ekki

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See also: əkki

English

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Noun

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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

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Faroese

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)

  1. (archaic) sorrow, sadness

Declension

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Declension of ekki (singular only)
m1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative ekki ekkin
accusative ekka ekkan
dative ekka ekkanum
genitive ekka ekkans

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Adverb

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ekki

  1. not
    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!
Synonyms
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  • (not): ei (dated), eigi (dated)
Derived terms
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Pronoun

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ekki

  1. (obsolete except in set phrases) nothing
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)

  1. sob, sobbing
  2. (archaic) sorrow, sadness
Declension
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Ili Turki

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Ili Turki cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ekki

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.

Numeral

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ekki

  1. two

Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)

  1. nothing

Adverb

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ekki

  1. not

Synonyms

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Descendants

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

Determiner

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ekki

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

References

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