dyja

See also: dýja and Dyja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dūjan- (“to tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“blow, smoke”).

Compare Old English dofian (“rage”), Dutch dof, Middle High German top (“senseless, brainless, crazy”), Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam, wooziness, folly, silly pride”), Latin suffio (“to fumigate”), Lithuanian dujà (“drizzle, mist”).

Verb

dyja

  1. to shake

Conjugation
Conjugation of dyja — active (weak class 1)
infinitive dýja
present participle dýjandi
past participle dúiðr
indicative present past
1st-person singular dý dúða
2nd-person singular dýr dúðir
3rd-person singular dýr dúði
1st-person plural dýjum dúðum
2nd-person plural dýið dúðuð
3rd-person plural dýja dúðu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular dýja dýða
2nd-person singular dýir dýðir
3rd-person singular dýi dýði
1st-person plural dýim dýðim
2nd-person plural dýið dýðið
3rd-person plural dýi dýði
imperative present
2nd-person singular dý
1st-person plural dýjum
2nd-person plural dýið

References
  • “dyja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “dujan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
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