skeyti

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skeyti.

Pronunciation

Noun

skeyti n (genitive singular skeytis, nominative plural skeyti)

  1. message
  2. telegram (more fully símskeyti)
  3. (archaic) shaft, missile, projectile

Declension

Declension of skeyti (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
accusative skeyti skeytið skeyti skeytin
dative skeyti skeytinu skeytum skeytunum
genitive skeytis skeytisins skeyta skeytanna

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

From skjóta (“to shoot”).

Noun

skeyti n

  1. shaft, missile

Descendants

  • Faroese: skoyti n (could be derived later from the Faroese verb skoyta, but in either case ultimately derived from the same root)
  • Icelandic: skeyti n

References

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