visna

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse visna, from Proto-Germanic *wisnon, *wesaną (“to consume”).

Pronunciation

Verb

visna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative visnaði, supine visnað)

  1. (intransitive) to wither, to dry up
    • Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
      Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."
      A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

visna

  1. past tense of visne
  2. supine of visne

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

visna (present tense visnar, past tense visna, past participle visna, passive infinitive visnast, present participle visnande, imperative visna/visn)

  1. alternative form of visne

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology

From the adjective visinn (“withered”). This derivation could also have taken place at an earlier stage in the linguistic history.

Verb

visna

  1. (intransitive) to wither

Conjugation

Conjugation of visna — active (weak class 2)
infinitive visna
present participle visnandi
past participle visnaðr
indicative present past
1st-person singular visna visnaða
2nd-person singular visnar visnaðir
3rd-person singular visnar visnaði
1st-person plural visnum visnuðum
2nd-person plural visnið visnuðuð
3rd-person plural visna visnuðu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular visna visnaða
2nd-person singular visnir visnaðir
3rd-person singular visni visnaði
1st-person plural visnim visnaðim
2nd-person plural visnið visnaðið
3rd-person plural visni visnaði
imperative present
2nd-person singular visna
1st-person plural visnum
2nd-person plural visnið
Conjugation of visna — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive visnask
present participle visnandisk
past participle visnazk
indicative present past
1st-person singular visnumk visnuðumk
2nd-person singular visnask visnaðisk
3rd-person singular visnask visnaðisk
1st-person plural visnumsk visnuðumsk
2nd-person plural visnizk visnuðuzk
3rd-person plural visnask visnuðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular visnumk visnuðumk
2nd-person singular visnisk visnaðisk
3rd-person singular visnisk visnaðisk
1st-person plural visnimsk visnaðimsk
2nd-person plural visnizk visnaðizk
3rd-person plural visnisk visnaðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular visnask
1st-person plural visnumsk
2nd-person plural visnizk

Descendants

  • Danish: visne
  • Icelandic: visna
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: visna
  • Swedish: vissna

Adjective

visna

  1. strong feminine accusative singular of visinn
  2. strong masculine accusative plural of visinn
  3. weak masculine oblique singular of visinn
  4. weak feminine nominative singular of visinn
  5. weak neuter all cases singular of visinn

References

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