gegnum

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Adverb

gegnum

1. through

Derived terms

• gegnum súrt og sætt
• sjá í gegnum fingur við
• í gegnum

Etymology 2

Verb

gegnum

1. first-person plural active present indicative of gegna
2. first-person plural active present subjunctive of gegna

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjej.num/

Adverb

ġeġnum

1. (poetic) straight, directly

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• í gegnum

Etymology

Dative of the adjective gegn (“right, fitting”), derived from the preposition gegn (“against”), from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“towards”).

Preposition

gegnum

1. through [with accusative]

Descendants

• Icelandic: gegnum
• Faroese: gjøgnum
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gjennom
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjennom
• Old Swedish: gēnom
  • Swedish: genom
• Danish: gennem

Further reading

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