syfja

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse syfja, from Proto-Germanic *sufjōną.

Verb

syfja (weak declension: syfjaði – syfjað)

  1. (transitive, impersonal) to make sleepy, to cause sleepiness (only used impersonally)
    Mig syfjar.
    I feel sleepy. (lit. Makes me sleepy)

Noun

syfja f

  1. sleepiness

Synonyms

Old Norse

Etymology

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Verb

syfja

  1. (impersonal, transitive with accusative) to make sleepy
    Mik syfjar ― I grow sleepy (literally, “[It] makes me sleepy”)

Conjugation
Conjugation of syfja — impersonal, active (weak class 2)
infinitive syfja
past participle syfjaðr
indicative present past
3rd-person singular syfjar syfjaði
subjunctive present past
3rd-person singular syfir syfjaði

Descendants
  • Icelandic: syfja

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