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deyfa

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse deyfa.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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deyfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative deyfði, supine deyft)

  1. to numb
  2. (medicine) to anesthetize

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From daufr (deaf).

Verb

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deyfa

  1. to make deaf, deafen

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: deyfa
  • Faroese: doyva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: døyva

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “deyfa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive