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fága

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See also: faga and -faga

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fága.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fága (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fágaði, supine fágað)

  1. to clean, to polish, to burnish [with accusative]
    Synonyms: fægja, pússa

Conjugation

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fága

  1. present subjunctive analytic of fág

Mutation

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Mutated forms of fága
radical lenition eclipsis
fága fhága bhfága

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *fēgōną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (joyful, pretty).

Verb

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fága

  1. to adorn, embellish
  2. to polish, clean
  3. to take care, (charge) of, to tend
  4. to cultivate
  5. (Germanic paganism) to worship

Conjugation

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Conjugation of fága — active (weak class 2)
infinitive fága
present participle fágandi
past participle fágaðr
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular fága fágaða fága fágaða
2nd person singular fágar fágaðir fágir fágaðir
3rd person singular fágar fágaði fági fágaði
1st person plural fágum fáguðum fágim fágaðim
2nd person plural fágið fáguðuð fágið fágaðið
3rd person plural fága fáguðu fági fágaði
imperative present
2nd person singular fága
1st person plural fágum
2nd person plural fágið
Conjugation of fága — mediopassive (weak class 2)
infinitive fágask
present participle fágandisk
past participle fágazk
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular fágumk fáguðumk fágumk fáguðumk
2nd person singular fágask fágaðisk fágisk fágaðisk
3rd person singular fágask fágaðisk fágisk fágaðisk
1st person plural fágumsk fáguðumsk fágimsk fágaðimsk
2nd person plural fágizk fáguðuzk fágizk fágaðizk
3rd person plural fágask fáguðusk fágisk fágaðisk
imperative present
2nd person singular fágask
1st person plural fágumsk
2nd person plural fágizk

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: fága

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fága”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 131; also available at the Internet Archive