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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse øx (“axe”), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷs-ih₂- (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʏkːsa/
Noun
yxa c
- axe
Declension
Verb
yxa (present yxar, preterite yxade, supine yxat, imperative yxa)
- (yxa till, yxa ihop, yxa fram) to axe, to cut, chip or sculpture with an axe, to hack, to shape roughly, to make a prototype
- Heimskringla, part 3
Thorberg gick fram och yxade till kanten, så att alla märkena efter yxhuggen försvunno.- Then Thorberg went and chipped the planks until the deep notches were all smoothed and made even with the rest.
och så yxade jag till en stuga här vid vägen.- And so I built a log cabin here by the road.
kommittén hade yxat till ett förslag- the committee had hacked a rough proposal
jag yxade till min personliga profil lite grann- I shaped up my personal profile a bit
- (yxa ner, yxa upp, yxa sönder, yxa bort) to slash with an axe, to reduce or remove, to attack, to criticise
Hon har yxat ner antalet biståndsländer från 70 till 33- She has slashed the number of countries receiving our foreign aid from 70 to 33
yxa upp en vak- cut a hole in the ice with an axe
Conjugation
Conjugation of yxa (weak)
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