reisa

• IPA^(key):

From late Old Norse reisa, from Middle Low German reise.

reisa f (genitive singular reisu, plural reisur)

1. journey
2. time, times

• (journey): ferð
• (time, times): reis, sinn

A merger of ríse, from Old Norse rísa (“rise”) and Old Norse reisa (“raise”). In the sense "go, travel" from Middle Low German reisen.

reisa (third person singular past indicative reisti, third person plural past indicative reist, supine reist)

1. to raise, to lever, to lift
2. to build
3. to begin
4. (colloquial) to travel

• (to lift): fáa at rísa, hevja, lyfta
• (to build): gera (smíða, laða, ...)
• (to begin): byrja
• (to travel): ferðast

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈreiːsa/
• Rhymes: -eiːsa

reisa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative reisti, supine reist)

1. (transitive) to build

   það á að reisa nýjan skóla

   a new school is to be built

2. (transitive) to lift

   ég gat ekki reist höfuðið frá koddanum

   I couldn't lift my head from the pillow

• “reisa” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• reisen

reisa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of reise

reisa f

1. definite singular of reise

From Middle Low German reisen.

reisa (present tense reiser, past tense reiste, past participle reist, passive infinitive reisast, present participle reisande, imperative reis)

1. to travel
2. to trip (on drugs)

• bortreist
• reisevant
• reising

From Old Norse reisa, causative of rísa.

reisa (inflections same as above)

1. to raise, erect

• “reisa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Earliest attested in Proto-Norse ᚱᛡᛁᛋᛁᛞᛟ (rᴀisido /⁠raisidō⁠/) (1st singular past indicative), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative of *rīsaną (rísa). See raise for more.

reisa

1. to raise

• Icelandic: reisa
• Faroese: reisa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: reisa
• Old Swedish: rēsa
  • Swedish: resa
• Danish: rejse
  • Norwegian Bokmål: reise
• → Middle English: reisen, raisen
  • Scots: rais, rase, raise
  • English: raise