reikna

Icelandic

Etymology

From late Old Norse reikna, which is borrowed from Middle Low German rekenen, which is cognate to Dutch rekenen, English reckon and German rechnen.[1]

Verb

reikna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative reiknaði, supine reiknað)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to calculate, to compute

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • reikna eitthvað út (to calculate something, to work something out)
  • reiknast
  • reikna með einhverju (to expect something, to reckon on something)

References

  1. Torp, Alf (1919) “rekna”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard)

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