eisa

See also: Eisa and EISA

English

Etymology

Okinawan エイサー

Noun

eisa (uncountable)

  1. A form of Okinawan folk dance.

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeiːsa/
  • Rhymes: -eiːsa

Noun

eisa f (genitive singular eisu, nominative plural eisur)

  1. embers

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *aisōną (to drive violently), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oyseh₂ye-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂ (to move, propel). Cognate with Latin īra (anger, rage).

Verb

eisa

  1. to dash forward, rush

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (fire, pyre).

Noun

eisa f

  1. glowing embers
    • 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson.
      Øx rýðsk – eisur vaxa,
      allmǫrg – loga hallir –
      hús brenna, gim geisar,
      góðmennit fellr – blóði.
      The axe is reddened with blood, the embers grow,
      the halls are engulfed,
      all houses are burning, the flame surges,
      and the good man falls.
Declension
Synonyms
Descendants
  • Icelandic: eisa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: eisa, eise; (dialectal) ese, hese
    • Norwegian Bokmål: eise
  • Swedish: (dialectal) ajsa
  • Scots: aes, es, aze

References

  • eisa1”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
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