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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Verb
rigna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rigndi, supine rignt)
- (impersonal) to rain
Derived terms
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rignijaną.
Verb
rigna
- (impersonal) to rain
- rignir ― it rains
- rignir blóði ― it rains blood
Conjugation
Conjugation of rigna — impersonal, active (weak class 1)
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rigna
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| past participle
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rigndr
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indicative
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subjunctive
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present
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past
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present
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past
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| 3rd-person singular
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rignir
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rigndi
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rigni
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rigndi
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Descendants
Most descendants have the vowel of alternative form regna.
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “rigna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive