deyja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteiːja/
    Rhymes: -eiːja
    Homophones: deigja

Verb

deyja (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative , third-person plural past indicative dóu, supine dáið)

  1. (intransitive) to die
    Synonyms: andast, sálast, fá bana, látast, (archaic) deyja burt, sofna svefninum langa, sofna hinsta svefni
    Hún úr krabbameini.She died of cancer.
    Hundruð manna dóu úr hor.Hundreds died of hunger.
    Við munum öll deyja!We are all going to die!
    deyja úr kulda.To die from exposure.
  2. (intransitive) to pass out from drinking
  3. (intransitive, of fire) to go out
    Synonym: slokkna
  4. (intransitive, nautical, of the ocean) to calm down, to subside
    Synonyms: stillast, lygna
  5. (intransitive, of grass) to wither
    Synonyms: falla, sölna

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • deyja af, deyja niður, deyja út (to calm down) (of weather or sea)
  • deyja burt (to die) (archaic)
  • deyja drottni sínum
  • deyja ekki ráðalaus (to not to give up easily)
  • deyja fyrir hendi einhver (to die at the hands of someone)
  • deyja niður (to die in heaps)
  • deyja úr hor, deyja úr hungri (to starve to death)
  • deyja út af (to die a natural death), confer lognast út af
  • deyja út (to become extinct, die out)
  • deyja úti (not make it to the barn, left out in times of autumn) (of hay)

See also

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dawjaną, whence also English die, Old High German touwen.

Verb

deyja (singular past indicative , plural past indicative , past participle dáinn)

  1. to die
    • 800s, Hávamál, verse 76
      Deyr fé, / deyja frændr,
      deyr sjalfr it sama,
      en orðstírr / deyr aldregi,
      hveim er sér góðan getr.
      Cattle die, / kinsmen die;
      the self dies the same.
      But a word-glory / never dies
      for him, who a good one gets.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • strádeyja (to die a straw death)

Descendants

  • Middle English: deyen
  • Icelandic: deyja
  • Faroese: doyggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: døy, døya
  • Dalecarlian:
    • Mora: däja
    • Elfdalian: däia, däa
  • Old Swedish: dø̄ia
  • Old Danish: dø̄
    • Scanian: dǿja
    • Danish:
      • Norwegian Bokmål:
  • Old Gutnish: doyia
    • Gutnish: dåie, dåi, doä

References

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