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See also: əkki
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ekki (uncountable)
- 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
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ekki m (genitive singular ekka, uncountable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of ekki (singular only) | ||
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m1s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ekki | ekkin |
accusative | ekka | ekkan |
dative | ekka | ekkanum |
genitive | ekka | ekkans |
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse ekki (“nothing”), from eitt (neuter of einn (“one”)) + negative suffix -gi, -ki.
Adverb
[edit]ekki
- 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.
- don't
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]ekki
Derived terms
[edit]- koma fyrir ekki (to be to no avail, to come to nothing)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse ekki, from Proto-Germanic *inkô.
Noun
[edit]ekki m (genitive singular ekka, nominative plural ekkar)
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Ili Turki
[edit]< 1 | 2 | 3 > |
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Cardinal : ekki | ||
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ẹk(k)i.
Numeral
[edit]ekki
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *eittki, *eittgi, equivalent to eitt (“one”) + -gi (“not”), literally “not one”. Originally neuter of engi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ekki (dative einugi, genitive einski)
Adverb
[edit]ekki
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- 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
[edit]ekki
References
[edit]- “ekki”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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