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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse syfja, from Proto-Germanic *sufjōną.
Verb
syfja (weak declension: syfjaði – syfjað)
- (transitive, impersonal) to make sleepy, to cause sleepiness (only used impersonally)
- Mig syfjar.
- I feel sleepy. (lit. Makes me sleepy)
Noun
syfja f
- sleepiness
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Old Norse
Etymology
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Verb
syfja
- (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to make sleepy
- Mik syfjar ― I grow sleepy (literally, “ makes me sleepy”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of syfja — impersonal, active (weak class 2)
Descendants
References
- “syfja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press