skammstafa

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Icelandic

Etymology

From skammur (short, adjective) +‎ stafa (to spell, verb), literally to short-spell.

Verb

skammstafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skammstafaði, supine skammstafað)

  1. abbreviate (to make shorter)

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References

  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2024), “skammstafa”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
  • Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
  • “skammstafa” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)