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feykja

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse feykja.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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feykja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative feykti, supine feykt)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to fly (from the wind)
  2. (transitive) to blow, blow off

Conjugation

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References

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Causative of fjúka (be blown about by the wind).

Verb

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feykja

  1. to blow, drive (away)

Descendants

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  • Faroese: foykja
  • Icelandic: feykja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: føykja
  • Swedish: föka

References

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