feykja

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse feykja.

Pronunciation

Verb

feykja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative feykti, supine feykt)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to fly (from the wind)
  2. (transitive) to blow, blow off

Conjugation

References

Old Norse

Etymology

Causative of fjúka (be blown about by the wind).

Verb

feykja

  1. to blow, drive (away)

Descendants

  • Faroese: foykja
  • Icelandic: feykja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: føykja
  • Swedish: föka

Further reading

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