telgja

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai) (third-person past singular), from Proto-Germanic *talgijaną. Related to talga (“a cutting, carving”), Old English telgor (“branch, bough”).

Verb

telgja

  1. to carve, to cut (wood or stone or metal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of telgja — active (weak class 1)
infinitive telgja
present participle telgjandi
past participle telgðr
indicative present past
1st-person singular telgi telgða
2nd-person singular telgir telgðir
3rd-person singular telgir telgði
1st-person plural telgjum telgðum
2nd-person plural telgið telgðuð
3rd-person plural telgja telgðu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular telgja telgða
2nd-person singular telgir telgðir
3rd-person singular telgi telgði
1st-person plural telgim telgðim
2nd-person plural telgið telgðið
3rd-person plural telgi telgði
imperative present
2nd-person singular telg, telgi
1st-person plural telgjum
2nd-person plural telgið
Conjugation of telgja — mediopassive (weak class 1)
infinitive telgjask
present participle telgjandisk
past participle telgzk
indicative present past
1st-person singular telgjumk telgðumk
2nd-person singular telgisk telgðisk
3rd-person singular telgisk telgðisk
1st-person plural telgjumsk telgðumsk
2nd-person plural telgizk telgðuzk
3rd-person plural telgjask telgðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular telgjumk telgðumk
2nd-person singular telgisk telgðisk
3rd-person singular telgisk telgðisk
1st-person plural telgimsk telgðimsk
2nd-person plural telgizk telgðizk
3rd-person plural telgisk telgðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular telgsk, telgisk
1st-person plural telgjumsk
2nd-person plural telgizk

Descendants

  • Icelandic: telgja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
  • Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
  • Old Swedish: tælghia

References

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