semja

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse semja, from Proto-Germanic *samjaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

semja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative samdi, supine samið)

  1. (intransitive) to negotiate
  2. (transitive) to write, to compose (prose, poetry, music, laws, etc.)
  3. (impersonal, with dative) to get along
    Okkur Jóni semur ekki sérlega vel.
    Me and Jón don’t get along very well.

Conjugation

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse semja, from Proto-Germanic *samjaną.

Noun

semja

  1. definite singular of semje
  2. (non-standard since 2012) Alternative form of semje

Verb

semja (present tense sem, past tense samde, past participle samt, passive infinitive semjast, present participle semjande, imperative sem)

  1. to reconcile

Related terms

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *samjaną (to make the same). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (together, one).

Verb

semja (present indicative sem, past indicative samdi, past participles samiðr or samdr)

  1. to shape, compose, arrange
  2. to agree on, settle
  3. to reform, mend

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: semja
  • Faroese: semja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: semja
  • Old Swedish: sæmia
  • Middle Norwegian: semja f
  • Swedish: sämja

References

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