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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse þegja, from Proto-Germanic *þagjaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
tegja (present tense tegjer, past tense tagde, past participle tagt, imperative teg)
- (pre-1938 or dialectal) alternative form of teia (“to become silent”)
- Synonym: tagna
1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog [Norwegian Proverbs], page 212:Han skal tegja, some heve inkje til å segja.- He should keep silent, who has nothing to say.
References
- “tegja” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring