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Icelandic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skuwwijaną.
Verb
skyggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skyggði, supine skyggt)
- to overshadow, to block a source of illumination, to produce a shadow
Þú skyggir á mig.- You're standing in my light.
- (impersonal, of dusk) to fall; to become dark
Það fer að skyggja.- Dusk is falling.
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