heygja

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse heygja, from Proto-Germanic *haugijaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

heygja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heygði, supine heygt)

  1. to inter in a how, burial mound

Conjugation

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haugijaną, ultimately related to *haugaz (hill).

Verb

heygja (past participle heygðr)

  1. (transitive) to bury in a how

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: heygja

Further reading

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