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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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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: fága

References

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  • fága in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.