eisa
English
Etymology
Okinawan エイサー
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeiːsa/
- Rhymes: -eiːsa
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”).
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *aidsǭ, *aisǭ, from *aidaz (“fire, pyre”).
Noun
eisa f
- 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.
- The axe is reddened with blood, the embers grow,
- 1000s, Unknown poem, Atli the Little, quoted in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson.
Declension
Declension of eisa (weak ōn-stem)
feminine | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | eisa | eisan | eisur | eisurnar |
accusative | eisu | eisuna | eisur | eisurnar |
dative | eisu | eisunni | eisum | eisunum |
genitive | eisu | eisunnar | eisna | eisnanna |
Synonyms
- (embers): eimyrja
Descendants
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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