telgja

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᛚᚷᛁᛞᚨᛁ (talgidai) (third-person past singular), from Proto-Germanic *talgijaną. Related to talga (a cutting, carving), Old English telgor (branch, bough).

Verb

telgja

  1. to carve, to cut (wood or stone or metal)

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Icelandic: telgja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: telgja; (dialectal) tægje
  • Norwegian Bokmål: telgje
  • Old Swedish: tælghia

References

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