ekki

See also: ikke, ikkje, and ikki

English

Noun

ekki (uncountable)

  1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
    • 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52:
      Refurbishment was carried out during a ten-day blockade. It entailed replacing timber elements with ekki hardwood, and more than 300 metal straps or bolts with stainless steel components.

Anagrams

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

  1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension
Declension of ekki (singular only)
m1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative ekki ekkin
accusative ekka ekkan
dative ekka ekkanum
genitive ekka ekkans

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/
    Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ
  • (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

  1. not
    Ég er ekki Alda!
    I'm not Alda!
    Ég fer ekki í dag því ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.
    I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.
  2. don't
    Ekki fara!
    Don't go!
Synonyms
  • (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)
Derived terms

Pronoun

ekki

  1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing
Derived terms
  • koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

  1. sob, sobbing
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness
Declension
declension of ekki
m-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ekki ekkinn ekkar ekkarnir
accusative ekka ekkann ekka ekkana
dative ekka ekkanum ekkum ekkunum
genitive ekka ekkans ekka ekkanna
Synonyms

Ili Turki
Ili Turki cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ekki

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.

Numeral

ekki

  1. two

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier *eittki, *eittgi, equivalent to eitt (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Originally neuter of engi.

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɛkkɪ/

Pronoun

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

  1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

  1. not

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Icelandic: ekki
  • Faroese: ikki
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje; (dialectal) ikki, ikkj, itj
  • Old Swedish: ikke
  • Danish: ikke
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ikke
  • → North Frisian: ek

Determiner

ekki

  1. nominative neuter singular of engi
  2. accusative neuter singular of engi

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