kvika

See kvikur (“rapid, swift”)

kvika (third person singular past indicative kvikaði, third person plural past indicative kvikaðu, supine kvikað)

1. to hasten, to hurry

• skunda

From Old Norse kvika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰvɪːka/

  Rhymes: -ɪːka

kvika f (genitive singular kviku, nominative plural kvikur)

1. quick (flesh under nails, hoofs, etc.)
2. (obsolete) spring, fount (place where water emerges from the ground)
3. (nautical) swell
4. quicksand
5. (geology) magma

• (spring, fount): lind, uppspretta, uppsprettulind
• (swell): undiralda, gjúga
• (quicksand): kviksyndi, sandbleyta, sandkvika, sandyrja, sandysja, ysja

kvika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kvikaði, supine kvikað)

1. (intransitive) to move, stir (of small movements)

kvika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hvikaði, supine hvikað)

1. (intransitive) to move away, withdraw

Related to kvik (“quick, lively”).

• kvike (e infinitive)

kvika (present tense kvikar, past tense kvika, past participle kvika, passive infinitive kvikast, present participle kvikande, imperative kvika/kvik)

1. (transitive) to liven up, invigorate
2. (intransitive) to grow, become augmented

   elva har kvika i natt

   the river has grown by night

From Old Norse hvika (“to quail, shrink, waver”).

• kvike (e infinitive)

kvika (present tense kvikar, past tense kvika, past participle kvika, passive infinitive kvikast, present participle kvikande, imperative kvika/kvik)

1. (intransitive) to shudder
2. (intransitive) to be confused

• “kvika” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• kvikva

Related to kvikr (“alive”).

kvika f

1. the quick (under nails, hoofs etc.)
2. (uncertain) polyps (in the nostrils)
3. running fluid

• Icelandic: kvika f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvik m, kvike m
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvik m, kvike m

• “kvika”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press