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eggja

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eggja.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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eggja (third person singular past indicative eggjaði, third person plural past indicative eggjaðu, supine eggjað)

  1. to sharpen
  2. to incite

Conjugation

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Conjugation of eggja (group v-30)
infinitive eggja
supine eggjað
participle (a6)1 eggjandi eggjaður
present past
first singular eggji eggjaði
second singular eggjar eggjaði
third singular eggjar eggjaði
plural eggja eggjaðu
imperative
singular eggja!
plural eggjið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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eggja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative eggjaði, supine eggjað)

  1. to incite or egg on
Conjugation
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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eggja n

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Etymology 3

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Noun

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eggja f

  1. indefinite genitive plural of egg

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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eggja (present tense eggjar, past tense eggja, past participle eggja, passive infinitive eggjast, present participle eggjande, imperative eggja/eggj)

  1. Alternative form of eggje

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From egg f (edge), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (edge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (sharp).

Verb

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eggja

  1. to incite, to egg on [with accusative ‘someone’ and genitive ‘to do something’]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: eggja
  • Faroese: eggja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: egga, egge, eggja, eggje; eggjast med
  • Norwegian Bokmål: egge
  • Middle English: eggen
  • Scots: agg

Further reading

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