kveða

From Old Norse kveða, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰvɛːða/

  Rhymes: -ɛːða

kveða (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative kvað, third-person plural past indicative kváðu, supine kveðið)

1. to say

   Synonym: segja

2. to recite, to sing, to chant

   Synonym: syngja

3. to compose, to write (a verse or song)

   Synonym: yrkja

• kveða við (“to resound”)
• kveða upp dóm (“to pass sentence”)
• ákveða (“to decide”)

From Proto-Germanic *kweþaną (“to say”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).

kveða (singular past indicative kvað, plural past indicative kváðu, past participle kveðinn)

1. to say
2. to utter
3. to recite

• kveðandi f

• kveðja (“a greeting, welcome, salutation”, noun)
• kveðja (“to call on, summon; to welcome”, verb)
• kviða (“a ballad, narrative poem”)
• kviðja (“to banish, to forbid”)
• kviðjan (“banishment, a ban”)
• kviðlingr (“ditty”)
• kviðr (“verdict; inquest, jury; saying, word”)
• kvæði (“a poem, song”)

• Icelandic: kveða
• Faroese: kvøða
• Norwegian: kveda, kvede
• Old Swedish: kvæþa
  • Swedish: kväda
• Danish: kvæde

• kveða in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.