gleyma

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gleyma (to be merry; to forget), from glaumr (whence Icelandic glaumur).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkleiːma]
    Rhymes: -eiːma

Verb

gleyma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gleymdi, supine gleymt)

  1. (transitive, with dative) to forget

Conjugation

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

From glaumr (merry noise).

Verb

gleyma

  1. to be merry
  2. to forget

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: gleyma
  • Faroese: gloyma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gløyma
  • Norwegian Bokmål: glømme
  • Danish: glemme
  • Swedish: glömma
  • Scanian: glimma

References

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