hugga

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏkːa

Verb

hugga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative huggaði, supine huggað)

1. (with accusative) to comfort

   Ég hugga mig við það að hann þjáðist ekki.

   I console myself with that that he didn't suffer.

   Hún huggaði hann eftir að pabbi hans dó.

   She comforted him after the death of his father.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• óhuggandi

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• hogga

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫggva, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną.

Verb

hugga

1. to hew, chop

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: hugga

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hugga, from Old Norse hǫggva, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kowH-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

hugga (present hugger, preterite högg, supine huggit, imperative hugg)

1. to strike with something sharp (to cut into pieces, sculpt, damage, or for any other purpose); to stab, to cut, to hew, to chop, to fell (trees), to carve (sculpt)

   Han högg honom i armen med kniven

   He stabbed him in the arm with the knife

   Han högg av honom armen med macheten

   He chopped his arm off with the machete

   Han högg ner ett träd

   He cut down a tree

   Han högg ved

   He chopped wood

   Han högg ut en krokodil ur stenen

   He sculpted a crocodile out of the rock

   Han högg med kniven i luften

   He was stabbing with the knife in the air

2. to (forcefully) attack with a sharp body part, like teeth or claws, most commonly of biting

   Vargen högg honom i benet

   The wolf bit his leg

   Vargen högg med käftarna i luften

   The wolf was snapping its jaws (biting repeatedly) in the air

   Örnen högg honom i armen med klorna

   The eagle sank its talons into his arm

3. (by extension) to forcefully grab

   Han högg tag i hans arm

   He grabbed his arm

   Han högg tag i geväret

   He grabbed his rifle

4. (impersonal, often with till to express suddenness and short duration) to (suddenly) hurt

   Det högg till i sidan

   I felt a sting in my side

Usage notes

"Hugga i bitar" = "cut to pieces" and the like makes it sensible to include "cut" as a translation, though the intuition isn't of a glancing strike.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• grovhuggen
• hugga in
• huggorm (“common European adder”)
• huggsexa
• huggtand (“fang”)
• munhuggas
• skogshuggare (“lumberjack”)
• späckhuggare (“killer whale”)

Related terms

• hugg

See also

• på hugget
• rista (“carve”)
• skära (“cut”)

References

• hugga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hugga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hugga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)