg someone on to do something

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Icelandic: eggja
  • Faroese: eggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: egga, egge, eggja, eggje; eggjast med
  • Norwegian Bokmål: egge
  • Middle English: eggen
  • Scots: agg

References

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