ráfa

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ráfa, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (to wander, sway), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to move to and from, wander).

Verb

ráfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ráfaði, supine ráfað)

  1. (intransitive) to wander, to ramble, to roam
    Synonyms: eigra, rangla, reika, flakka, sveima, vafra
Conjugation
ráfa – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur ráfa
supine sagnbót ráfað
present participle
ráfandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég ráfa ráfaði ráfi ráfaði
þú ráfar ráfaðir ráfir ráfaðir
hann, hún, það ráfar ráfaði ráfi ráfaði
plural við ráfum ráfuðum ráfum ráfuðum
þið ráfið ráfuðuð ráfið ráfuðuð
þeir, þær, þau ráfa ráfuðu ráfi ráfuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú ráfa (þú), ráfaðu
plural þið ráfið (þið), ráfiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Derived terms
  • ráf (wandering)

Etymology 2

Noun

ráfa f (genitive singular ráfu, nominative plural ráfur)

  1. wimp, wuss
    Synonyms: rola, aumingi, gauð
Declension
Declension of ráfa (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ráfa ráfan ráfur ráfurnar
accusative ráfu ráfuna ráfur ráfurnar
dative ráfu ráfunni ráfum ráfunum
genitive ráfu ráfunnar ráfa ráfanna

References

  1. ^ Walter W Skeat (1910) “WAVER”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC.