ekki

See also: əkki

English

Noun

ekki (uncountable)

1. The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
   • 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52:

     Refurbishment was carried out during a ten-day blockade. It entailed replacing timber elements with ekki hardwood, and more than 300 metal straps or bolts with stainless steel components.

Anagrams

• kike

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛʰt͡ʃːɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛʰt͡ʃːɪ

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

m1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	ekki	ekkin
accusative	ekka	ekkan
dative	ekka	ekkanum
genitive	ekka	ekkans

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛhcɪ/

  Rhymes: -ɛhcɪ

• (as an adverb, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɪc(ː)ɪ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.

Adverb

ekki

1. not

   Synonyms: (dated) ei, (dated) eigi

   Ég er ekki Alda!

   I'm not Alda!

   Ég fer ekki í dag því ég fann ekki vegabréfið mitt.

   I'm not leaving today because I didn't find my passport.

2. don't

   Ekki fara!

   Don't go!

Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• ekki baun
• ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið
• vera ekki við eina fjölina felldur
• peningar vaxa ekki á trjám
• kemba ekki hærurnar

Pronoun

ekki

1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nominative/accusative neuter singular of enginn; nothing

Derived terms

• koma fyrir ekki (“to be to no avail, to come to nothing”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.

Noun

ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

2. sob, sobbing

   Synonyms: snökt n, ekkasog n

3. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

Declension of ekki (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ekki	ekkinn	ekkar	ekkarnir
accusative	ekka	ekkann	ekka	ekkana
dative	ekka	ekkanum	ekkum	ekkunum
genitive	ekka	ekkans	ekka	ekkanna

Ili Turki

Ili Turki cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ekki

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.

Numeral

ekki

1. two

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• etki

Etymology

From earlier *eittki, *eittgi, equivalent to eitt (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Originally neuter of engi.

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkkɪ/

Pronoun

ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

1. nothing

Adverb

ekki

1. not

Synonyms

• eigi
• ei
• ne

Descendants

• Icelandic: ekki
• Faroese: ikki
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ikkje; (dialectal) ikki, ikkj, itj
• Old Swedish: ikke
  • Swedish: icke
• Danish: ikke
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ikke
• → North Frisian: ek

Determiner

ekki

1. nominative neuter singular of engi
2. accusative neuter singular of engi

Further reading

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