eisa

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English

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Etymology

From Okinawan エイサー.

Noun

eisa (uncountable)

  1. A form of Okinawan folk dance.

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

eisa f (genitive singular eisu, nominative plural eisur)

  1. embers

Declension

    Declension of eisa
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative eisa eisan eisur eisurnar
accusative eisu eisuna eisur eisurnar
dative eisu eisunni eisum eisunum
genitive eisu eisunnar eisa eisanna

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *aisōną (“to drive violently”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oyseh₂ye-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂ (“to move, propel”). Cognate with Latin īra (“anger, rage”).

Verb

eisa

  1. to dash forward, rush

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (“fire, pyre”).

Noun

eisa f

  1. glowing embers
    • 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson.
      Øx rýðsk – eisur vaxa,
      allmǫrg – loga hallir –
      hús brenna, gim geisar,
      góðmennit fellr – blóði.
      The axe is reddened with blood, the embers grow,
      the halls are engulfed,
      all houses are burning, the flame surges,
      and the good man falls.
Declension
  Declension of eisa (weak ōn-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative eisa eisan eisur eisurnar
accusative eisu eisuna eisur eisurnar
dative eisu eisunni eisum eisunum
genitive eisu eisunnar eisna eisnanna
Synonyms
Descendants
  • Icelandic: eisa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: eisa, eise; (dialectal) ese, hese
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: eise
  • Swedish: (dialectal) ajsa
  • → Scots: aes, es, aze

References

  • “eisa1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
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