glymja

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Faroese

Pronunciation

Verb

glymja (third person singular past indicative glumdi, third person plural past indicative glumt, supine glumt)

  1. to rumble, roar, resound, roister

Conjugation

Conjugation of glymja (group v-19)
infinitive glymja
supine glumt
participle (a7)1 glymjandi glumdur
present past
first singular glymi glumdi
second singular glymur glumdi
third singular glymur glumdi
plural glymja glumdu
imperative
singular glym!
plural glymið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

glymja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative glumdi, supine glumið)

  1. to boom, to rumble
    Synonyms: drynja, dynja
  2. to resound, to reverberate, to echo
    Synonyms: ymja, bylja

Conjugation

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse glymja.

Pronunciation

Verb

glymja (present tense glym, past tense glumde, supine glumt, past participle glumd, present participle glymjande, imperative glym)

  1. (intransitive) to boom, rumble

References

Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

glymja (singular past indicative glumdi, plural past indicative glumdu, past participle glumiðr)

  1. (intransitive) to dash noisily, roar, splash
  2. (intransitive) to clatter, rattle, to resound

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: glymja
  • Faroese: glymja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: glymja

Further reading

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