<span class="searchmatch">kvæfa</span> alternative form of kœfa kefja kvefja Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “<span class="searchmatch">kvæfa</span>”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available...
<span class="searchmatch">kvæfa</span> From Proto-Germanic *kwēbijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂bʰ- (“to dive, dive in”). Cognate of Ancient Greek βάπτω (báptō). kǿfa to choke kefja...
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeh₂bʰ- (“to dive, dive in”). Cognate with Old Norse kœfa, <span class="searchmatch">kvæfa</span>, Icelandic kæfa. kväva (present kväver, preterite kvävde, supine kvävt,...
also Faroese køva, Norwegian Nynorsk kjøva. Compare the Icelandic form <span class="searchmatch">kvæfa</span>, Norwegian Nynorsk kvæva, Icelandic kvefja, obsolete Icelandic kvefja, Norwegian...