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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *faigijaz, whence also Old English fæġe (English fey)), Old High German feigi (“cowardly”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈfɛiɣr̩/
Adjective
feigr
- fey, doomed to die
Declension
The original paradigm inherited from Proto-Germanic was a ja-stem, but already by classic written Old Norwegian-Icelandic it had shifted to a regular a-stem, thus with accusative feigan. However, on the 9th century Swedish Rök runestone we find the form faikiąn (normalized spelling fęigjan), with the ja-stem declension still intact.
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “feigr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive